Take no nothin!

chico1

Have been on Femera for close to one month now with no new side effects other than nasty night sweats.....don't you feel sometimes like you're being tortured?   What I would give for a good nights sleep!  Anyhoo, have been so wanting to get off the estrogen suppressant train and start the progesterone cream, re:  Dr. John Lee's "What you doctor may not tell you about Breast Cancer". Will be going to a Naturopathic physician in the near future to do hormone testing etc.  I get so confused though, one minute your reading it's all about the progesterone, then the next we could be encouraging tumor growth with progesterone.  Here's the thing, as much as I am all about the natural way to go, I recently have been questioning why would we do anything at all.....isn't this just natures way?  My mother used to say, let our bodies do what they are meant to do.  Why are we messing with mother nature with pills, creams etc., just let the body do what it does naturally, and has been doing for a very long time.  Probably sounds somewhat juvenile, just sharing my thoughts.

Take care  - have learned so much from you all. 

1 cm, Stage 1, grade 2/3, her2neu+, SNB no lymph involvement. Weakly estrogen receptor+, PR-

LtotheK

I've thought this a lot.  A lot of doctors have said that the body just isn't set up to take hormone replacement at the natural time of menopause, for instance.  On the other hand, the body is a totally imperfect machine, hence, breast cancer!  One doctor described it as in the same family as the auto-immune diseases, the body doesn't know how to reject the bad breast cell growth.

All to say that even with natural supplements and lifestyle changes, we are altering what the body itself wishes to do, and that's what we do to stay alive.

mathteacher

Yes, we are always trying to make up for Mother Nature's shortcomings.

It may mean taking vitamin C, getting a joint replacement, getting a denture, taking a hormone or medicine.

rreynolds1

I don't think Mother Nature gets that women are living longer.  I think that's the problem with our hormone loss....we are without them for many more years than our ancesters did because we live into our 80s and 90s.  I also think that our environment exposes us to estrogen that our aging bodies cannot balance without progesterone.  Also, we are generally heavier when we get older so more estrogen can be stored.  So many reasons to get hormone help. 

Roseann

mollyann

Roseann, that's so true. We're like old cars. We need the parts replaced to run smoothly or we'll end up in the junkyard.