HRT if Mom have breast cancer?

I am only 32 years old and am possibly have a Total Hysterectomy including Ovaries. I don't want to go into menopause at this age because I know there are robustness risk, but I feel the surgery is needed. My mom had breast cancer so I am at an increased risk for it. So would I know how to take HRT if I do have my ovaries removed? Would it be much different than truly keeping the ovaries and my natural hormones? I will discuss this with my Dr, but I am trying to bring in a decision before I budge back to see him next week and I don't want to increase my risk of cancer. Thank you for your give a hand!

Answers:    Short term use of HRT has in truth been shown to help women far more than endanger them. Short possession is defined as less than 10 years.

but you should talk this over beside your doctor. Let him/her know your concerns and maybe consider a "transitional" therapy situation...slowly lessening the dosage off over time.

Also, birth control pills have commonly been successfully used in younger women who hold experienced surgically induced menopause. That might be another avenue to explore..
Hve you had children yet/do you plan to? If you still want to have children, and this is something you have a feeling strongly about, wait until after. I also recommend that you read "Pretty Is What Changes" by Jessica Queller. It is intensely informative, a book written by a woman whose mother had breast and ovarian cancer, and went through the declaration of whether or not to have a total mastectomy and hysterectomy. (The author had in actual fact wrote a piece on the subject in the New York Times, and was certainly a writer on Gilmore Girls and other popular shows.) I would keep my ovaries if I was you. The risk of breast cancer is sort of giant for you and I would avoid HRT at all costs because it has be shown to increase breast cancer risk and, if I remember correctly, actually cause heart problems within the long run.

Good luck, sweetie!.
If you have a total hysterectomy...including both ovaries I believe that your body will go into menopause. Menopause channel the stop of menses. With out ovaries you have no menses any longer. HRT will aid they symptoms of menopause.

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