long time no posts...but have a question about hyster.

Ok I have been MIA for a while. A long while!

I am about halfway through what I like to call "chemo-light"....it's just like chemo but without the annoying side effects...my Herceptin treatments. The onco thought it would be a good idea for me to get it since I was HER2 +3.  A lot easier than the first round of chemos, except that my veins are shot from the Adriamyacin so they have to poke around a lot before the get anything...ouch!

So my question is for those who may have had a total hyster including ovaries removed...since that is what I am going to have done in May. They have found quite a number of reasons to remove it all, not including the cancer. The thing is that every male doctor I tell this to seems to react like, "they're going to remove your ovaries?! Oh, dear Lord!" as if this has never happened to a woman in her late 30s.

My gyn (who is a woman) says that as long as I take Fossomax and do weight bearing exercise (healthy diet, yadda, yadda) that I should be OK. So, has anyone out there had ovaries removed early and care to share your experience? I already had a taste of menopause when the chemo stopped everything for a year (been there done the hot flash).

ps: on another note, all this came about because it turn out that my Mom took DES while she was pregnant....I had no idea and just learned about all the effects of this from the CDC website. It makes me wonder if that is also what caused my BC, too.....

Miss you all!

Love,

Erin

 

Erin

I have had a hysterectomy but still have my overies. I was estrogen progesteren positive so I talked to my DR and she said we will either take iut the ovaries or out me on meds to stop the hormones. It makes no difference to me, just get rid of them would be fine.

Dear Erin...Have been thinking about you and wondering where you have been. I haven't had hysterectomy yet, but it has been recommended by genetics that I do...just keep putting it off. Anyway, I hit menopause like a brick wall during chemo (at 36) and never left it, so the parts are just spare at this point anyway. But my question would be, why not have it all out? I'll tell you, I had an aunt who had a partial hyseterectomy and later went through ovarian cancer. Why risk that? It makes no sense to me to keep ovaries if you're having your uterus removed. By the way...I've been in menopause for 12 years now, and dexascans say my bones are fine...as a matter of fact, they said on the last one that I have bone age equivalent to a 36-year-old (I'm almost 48 now), so I don't think lack of estrogen has hurt my bones at all. I don't do anything but drink my milk.

Good luck, and let us hear from you a bit more often, sweetie!

Love and hugs...
BEV

Thanks for your responses. And it is great to talk to you all again!

DH got a big sign for Christmas that says, "Still Plays with Trains" which he hung on the outside of the garage. (I did, however, say no when he had the "great" idea to re-pave our driveway with colored pavers in the pattern of railroad tracks. Good grief!)

Love,

Erin

Erin:

 

I started to reply, but it got longer and longer and started seriously resembling a new topic.  Please see my "bunch of stuff" post.  It's my reply-turned-topic. 

 

Miss you, kid,

 

Ellen