Anyone here been on hormone replacement therapy?

[jazzcat]

My gyn would like me to take hormones (estrogene, I suppose) as well because of the endometreosis but I don't want to.

Kirsten, if you have endometriosis you would not want to take estrogen - that is what makes it grow. Your gyn probably suggested progesterone - it helps to balance the estrogen and slow the growth of endo. Endo is the reason I had a hysterectomy and had my ovaries removed.

[krazyaboutkatz]

My mom was on a very low dose of HRT but she developed breast cancer and her doctor thinks that this was the cause. When I start needing to take something, I already told my doctor that I'm going the natural route. A co-worker of mine went through early menopause and she's almost over it. She also went the natural route and she took Estroven for it and also started taking flaxseed oil and black cohosh. They now make different formulas of Estroven and here's the link: http://estroven.com/. I've also heard that eating foods with soy in them will also help. Good luck.

[Kirsten]

Kirsten, if you have endometriosis you would not want to take estrogen - that is what makes it grow. Your gyn probably suggested progesterone - it helps to balance the estrogen and slow the growth of endo. Endo is the reason I had a hysterectomy and had my ovaries removed.

Well, yes, she was probably referring to progesterone then...

They really did the hysterectomy because of the endomentriosis? I also wanted to have it done when I had my left ovary removed last year, but they didn't. They left the right one because they wanted me to keep it for the homone production, and they even left the uterus - even though I wanted desperately to get rid of it! LOL

Kirsten