"Treat the disease, you win some, you lose some. Treat the patient, you always win."
~Patch Adams~



Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Interesting reading-----

On a study done to see if stopping hormone replacement therapy (the study was done with women taking synthetic hormones, not bioidentical) would reduce the incidence of having to be recalled for a second mammogram (synthetic hormones increase the density of the breast tissue). Click here to read the results. On a personal note, I had very lumpy, fibrocystic breasts since puberty, so much so that I started mammograms at 30 (and God, did they hurt!). Once I started the BHRT, within about 4 weeks I noticed that the lumpiness in my breasts disappeared, it was the strangest feeling when I did self exams----but it's one more benefit of bioidentical hormones.

1 comment:

  1. I don't have lumpy breasts anymore, but since starting on bios I have breast tenderness.

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