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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not finished the podcast yet but as someone with DCIS, I found it kind of frustrating that it seemed to totally ignore that not everyone can take hormones. I was totally planning to take hormones but now feel like I can't. There are a lot of people who have had DCIS or breast cancer so it is not like this is super rare. Apologies if this was later in the podcast and I missed it. [/quote]

Yeah, there are some posters here who chime in as though you’re an idiot for not going the hormone route.[/quote]

Because you are. Because statistically, the risk presented to most women by heart disease so vastly exceeds the risk of breast cancer across the population that advising based on a false risk to the average woman is steeped in bad science and lies.

Who is saying that woman with any form of BC must be on hormonal medication? No one.[/quote]

I'm the DCIS poster. I would love to take hormones but can't (I'm on tamoxifen). Hearing about all the great things HRT does was depressing to me. I am more worried about osteoporosis than breast cancer so I'm running and weight training but I wish the fact that some women just can't take HRT wasn't ignored. There are a lot of us.[/quote]

You find it depressing? I mean I am sorry you have health issues but you cannot take joy in improvement of science?  You can’t be at least okay that countless other women will helped? Maybe it could help a woman you are close to? You can take it as hope that one day these findings will be used and studied further to help you?

I’m continually stunned by how difficult it is for some people to see outside themselvesx[/quote]

There's nothing wrong with someone wanting acknowledgment of their existence in the context of something that really affects their daily lives/health.

I'm continually stunned by how difficult it is for some people to have empathy with others.[/quote]

The default position, for decades, has been to say no HRT because of the potential for breast cancer. That is the PP’s position. By opening up other possibilities, PP is not suddenly being ignored. [/quote]

PP is just asking for one mention in a very long and important article that some women can't take HRT because of whatever reason.

I am someone who does take HRT and who also has a different condition that makes most exercise regimes impossible for me, and after decades of seeing health articles with headlines along the lines of "an exercise that anyone can do" or "yoga is for everyone" (except for people like me who don't seem to count), well let's just say I get why PP is feeling frustrated. Just as those of us who are on HRT always felt frustrated at articles about how evil it is with no mention of how some women really need the relief it provides. [/quote]

I feel for women who think this could help and can’t access it. I hope Pp can listen to Dr Streichers podcast and focus on the non-hormonal aids, if appropriate. [/quote]

Thank you. I'm not the PP but I had breast cancer at 40 and my treatments led to total hysterectomy at 42, with no option for HRT (like many women, my BC was highly estrogen positive and no one on my oncology team will allow it.) I just wish the focus on menopause right now was not focused so exclusively on HRT, and that more research was being done on other treatments. As grateful as I am that the BC is gone for now, I hate feeling a decade older than I am, with no real options.[/quote]

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