Apr 08
17
Benign Lumps in Breast Another Hormone Therapy Side Effect
Hormone therapy, or HRT, given professionaly in medical offices for decades as a means to help women going through menopause of perimenopause to ease their symptoms of the change of life, and for a variety of other medical reasons, has demonstrated to not be the most safe thing in the world, and many have stopped using it because of serious links to heart problems as well as breast cancer.Â
That was the women who were on the hormone therapy that combined two estrogens, estrogen itself and progestin. Women who were taking estrogen only hormone treatments were thought to be pretty much side effect free until it was discovered that they are much more likely to get benign (non cancerous) breast lumps from taking it. Now, they’re benign when found but the concern here is that they are thought to be the first early signs of possible breast cancer formation years later, and that is what is causing the concern.Â
The studies involved women on estrogen only therapy, and tracked them for seven years, but the benign breast lumps could take years more to develop into problems that lead to fuel the breast cancer development. Women who have had hystorectomies are the only women who can take the estrogen only therapy (I’m not exaclty sure why, perhaps because they cannot take the progesting for unknown reasons).Â
Now that HRT has proven to almost more of a threat to health than a help, many physicians have stopped recommending it to patients they may have otherwise recommended it to for non life threatening problems.Â
Let’s face it, menopause symptoms are merely a nuisance to most women, and there are not very many valid medical reasons to take it, so it may be best for women to resort to natural means of controlling their hormones and making the drop in estrogen more bearable with age. One way is by controlling the diet and exercising, which can naturally balance hormones like no medication can – plus it makes you feel great!Â
