High LDL as a result of chemo....

Hmmmm....Not sure as you don't say if you are hormone positive in the tumour department, but taking a bioidentical estrogen, isn't the best of thougths if you are.  I know when mine was borderline high I was instructed to start on an omega 3 fish oil as that is supposed to help in lowering it.  Hope you can back on level ground. It's frustrating and without estrogen we can be quick to tempers, but surely it will settle.  Try to give it time. 

I've been taking bioidentical hormones for years. It is great for keeping arterial plaque down as well as cholesterol. Breast cancer patients who take hormones survive as long as or LONGER than women who don't take hormones. My surgeon said she expected her patients taking hormones to recur but they haven't. She called the HRT-cancer connection "a perception, not a reality."

The idea that hormones feed hormone-positive cancer is a myth. Many women on the Amazon group have studied this and a lot of the long term survivors take them. You can check the studies on www.breastcancerchoices.org/hrt There must be twenty or more studies there that followed breast cancer patients taking HRT.

Even Suzanne Somers has been taking hormones for years and never took chemo either.

BTW, they don't recommend taking oral estrogens. Transdermal hormones (creams or patches) are best according to studies. I would be afraid to stop taking my hormones.

 Anom

I don't know what exact stage most of Amazon Group are. But most of them are ER+, PR+. Some have had positive nodes.

If you can get the full text of some of those research articles, they may say the exact status/ staging of those they followed.

This is news to me that chemo affects LDL cholesterol.  I was disappointed in my cholesterol results last december.  The cumlative number is all I can recall, and it was roughly the same as it was 3 years prior, pre bc.  At the time of the test, I had been eating flaxseed for breakfast almost daily for 6 months, and one of the purported benefits of eating flaxseed is lower LDL.  And tamoxifen helps keep cholesterol in check?  I stopped taking that in january and had a higher cholesterol reading in feb.  I knew taking oatmeal in the form of cookies was bound for failure, but I just had to test it for myself.  Now I have to wonder if absense of tamoxifen factored in.  I haven't read anything about the amazon group either.  This learning curve never ends, does it.