Would you take hormones if you were me? (info in post)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here- I don’t drink which raises the risk as well. Does anyone here who wont do hormones drink? Not trying to be contrarian but just a valid point my doctor raised.

Crickets

Hormones replacement is pumped into your body 24/7. Most older women who drink don't drink that much or often due to negative after effects. I neither drink nor will I take hrt. My mother died from ovarian cancer and, as another pp noted, there are other ways to get better sleep. Hrt, with your risk profile, is worse than the risk of drink a glass of wine a few nights a week.

Drinking is much worse it’s just normalized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HRT helped me so much. In your case, I would try HRT but get a breast MRI in 6 months. Mammogram won't help you with dense tissue. If it is clear, i would feel better about not developing hormone+ cancer. I am not a doctor so discuss with yours.

My doctor said ultrasound is fine to do between mammogram. I don’t want the contrast

If you have extreme dense breasts, MRI is now standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HRT helped me so much. In your case, I would try HRT but get a breast MRI in 6 months. Mammogram won't help you with dense tissue. If it is clear, i would feel better about not developing hormone+ cancer. I am not a doctor so discuss with yours.

My doctor said ultrasound is fine to do between mammogram. I don’t want the contrast
If you have extreme dense breasts, MRI is now standard.

Breast specialist said ultrasound.

[Anonymous]

+1 to this

[Anonymous]

In your shoes, i would focus very hard on seeing if there were other ways to improve sleep and give that a try for a few months before going to hormones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In your shoes, i would focus very hard on seeing if there were other ways to improve sleep and give that a try for a few months before going to hormones.

Gyn recommends for osteopenia

[Anonymous]

I think you need an RX calcium before HRT at this point. And if you have never been on HRT, 54 is prety late to start. Especially if you went into menopause in your earlier 50s...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With that breast cancer risk? Absolutely no way. You are in the one group that shouldn’t even consider it (so am I).

Gyn said risk is an extra 2/1000 people

I am the pp you are responding to. I am watching a relative succumb to BC right now and I would not add to that risk by 1/1000000. Things add up when you are already at an elevated risk.

On of my best friends died of breast cancer at 52. So horrific.

[Anonymous]

Op, in your shoe, I would try Wegovy or Ozempic.
Overweight is a risk for many types of cancer,.
This may improve sleep once you lose the lbs.
So, no hormones! How about WW? They also can provide the meds to support weight loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, in your shoe, I would try Wegovy or Ozempic.
Overweight is a risk for many types of cancer,.
This may improve sleep once you lose the lbs.
So, no hormones! How about WW? They also can provide the meds to support weight loss.

It doesn’t sound like she’s overweight. She was 100 pounds and gained 20 pounds so she’s 120? Unless she’s extremely short she’s probably not overweight.

It’s my understanding that the risk is about .4% if you start it before menopause, and waiting to start hormones in menopause the risk is even less.

I do think people on this thread and in general greatly underestimate the risk of alcohol from breast cancer. There’s been a flood of studies in the past year and more coming that show even having a couple drinks a week significantly raises your risk. Alcohol is a major carcinogen we just have been conditioned to think it’s not.

[Anonymous]

So
Much misinformation on this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you need an RX calcium before HRT at this point. And if you have never been on HRT, 54 is prety late to start. Especially if you went into menopause in your earlier 50s...

I have been in menopause for a month - OP

[Anonymous]

Ask your doctor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, in your shoe, I would try Wegovy or Ozempic.
Overweight is a risk for many types of cancer,.
This may improve sleep once you lose the lbs.
So, no hormones! How about WW? They also can provide the meds to support weight loss.

It doesn’t sound like she’s overweight. She was 100 pounds and gained 20 pounds so she’s 120? Unless she’s extremely short she’s probably not overweight.

It’s my understanding that the risk is about .4% if you start it before menopause, and waiting to start hormones in menopause the risk is even less.

I do think people on this thread and in general greatly underestimate the risk of alcohol from breast cancer. There’s been a flood of studies in the past year and more coming that show even having a couple drinks a week significantly raises your risk. Alcohol is a major carcinogen we just have been conditioned to think it’s not.

This is OP- I am definitely not overweight. I was thin my entire life (100-105) and then gained 15lbs last few years. I am 5'5"
but many "thin" women have bone density issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So
Much misinformation on this thread

Against HRT or for?