To be fed up with the mixed messages about HRT

[Cinammoncake]

Today's being that compounded HRT (ebHRT) is unsafe. It's not surprising that women are reluctant to go on HRT. I feel like one minute you're told no it's fine go on it, then things like this which cast doubt.

@Cinammoncake “Today's news saying HRT twice as likely to cause breast cancer as thought”

This kind of reporting by the media must frustrate the researchers no end. What it actually is saying is the risk went from say 2% to 4%.

Also, breast cancer is usually a very oestrogen based cancer. Those people who have late menopause are also at higher risk of breast cancer.
Can’t really win!

I also read the study and I see that the actual additional risk is actually much smaller than the headlines would have you believe.

Despite my mother having had BC I will continue with it. I'm not entirely happy with the additional risk but I have the choice between a life on HRT or being virtually crippled by severe joint pain. I'd rather have years of active life and face the possibility that I may develop cancer than spend the next 30 years in significant pain with my mobility curtailed.

I was so scared too of getting cancer then it happens and you have to deal with it
Plenty of my friends take it hopefully most will be okay again just keep up the breast checks and regular mammagrams early detection is vital

I have a mirena IUCD which delivers local progesterone and a very low dose oestrogen patch. I’m hopeful that this constitutes a very low additional risk for breast cancer.

This is the combination that most of my friends have been offered.

The oestrogen switched off my hot flushes almost instantaneously. It was like a miracle.

I started hrt on Thursday and woke to those headlines!

I’m sticking with it as I am not overweight, do drink, but below the weekly guidelines, and I am the only wage-earner in my family of four. I need a degree of mental sharpness to do my job and I was starting to feel lethargic and tired from insomnia. I also felt flat, as though my zest for life had just gone.

I have been given two pumps of oestrogel and one Utrogestan 100mg every night.