!!** Vaginal atrophy, urethral problems, Hormone administration Estriol, Progesterone

[R.B.]

Donna

The link says this "She also should not receive estradiol, of course. ". Do you maybe mean estroil ? One for your onc to answer maybe?


Hopeful

This is what the link says about arimidex. There are lots of different opinions. I have no idea what is right wrong best or otherwise, but you could always print the link out and take it along to see what your onc says.

" Certainly a person with an estrogen-receptor-positive tumor is at much higher risk with estradiol treatment than an estrogen-receptor-negative tumor. However, both types of tumors have an elevated risk of recurrence with estradiol treatment.

My thoughts are that a patient with a history of estrogen-receptor-positive tumor should DEFINITELY be on Arimidex for life! She also should not receive estradiol, of course. The other hormones (except DHEA) are fine. The downside for women at risk of breast cancer is that DHEA can convert to estrogen and has a stimulatory effect on breast cells, particularly when estrogen is low. Close watch on overall hormone balance levels is required, and testing is recommended every 6 months. In terms of estrogen receptor negative, I would say that Arimidex is probably not a must. "

[Donna]

Dear R.B.,

Yep, I misspoke, it was estriol that I was taking.

My oncologist gave me a prescription for estrogen vaginal suppositories and I haven't discussed it with her yet, will at the next appointment, but the information I found was that since I am on Arimidex now I should not be taking any sort of estrogen - period. It's too bad because it was really helping me.

Best to you,

Donna

[R.B.]

Donna,

If you have not you might like to check the link as that is the point it is differentiating between oestrogens and saying some are OK with arimidex. I cannot say if they are right or wrong, but knowledge is power and at least you will know you have checked all the options.

Good luck

RB

[SoCalGal]

Hi RB,
I was wondering why you do not have a profile, etc. You sure seem to have a lot of valuable information and I wondered what your dx was. Flori

[Adriana Mangus]

Hi Fiori: Your dx is quite similar than mine, except skin mets. I have mets to rt lung and breast bone. Doing ok for now. Xeloda did not work for me, so am back on navelbine. According to onc I have not yet become resistant to herceptin, -based on the tumor markers readings- that's why we both decided to go back to navelbine. I will see him next in August. Anxiously waiting....

Sending you a positive vibes and a big hug.

[R.B.]

Flori (curious George ?)

I have posted this before but no dx. Male, non sufferer, somebody near died of BC.

I have been researching for a book I am writing/ almost written on fats omega threes and sixes, and often come across bits of interest.

It makes me feel better to feel I am contributing. Visiting the board provides a distraction from endless reading. A need to communicate. I suppose one day we could be talking to computers to satisfy our need to connect. Would I know in a few years if your were a computer?.

I have my complex motives divers circumstance questions and experience that brings me to where I am as we all do. It include the odd rail at the jobsworth syndrome that institutions engender, a sense of frustration etc etc. and so it has always been and so it will always be - except unless we get a bit better at avoiding out organisational weaknesses and get more of the Star Trek ethos we may not survive as a species, and certainly are at risk of going backwards.

I am passionate about diet and the more I read the more dumbfounded I am at the body's complexity and sophistication, and the more glaring evident it is that diet has to be a risk reduction starting point.

I am constantly learning and adapting myself and have my cookie moments but they do get to taste less good they more I work at my diet.

AND A bit of a meander. I am smarting from one of those encounters with bureaucratic pass the parcel preferably from their perspective into a dark cabinet in the basement where it will never need to be retrieved. The consequence is that it will involve ten times as much work as would dealing with it now, which matters to me if not somebody who is paid no matter what.......... And it is already four years which leaves me momentarily somewhere between rage and tears at the stupidity and injustice of it all - all of which is as to nothing to what you go all through.........


RB

[R.B.]

An informative link on estriol etc.

As ever please discuss such issues with your medical advisors.

http://healthyimmunity.com/Hormone-H...harmacies.html

RB