Cancer support thread 90 - still the best threads no one wants to be on

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Last one filled up quickly!

Thank you @Silkiebunny , I needed that reassurance x

@RedRosesPinkLilies I agree with @Silkiebunny There's so much about the menopause these days and the way they talk about it makes it sound like your life is over unless you take HRT - which is being handed out so easily, I wonder if they'll change that in future and be a bit more careful.

I think HRT is all very good, but there’s not much monitoring when we’re on it. I took it because of cardiovascular and bone health. But it is given out too easily, and especially since Covid, monitoring (for me), was non existent. Quick phone call and another prescription

I think Ca125 should be checked every few years in women of a certain age. We get mammograms, and smears. I know ovarian cancers are not as common, but they’re pretty lethal when you get them.

I was told HRT didn’t cause the cancer, but would have accelerated it. We do have to accept that information- otherwise it would be far too stressful to live with.

I always think they should do a mammogram of women in 40s they put on hrt. I was lucky I was never one it as cancer picked up at 48 and no previous mammos just by symptoms and no family history. I dislike the way on here the answer is always take hrt though I guess people want to be told that rather than exercise and diet if needed much easier to take a pill. And every issue under the sun is blamed on peri menopause.

I also dislike the inaccurate info given about cancer and try to correct it when I can like if you have pain you won't have breast cancer, you always get a lump with breast cancer etc, if you take hormone tablets you won't get breast cancer back and women that get it back haven't taken those tablets. Also if you exercise and eat various foods you get cancer immunity and everyone getting cancer is obese, lazy and just ate fast food or had a family history. Its just what they want to believe but I always correct it when it's given out as fact. Does kill threads though.

Thanks for the birthday wishes. She seems very happy and said the exam went well and she thought she knew 46/50 questions on the Oxford admission test and had an educated guess at other 4. So that sounds good. We have all just had champagne and birthday cake. Diet a bit out the window today.

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I wish someone had said that to me @RedRosesPinkLilies - my periods were slightly odd a year before I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer, but I put it down to the perimenopause too. If I'd gone straight away, maybe I would've still been diagnosed at 1A rather than 3A. I was also on HRT and in retrospect, I don't think I should ever have been put on it without more of a discussion given that I've had problems with my periods all my life. I told the nurse that I didn't think I was absorbing the progesterone because my cycles weren't syncing when they were supposed to, but nobody really picked that up. I was also told that it probably hadn't caused the cancer, but fed it.

I've actually found the menopause day today quite difficult because there just seems to be posts everywhere full of women, encouraging other women to take HRT and if we don't our brains and our bodies are going to shrivel up

I think it's luck of the clinician tho - when I started menopause, (hard and fast, none of this faffing with peri!) I spoke to my GP about HRT and she immediately said it wasn't an option because of my family history of ovarian and breast cancer

Course, I got BC anyway! But caught early

@Tilllly good Dr!
Think I shouldn’t have been on it either - family history endometriosis and I think I had it too - showed on the scan I had when I was diagnosed with cancer. But I wasn’t asked those questions
It is very much pushed.

When I first started out a a GP we gave HRT freely. Then the risks of heart disease and breast cancer became clearer and from around 1990 until recently GP were more cautious. Now the pendulum has swung the other way and women are demanding it. There will be a consequence to all this.

Good news! My skittles team won with me as their captain being the high scorer!! Go me!
first game since winter 21/22 and they lost every game without me 😎 I struggled to pick up the skittles though

@lucysmam Meadowhell!! You must be quite close to me…I haven’t been there in years but the hell part is very apt! I hope it isn’t too busy for you visit.

@ClashCityRocker all the best for today's results

Just got back from clinic.

Full metabolic response and no evidence of disease! I'm actually shell shocked and don't know how to be.

You guys have been lifesavers before, during and after treatment.

It all feels very surreal.

Well done Clash that's great news.

@ClashCityRocker that's amazing news, congratulations

That's great @ClashCityRocker - I remember feeling very flat after positive news about NED. It's an odd feeling!

Brilliant news @ClashCityRocker - now relax!

Congratulations @ClashCityRocker
I can imagine it’s a very strange feeling- but fabulous!!!

Woo @ClashCityRocker that is brilliant news. It will take a while for the joy and relief to seep through. Congratulations!

@ClashCityRocker fabulous! Take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief and see if you can give yourself a mental break from it all and do things you enjoy. The fear will nag at you eventually but try to leave that for another day if you can!

@ClashCityRocker that's amazing news! 🥳 I can imagine it feels surreal.

Congratulations @ClashCityRocker that’s fantastic news!

Congratulations@ClashCityRocker

I'm still waiting on my 2pm ish phone call appointment. Currently cooking tea & waiting on a colleague dropping something off for me. Wonder if it's going to come at the most awkward moment possible 🤔🙄

@ClashCityRocker