my mother is onthis hormone for breast canser is it a good medicine?
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Yes, it is a good drug it has been used since the mid 80's. there are some side effect but they are in low %. every drug has some side effects.  \nYour mother is most likely ER positive. It is an estrogen receptor blocker. Cancer cells need to eat and estrogen is what they eat so this drugs cuts off their food supply and they die. That is a simple description. Talk to your mothers doctor he can draw you a pictures.
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Being an alternative medicinal therapist i have to go through many types of training and I can tell you right now that it IS possible to get breast cancer at that age.Do you think you have it? Do you check your breast every week for lumps, you should you know.If you are on the pill then this will increase the risk of breast cancer.The only way to avoid cancer of any kind is to eat plenty of foods that contain antioxidants and supplements like Vitamin E these you can buy at a health shop. \nAny more problems contact me on alternative@medicine123.wanadoo.co.uk\n\nMrs G J Jones (BSYA-SEN)
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U should get a prescription from an Oncologist. \nThe aromatase inhibitors have certain side effects for which your grandmother needs to be evaluated. They can cause bone thinning, so u should also give calcium supplements along with a weekly tablet called Osteophos.\nOtherwise they are available in Medical stores.\nBut please consult with u r treating doctor and start.
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Your mother should be very careful with this.  She possibly may need to go on to medication.  My mother (who is overweight) always experienced blood clots in her legs.  She would treat them as they came/went (with heat and massage) until one traveled up her leg, into her heart (where it loged itself) and pieces began breaking off...one to her brain causing a stroke and one to her lung.  She now take warafin (blood thinners) and is going for weight loss surgery so she won't have to take them anymore.  There is a definite relation between weight and the occurance of clots.\nPlease get your mom to go to her MD...prevention is the best medicine!!  Let me tell you...teaching my mom the alphabet, how to read and write (after the stroke) was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
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It's a tough call...HRT vs. natural alternatives.  There is a lot of controversy surrounding HRT in terms of heart attack, stroke and cancer associated with taking hormones.  However women find that it takes care of their symptoms efficiently and quickly rather than the slower route through natural alternatives which, some women have felt little to no noticeable relief.  I market natural products to Naturopathic Doctors and have worked with them quite extensively.  My suggestion would be to speak with an ND (Naturopthaic Doctor), but at the same time work with your GP as well.  The key is to try and find a balance between nutrition and medicine that will work with your body to help get you through this stage of life with as little discomfort as possible, but most importantly, get you through without any serious side effects.  I am also in my forties, and still stuck with all the working parts, but am starting to experience the onset of that lovely phase, so I sympathize.  Please look at both alternatives and find a balance...protect yourself.  Good luck to you.
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It is common and very treatable.  Certainly tell your mom.  If it is the size it bothers you it is for sure time to be removed.  There are many over the counter remedies.  DON"T WORRY!
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no,she will never.stop worries,it can be easily healed even without surgery.its great that you love your mother so much,keep that up till the end.show this answer to your mom & i am sure that she will treat herself for the sake of the ammount you love her.i pray to Allah almighty to cure your mom soon.
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Bad news:  this is not curable\nGood news:  if the cancer mets are restricted to her bones only, she may have many years left.  Zometa (zoledronic acid) is definitely a good option, as is Taxotere (very well tolerated chemotherapy).  She DEFINITELY needs to have  Her-2 neu test to see if she would benefit from Herceptin (they should be able to perform this test on the tissue they have from her previous surgery, or on new tissue if she has another biopsy).  \n\nAlso, if she is getting her period regularly, her doctor may advise ovarian ablation or lupron therapy, since she is PR +.  \n\nGood luck on the PET scan.
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Prolactin is an hormone that makes mothers breast to grow and produce milk while they're breast feeding the baby, it only appears if you are pregnant, so it doesn't affect the menstrual cycle. The hormones that affect your cycle are estrogen and progesterone and some others. The connection I found with tsh is in case of Hypothyroidism, the blood test will show a increased level of prolactin.
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Maybe it's a hormonal imbalance, that would be nice in some ways! big boobs I'd love to have but it could be harmful too, what if too much estrogen caused something else to go wrong?  Better ask the doctor about it and get your levels tested.
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I think you should go to your doctor and ask her or him these questions.\nNot everyone reacts the same to hormones; so I think it's a bit risky to ask this question here...
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Well who ever thinks diet is going to help that problem is off their rocker!!!! My friend is going through the ssme thing. Her mother just had a reduction for the same reason and she feels wonderful now physically and mentally. Insurance will cover that because of it being a health issue. Honey have it done I wouldn't think twice about it. Boobs are nice but they can be just as nice and make you feel better being smaller!!! Wish you all the best!
