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Hi, folks,
Rozbud, I really appreciated your comments. I was especially interested to learn of the Parkinson's connection which I had not heard about before. Of course the decision has to be personal for every one, but unless there is some pressing KNOWN danger, I come out on the side NOT to take the ovaries out IF AND ONLY IF you know for certain you have her-2 and are permited regular access to Herceptin. If you are HER-2 negative and KNOW for CERTAIN that you have serious estrogen driven tendencies...you might consider it, but for HER-2 folks, even ER positive one... I wouldn't.
What I would do instead, is be sure my weight was in a normal range (as fat cells produce estrogen) and take Herceptin on some sort of regular basis and monitor my CA 27/29 tumor markers with the serial Serum Her-2 markers and be scanned regularly. If a problem does crop up that extra herceptin can't regress, and seems to be estrogen -related, then, by all means re-visit the ovary removal, if you must, but postpone it as long as possible. It is just that so many effects of the estrogen are good for our hearts, bones, teeth, not to mention BRAIN FUNCTION and natural good LOOKS hee hee hee. Also, as deep sound sleep is so vital to rebuild oneself repeatedly after the Herceptin immuno response each time, I really worry about doing anything that could potentially disrupt the sleep / wake cycle. But again, it is a very personal choice. This is only my opinion and remember folks, most of my data and research comes from the study of ER-PR- HER-2 +++. Becky, please see the e-mails I sent you last night and earlier today for more detailed information in this regard. FYI, GINA
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