Poll for birth control and signs.

I have read that the largest percentage of women who get HER2/neu are pre-menopausal on birth control pills.
1. Were you gals on some type of birth control or HRT?
2. Pre or post menopausal?
3. Who wasn't????
4. Any on natural bioidentical hormones prior??? (I'm on estriol cream now but thats another message question.)
5. Did you have any type of indication that something wasn't normal like heavy periods, under an unusual amount of stress at the time or unusual health problems?

I had my ovaries removed from an endrometrious tumor 7 years prior (age 40) and was on HRT consisting of estradiol and testesterone until my lump. I knew something was up with my body. I started gaining uncontrollable weight in a matter of months. Ear infections that would not go away. They put me on antibiotics that almost killed me when the bad bacteria took over my colon. In the middle of all this my lump popped up out of no where. It was right under the skin and I had been doing thorough monthly exams so there was no mistaking that it popped up.

Let's share this end of the cancer puzzle. Sorry I know its long but I think its important to see a pattern to share with our friends and daughters. My 20 year old daughter voluntarily got off the birth control pills she was taking for acne.
Thanks.
PS I was going under the name of just Kathy but since there are others that share the name... I'll be going under KathySC for South Carolina from now on.