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I had horrible hot flashes. About every half hour. It seemed that I could barely sleep. I suffered with them for about 5 years.
I went to an endocrinologist and he prescribed progesterone 200 mg @ day. This worked amazingly well. Now I only have one or two, usually in the morning right after I wake up.
There are certain risks (mostly unknown as there have been no studies done with this hormone as a treatment for cancer patients) associated with taking these hormones, however I decided it was worth it to get my life back.
Breast cancer survivors who have had chemo tend to have more aggressive & frequent flashes than normal women.
I am ER negative - and theoretically the neg means that the cancer isn't induced by female hormones. That is why they consented to let me take this hormone.
Another positive side-effect of this hormone is that it seemed to sweep away the last vestiges of chemo brain that I was suffering from. And I now have normal sleeps as well.
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