JessicaV
05-13-2019, 07:01 PM
Hi all, for a number of years I have intermittently been having distressing problems with a bladder prolapse plus uterine grade 3+prolapse causing massive discomfort when walking etc UTIs, etc.
I saw a gynaecologist some years ago who just wanted to do a hysterectomy. I have had the tests/done the research to know I would also need a bladder repair, and this scares me because of all the problems women have if mesh is used, and also the problems they have if mesh is not used. And that a hysterectomy does not stop this sort of pelvic organs collapse in fact it can speed up/worsen the process.
Have been advised by my lovely women's physiotherapist that a pessary would be really helpful for me, and could put me into a much better state physically and emotionally, but that it is best with a vaginal estrogen cream twice weekly plus lubrication cream to prevent vaginal wall damage/ infections/ discharge problems, (the cream is recommended by the manufacturers of the pessaries.)
My GP, when asked to prescribe the cream, told me that estrogen cream is dangerous for breast cancer survivors. When I questioned this since my cancer was hormonal-receptor-negative, she wants to pass the buck by sending me on to a gynaecologist. I am afraid this will just be a repeat experience of being pressured into a hysterectomy. I am 67 yers old, was starting to get fit etc and to like my body and being alive even if only one breast, but now feel that my body is really falling apart, and this really upsets me.
Does anyone know of any research about estrogen creams for non-hormonal-receptor breast cancer survivors?
Or have any personal experience of the same?
I saw a gynaecologist some years ago who just wanted to do a hysterectomy. I have had the tests/done the research to know I would also need a bladder repair, and this scares me because of all the problems women have if mesh is used, and also the problems they have if mesh is not used. And that a hysterectomy does not stop this sort of pelvic organs collapse in fact it can speed up/worsen the process.
Have been advised by my lovely women's physiotherapist that a pessary would be really helpful for me, and could put me into a much better state physically and emotionally, but that it is best with a vaginal estrogen cream twice weekly plus lubrication cream to prevent vaginal wall damage/ infections/ discharge problems, (the cream is recommended by the manufacturers of the pessaries.)
My GP, when asked to prescribe the cream, told me that estrogen cream is dangerous for breast cancer survivors. When I questioned this since my cancer was hormonal-receptor-negative, she wants to pass the buck by sending me on to a gynaecologist. I am afraid this will just be a repeat experience of being pressured into a hysterectomy. I am 67 yers old, was starting to get fit etc and to like my body and being alive even if only one breast, but now feel that my body is really falling apart, and this really upsets me.
Does anyone know of any research about estrogen creams for non-hormonal-receptor breast cancer survivors?
Or have any personal experience of the same?