Feeling I need to vent my frustrations.
From the moment I found a lump, to getting anyone to hear me, through the journey to now where I’m on OS & AI and the side effects drs keep dismissing EVERYTHING I say, my concerns chalked up to “there, there” or “are you stressed? Feeling depressed” and back to the 1800’s with women histerics and it’s just her emotions and psychological issue of womanhood!
Sigh, ever feel like that?
Most recently I started the nat-letrozole to the OS and my blood pressure skyrocketed to 172/100. My BP prior and all the past year has remained a steady 120/76. I take my BP 12 hours after the nat-letrozole and poof!
Told my dr and he said, “there is no evidence that shows the AI or OS cause high blood pressure or mortality to heart attack or stroke and you are probably just stressed”
I did my research and oh yeah, studies prove multiple studies prove mortality. Part to the estrogen removed which contribute but studies say and medical articles say when on these drugs we must be carefully monitored and even drug changes. Yet my dr claims, “there, there, your just stressed” attitude - denying the research I find.
How is it we are to be cared for when no one listens?
I mean think about it, same day if starting it bp goes berserk. I mean like a hammer doesn’t itself cause pain to a human. It’s just a hammer. But if you are using that hammer to hammer in a nail, you miss the nail and hit your thumb… It was most likely the hammer that hurt your thumb, but oh no, there is no scientific research showing evidence hammers cause thumb pain! (Sarcasm)
Oh and another study , recent study says even today, depending on her age, there is 47% - 60% likely a woman will be dismissed of her complaints vs 10% men. A woman is more likely to be prescribed antidepressants when complaining of pains where drs belief she is stressed, emotional, or needs psychological care not pain killers or investigating to her pain. That study showed also it takes women up to 8 years before a dr will examine her and discover she has endometriosis! 8 years she suffers!
Yet here in the cancer battle of our lives, with drugs known to exchange one organ to save another, she is ignored.
Is it just me? I’m so frustrated and feel like giving up because … Well, why bother- no one listening anyway.
You know, I think I’m dismissed so much I dismiss myself. When I found the lump, I dismissed it as nothing, I’m just imagining things, it’s probably just a swollen gland and will go down when I’m not so stressed. But… I wasn’t stressed at all, I dismissed me like everyone else does. How sad is that?
Anyway, just wondered if anyone else feels it too.
Thanks for listening
frankly if Letrozol is effecting you bp to that extent, I’d question if it’s the right med for you too!
… it’s all so perfunctory isn’t it?
