Anonymous wrote:it is SO FRUSTRATING.
I dont want to be an old twisted hag when i could have had magical youth potion. But my dr says evidence still strongly points to cancer risk. who is right? what to believe? halp.

Have you reached the official 12 month mark? If you have not, take it from my experience - DO NOT DO IT. The estrogen was enough to kick start some horrendous, 2-3 week periods. After 3 months, my normal GYN (not the person who gave me the HRT), put me on low-dose BCP and it worked quite well, actually.

OP, find another doctor - one who understands menopause. https://www.letstalkmenopause.org/healthcare-providers

Shocking as it might sound, menopause which affects 100% of 50% of the population, is an elective course of study in medical school.

But even more shocking, there is not a single medical school which teaches nutrition science in an age when chronic diet related illnesses are crippling millions of people in the population.

DO NOT ASSUME YOUR DOCTOR IS AN EXPERT AT ANYTHING! Be your own advocate, and feel free to fire a doctor who blows off your concerns about anything.

The AMA has worked for decades to delude Americans in to thinking doctor knows best, when in fact many doctors are barely competent and are in if for the luxury cars and boats etc.

My mom had a hysterectomy mid 50s went on hormones and then had BC mid-sixties - her drs felt there was a connection but this was 20 years ago not sure if things have changed since then.

Your doctor is wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/magazine/menopause-hot-flashes-hormone-therapy.html

Anonymous wrote:So far three (THREE) separate docs, obgyn, online doc for BC and my PCP have agreed that I should be fine on BC all the way up until menses have truly and well stopped for like a year.

So I just stay on the BC.

op - he was fine with BC. bc he says it takes over your existing hormones and doesn't add to them so you dont get the overage that creates the risk.

Because your dr doesn't get kickbacks from HRT companies.

Anonymous wrote:Because your doctor is not up on current practices!! HRT is critical for women who go into early menopause/ovarian failure. The outcomes for heart attacks and bone density are really bad if younger women don’t go on it. I’ve been on HRT for 13 years and if I saw a doctor who told me to stop taking it, I would look for another doctor immediately. The cancer risk for HRT is overblown.

Leave it to the crappy medical establishment for women to needlessly suffer.

You are in a different situation, if you went into early menopause; it’s a medical necessity, and the gain/need outweighs any risk.

My mom could never go on HRT because she has a clotting disorder. I never went on it because I was diagnosed with BC at 51. The thing about family history is tricky, because most people with BC have no family history (I had zero). And there seems to be a possible increased risk for lobular BC with HRT, which is the kind I was diagnosed with (although to be fair, it’s rare). I had no idea I was at risk for ILC but my DD will never be able to take HRT.

Anonymous wrote:it is SO FRUSTRATING.
I dont want to be an old twisted hag when i could have had magical youth potion. But my dr says evidence still strongly points to cancer risk. who is right? what to believe? halp.

I'm going with your doctor on this one...

Anonymous wrote:If you don't have cancer risk in your family, it really is doctor dependent on how they chose to read the info. I do my research and the two I have gone to, when I present my case for HRT, have no problem with it. I started at 49.

But I also go to younger women rather than any age male.

NP. I have always found male doctors to be more compassionate than female doctors, in any specialty. YMMV

My doc says I'm not ready for HRT because my cycle is regular. Because I am showing signs of perimenopause, she recommends low dose BC with estrogen. Later I will be a candidate for HRT.

Because your doctor is not up on current practices!! HRT is critical for women who go into early menopause/ovarian failure. The outcomes for heart attacks and bone density are really bad if younger women don’t go on it. I’ve been on HRT for 13 years and if I saw a doctor who told me to stop taking it, I would look for another doctor immediately. The cancer risk for HRT is overblown.

Leave it to the crappy medical establishment for women to needlessly suffer.

Maybe he is worried about stroke. A lot of the population has unknown Factor V.

So far three (THREE) separate docs, obgyn, online doc for BC and my PCP have agreed that I should be fine on BC all the way up until menses have truly and well stopped for like a year.

So I just stay on the BC.

If you don't have cancer risk in your family, it really is doctor dependent on how they chose to read the info. I do my research and the two I have gone to, when I present my case for HRT, have no problem with it. I started at 49.

But I also go to younger women rather than any age male.

it is SO FRUSTRATING.
I dont want to be an old twisted hag when i could have had magical youth potion. But my dr says evidence still strongly points to cancer risk. who is right? what to believe? halp.