Progestin Only Pill Ok to take?

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clevelandgirl99
clevelandgirl99 Member Posts: 53
edited June 2014 in High Risk for Breast Cancer

I am 45.  I just started taking the POP (progestin only pill) so I can avoid having my period on vacation this June.  I will only take it from now until the end of June.  My only concern is I believe I have a cyst in my right breast.  I already have an appointment with my "breast" Doctor scheduled for mid June.  I have never been diagnosed with cancer, but fall into the high risk category.  I've had findings on mamograms and mri's, but the 1 (mri guided) biopsy they performed came back clear.  (I was scheduled for 2 others but the day I was in for the procedure the dr. changed his mind)  I know I had a cyst in my breast before and am assuming it has just gotten a bit bigger.  Would there be any concern taking the POP if I have a cyst?

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited May 2013

    Since 60% of women have fibrocystic breasts I'm sure a big percentage of the of childbearing age are taking all different versions of the pill.



    In what way are you high risk?

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  • clevelandgirl99
    clevelandgirl99 Member Posts: 53
    edited May 2013

    Good point Dallas! I am high risk because my mom had breast cancer, started my period early, had my 1st child at age 30.  I think even having a benign biopsy increased it slightly too.

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited May 2013

    Just wondered. With your mom you are. A lot of women don't understand what does or doesn't make you high risk and think they are when they are not. Was just going to try to reassure you if that was the case.

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  • SusanWadiaElls
    SusanWadiaElls Member Posts: 1
    edited May 2013

    Last November, the Austrian geneticist,  Josef Penninger,  was given a $7.4 million Innovators Award by the U.S. Dept of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program because of his 2010 discovery on  how the progestin in all birth control drugs, in some fertility drugs and in some HRT drugs can initiate breast cancer tumors and accellerate the duplication of existing cancer cells in the breast. He showed that progestin  activates a specific protein that causes this nasty chain of events.  See volume  1 on birth control drugs  in the Busting Breast Cancer Ebook Series... that discusses this and other research linking breast cancer with progestin drugs.

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  • sundust
    sundust Member Posts: 17
    edited May 2013

    I would not take it. I took the mini-pill (POP) for about 1 year and had an ASCUS pap (with no apparent cause based on tests). I stopped taking it. It went back to normal.

    I took the mini-pill again a year or so later, stayed on it for 2 years, and got an ovarian cyst and gallbladder sludge. I was diagnosed with a borderline mucinous carcinoma 6 months after going off of it. It's taken me more than three years to get my body back to normal (sludge gone, cancer treated with lumpectomy/radiation followed by supplement/diet protocol).

    Granted, I react badly to most medicines, but it's still a risk. I think some of the HRT studies actually showed that progestin/estrogen was worse than estrogen alone. Progestin is an artificial molecule that the body does NOT process the same way as natural progesterone. Natural progesterone (what your body makes, and possibly bioidenticals) is healthy for healthy people. Progestin is NOT. See SusanWadiaElls' post as well.

    Do not take it. Enjoy your vacation anyway.

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