Hi All
I hope you are keeping well.
I am just wondering what people are having in relation to menopause symptoms. I’m 49 and have had tests and well into menopause now. I have Mirena coil which I was told to remove at the start of my treatment but I didn’t,
My cancer was her2+ hormone -
So I don’t mind having the Mirena and gives a little progesterone.
I am so sore down below, have used some over the counter pessaries and cream but feel like I can’t carry on in this pain.
I am waiting for my GP to contact my oncologist to see if he will let me have some oestrogen cream, I know they don’t like breast cancer patients having it but quite frankly Its a very small risk, and not like the HRT patches or tablets.
Any advice would be great, xx
Wish I could offer advice.
My last period was before my first chemo last August. I’d suffered since I first started having them with suspected endometriosis that turned out to be adenomyosis instead (could still be endo but hasn’t bothered me since last year so can’t be bothered to investigate further).
I think my girly bits just said “girl’s been through enough already let’s not bother her during chemo, she’s got enough going on”.
I think I get classed as having started menopause if I haven’t had a period in a year. I never thought I’d start menopause at 44 (45 now) but I’m not sad about it. Never had babies, don’t want any biological ones so it worked for me.
Maybe you could get your bc nurse to contact your oncologist and speed it up a bit? If ever I need anything quickly I have an awesome bc nurse who does magic.
If you don’t you could maybe contact your oncologist’s secretary and ask for a consultation. It can be so slow trying to get two doctors to communicate, sometimes it helps if you be the go-between and nudge one.
I hope they get back to you swiftly, you don’t need to be faffing with that stuff with everything else going on.
I keep hearing nurses saying the studies about HRT or creams and stuff causing cancer are bs but I’d rather hear that kind of thing from the scientists.
@lilly123 sorry to hear you are suffering. It’s the last thing we need.
We are in a similar boat, her2+ but as I mentioned before the oncologist insisted I have the mirena removed last October, that was a dark day. It was probably around a month after my last chemo that I started to notice a change in my body. I’m going to be speaking to the oncologist tomorrow prior to my Phesgo injection but that’ll be over the phone and focus on my recent bone scan (a little nervous about that but trying to be positive). I might see if I can chat to one of the BC nurses when I’m in. I’ve been told I’m now post menopause but apart from the odd hot flash, dry eyes etc I don’t seem to have had the rage… yet.
I’ll post any solutions they advise and am keen to hear what you are advised xx
Hi everyone, i did read something about local estrogen for menopause and how given its low dose and local even women that have/had BC can have it or something along those lines. I think it was in the previous edition of Menopause Matters magazine but not entirely sure xx
Hope it helps somewhat, take care everyone xx
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I’ve just been on my Onc call and I mentioned it to her. She said lubrication and moisturiser are two different things (every day’s a school day). So something like love honey water based lubrication for intimacy and something like yes moisturiser for regular day to day v health. She told me if it gets worse to let her know as they can prescribe something with a little hormone in it, as recent studies have found it isn’t linked with cancer.
She said it’s something that’s not talked about much, people see it as a taboo subject but if it affected men it would be a different story!