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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hormones in birth control are designed to stop ovulation, so they come at a higher dose than in hormone replacement therapy. This increases your risk for breast, endometrium and ovarian cancers and it's usually not recommended. Hormone replacement therapy is specifically designed for perimenopause symptoms, and is considered safe for some, but not all women. Your doctor has to go over your family history of cancer and blood clots to determine if you can safely take it.
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You are not a doctor so stop giving medical advice as if you were. I have seen multiple doctors and they all advise that bc is safer than hrt bc hrt adds to your existing hormones and thus the hormone load is higher for peri than bc because bc takes over your hormones altogether. Get your facts straight before you go spreading disinformation online [/quote]

DP. What PP said is correct. And they did not give medical advice at all, they provided information. Correct information. Many, many doctors are not providing correct info when it comes to menopause.

So you should probably get your facts straight. [/quote]

It’s not correct information. 
You can’t compare the amount of hormone in bc to hrt because if you still get your period then your own hormones are in the mix also. That’s the point drs are making that you can’t seem to understand [/quote]

Nooo. We are talking about medicating perimenopause, which by definition, is when a woman's reproductive cycle is still active, with all the usual complement of natural hormones, albeit released in a progressively more haphazard fashion, leading up to menopause. If you don't even know what perimenopause is, you cannot contribute to this thread.

There are minipills, in the birth control category, that contain lower doses of hormones, but I'm not sure how they compare to HRT. Every patient needs to talk to their Gyn and discuss their cancer and blood clotting risks and the types of medication available to them. Also do your own research carefully. You DO NOT want cancer in 10 years.

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we are saying the same thing.

the way the pill works is it TAKES OVER your hormones. your hormones become moot. eg if the pill contains '4 estrogens and 4 progesterones' then YOU then contain 4 estrogens and 4 progesterones'. Whereas if you are making 2 estrogens and you take HRT it ADDS estrogen to your existing estrogen so if it adds 3 estrogens then you then contain 5 estrogens instead of 4. or unknown amount bc they cant control it. that's why drs recommend pill for peri vs hrt. [/quote]

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