Hormone Pharmacist

Hormones: Clear and Simple

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Breast Cancer and HRT

Breast Cancer and HRT

As I sit down to compose this post on Breast Cancer and hormone replacement therapy, I have a lot of thoughts swimming around in my mind about the women I know, women who are close to me and whom I care deeply about. Women with whom I have a long history and many years of experiences and memories. I am thinking about my 49-year-old sister, Amy, and my 23 year-old daughter-in-law, Shirese, my 75-year-old mom, Peg and my 63-year-old wife, Mary.

Any one of the wonderful, loving and beautiful women in my life has a 12% risk of developing breast cancer throughout her lifetime. I am thanking God that none of them have been diagnosed with breast cancer and I pray that none of them will.
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Hot Flashes – Let Them Use Ice Water

Hot Flashes – Let Them Use Ice Water

Are you AFRAID of hormone replacement therapy?

A woman called my pharmacy the other day, complaining of symptoms of menopause – night sweats, insomnia, vaginal issues, irritability and the dreaded hot flashes. She’s a mess! She wants her doctor to do something about the menopause monster that is messing up her life, but she’s afraid. She’s heard that hormone replacement therapy can help with all that stuff, BUT she’s read on the internet that hormones cause breast cancer, heart attacks, blood clots or a bunch of other frightening side effects.

Isn’t hormone replacement therapy DANGEROUS?

Instead of “a woman called my pharmacy the other day,” I should have said that several women called . . . several women every week . . . sometimes several every day . . . worried about all the dangers of the hormone replacement therapy they are either considering, are currently taking or have stopped taking.
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