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No honey. Breast growth is directly related to hormones and puberty.  Puberty hormones start the process of breast growth in developing body, in  preparation for motherhood.  Pregnancy also causes breast growth (maturation of ducts and milk glands) to prepare for breastfeeding.  Whether you have large or small breasts depends on only one thing: what you inherited genetically from your mother. Nothing else will affect or change it except plastic surgery.
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hello, I will try to help a little if I can. A lump in the breast doesn't means that it will be always something malignant. There are a few advices I can give for your mom: she should go to the nearest clinic or hospital and take a full medical examination. Normal procedures in these case involves a interview (when, how, where did she find the lump, etc.), a physical examination and other tests if needed. I would go for a mamography, which is like taking a picture of the breast to figured out what it is. Sometimes it is also adviced to make a biopsy of the lump using local anesthesia.\nIf it where malignant it is good that it was detected early, so there are alternatives in treatment from medical (with chemotherapy and or radiotherapy) to surgical. Surgical treatment can imply from local extraction of the mass to more radical, depending on the circumstances. Do not feel afraid that she would die because of a lump, first of all she have to take a medical check up and then valuate her options. Anyway, now a days the treatment of malignant diseases has improve a lot regarding to quality of life, management of pain, and medical and surgical treatment.\nHave faith, and give strenght and love to your mom, that she would appreciate it and regain selfconfidence. God Bless u 2.
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no, cos my mom takes evening primrose ad sometimes calcium pills with glucosamine. so i guess its alright, since my moms been taking it for about a year already and shes still alive and kicking. =)
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Two months ago, I had given this answer to your Q.\nWhat were the points you didn't like or you didn't understand?\nWhat are your criteria for a "good" answer?\nI am posting again the answer (copy and paste) and I am waiting for your feedback. Why do you refer especially to the GNC company?\nAre you aware of some studies that they did using aminoacids that could potentially influence growth?\nWere they OTC supplements?\nPlease, let us know and in the mean while have another look to my posting.\nRegards\n\n\nHuman growth hormone is administered in the cure of diseases and not in order to make people taller !\nEvenmore, it is a prescription only medicine acting in a small gland situated in our brain. I think they are used also for the dopping. \nTell me now : would you ever trust to give your child such a medicine that could potentially interact with the surrounding field?\nThen you are talking also about OTC products ; they are food supplements I suppose. I don't know what this kind of products are, but I have to say that I had a bad experience from food supplements sold via networking marketing, last spring.\nSometimes they are not so innocent as they look like; they can cause allergies.\nWhy don't you think to adopt a healthier lifestyle? This will help more effectively in your child's case. And it is also more natural, it has no adverse effects, as medicines do .\nI want to add just this : control obesity! Obese children don't get tall and there is also the scientific explanation for this.\nI think that the answer given previously, be happy with yourself, with what you are was wisdom.\n\n\nI have to add that:\n\n1st: It is not just growth hormone that controls growth; there are also other hormones, like TSH(thyroid stimulating hormone), ACTH(adrenocorticotropic hormone), LH(luteinizing hormone) and FSH(follicle stimulating hormone).\nThe small gland situated in our brain, is called pituitary gland.\n\n2nd: You are talking about injections: they are administered just if a GH deficiency is diagnosed; this involves hospitalizing the child because GH is produced in bursts. This means that we can't have a result from a single measurement of this hormone in a blood sample. We need the result of the measurements of a 24 hour period.\nFrom what you say, your child has not been diagnosed from that.\n\nYour child can find more information , articles suitable for the public and educate himself on the GH issue from the site of the Foundation for human growth. It is a patients organisation.\nhttp://www.hgfound.org/growth.html\nEducating himself, he will understand that he really doesn't need any injections of growth hormone in order to get taller and - hopefully - he will adopt a healthier lifestyle in order to grow well.\nOr - if he prefers - he can navigate in the site of wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/growth_hormone\nTake care on scams! A big research project has started this year in the US that will elucidate some obscure points in the area of food supplements that are on sale for this purpose. \n\nKaterina
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I pray that your mother's results will be ok, and that she does well. The reason I am writing is because you reminded me of the time I was waiting on my Mother's biopsy, she has breast cancer. My advice for you is to expect the worse, although we are surely not aiming for it, this way whichever way the result goes you will not be affected. Also try not to have any expectations before you understand the full picture.\nI hope all goes well. My prayers and thoughts are with you.