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HRT?
I was on HRT for 4 years post hysterectomy. I started the Glivec 4 months after the HRT and there were no problems. I had to come off the HRT because the GP likes it that way, for all patients not just me. The hot flushes were dreadful again for about 6 months, but have settled down now. Just for the rercord my PCR has been undetectable for two years now so the HRT certainly caused no problems.
Good luck with the flushes!!!
Des
You might want to consider a natural 'progesterone' cream rather than HRT which contains the pharmaceutical product called 'progestergen'
I have used natural progesterone cream for several years now and find it extremely effective.
There is a UK based website called progesterone link which is very helpful and imformative... see snip below:
'It was not until 1943 that Russell Marker made progesterone from the plant steroid diosgenin.
Originally he used the Mexican wild yam, Dioscorea villosa, but diosgenin has now been found in many plants, including fenugreek and the soya bean. Once it was found that progesterone could be made in bulk, the biochemists started converting it into all the other hormones we use today, cortisone, testosterone, oestrogen and the synthetic progestins (or progestogens). Again causing progesterone to be forgotten.
There is still much confusion in the minds of both the laity and the professions between progesterone on the one hand, and the progestins (or progestogens) and yam creams on the other .
Progesterone is made in our body from cholesterol, which is first broken down into pregnenolone and then into progesterone, which in turn can be broken down into the other hormones we need.
Some preparations available contain "natural progesterone" which has an identical molecule to that the body makes.
The progestins on the other hand have an altered molecular structure and the various so-called "yam creams" contain no progesterone at all.
The latter do contain diosgenin, which the body cannot, however, convert into progesterone.'
for more information on this subject click here
Sandy