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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not take it -- but then I was diagnosed with premenopausal breast cancer.  Chemo put me straight into menopause and it was awful.  I ended up going on a low-dose of Effexor, since HRT is off-limits for breast cancer patients, and the Effexor helped a lot.

I know women who take HRT and women who do not.   Sadly, if you want to learn more about managing menopause -- however you choose to do it -- you will probably need to raise the issue with your doc.  Physicians could be so much more helpful and proactive about menopause than they are ....[/quote]

I'm surprised, and happy, to hear this.  Back in the "old days" (the  early 2000's) doctors pushed hormones whether you wanted or needed them or not - and other women made you feel stupid and unhealthy if you refused hormones.  Docs cited research that had not been completed, and once it had, showing HRT to be dangerous in many ways, they quickly took patients off of HRT.  It was a panicked mess, unless you hadn't gone on HRT in the first place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/health/us-stops-estrogen-study-citing-risk-of-stroke.html?searchResultPosition=1 
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/471025

Keep in mind that the major influencers of MDs are drug sales reps and insurance agents.  Whatever makes or costs money for docs is what most influences the health care you get.[/quote]

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