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Grocery list: check. Pint-sized handcuffs: check. at Lesbian Dad — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:22:25 +0000

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By: Shelli

Shelli — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:09:30 +0000

Right, and BEFORE there was HRT, what did women do for centuries and centuries?

nada. zip zilch. Just fanned themselves more.

What is the big deal with actually doing something? Isn’t it just a naturally occurring event in life?

Just curious.

And um, Mazal Tov.

By: Iron Lesbian

Iron Lesbian — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:59:56 +0000

I’ve had very good success with Effexor (not for menopause but for depression) and I’ve had an estrogen-related cancer (uterine, still have all my parts thanks to a great GYN-oncologist). They aren’t sure if my ovaries still work or not (I suspect not) and the Effexor has kept mood swings etc to a minimum. Anyway, if you don’t get the relief you need from other therapies the Effexor might be worth a try.

By: Trista

Trista — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:14:52 +0000

My mom was on hormone therapy until my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer that was fed by HER hormone therapy. So my mom weaned off the E. My mom had her uterus and ovaries removed when she was 43 for… I don’t remember what. Something unnecessary as it turned out. Ooops!

Anyway, it’s my mom’s 53rd birthday tonight and I’ll ask her what she’s doing, or what she did when she went off the HRT…

By: Liza

Liza — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:45:14 +0000

Congratulations, friend!

I have decided to interpret your official launch into the next phase of hormonal life as a sign that estrogenic changes are in the air, therefore this should be the first day of my last menstrual cycle for quite some time. Entirely different reason, I hope, but for me a temporarily similar outcome.

Good luck to us both!

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:06:14 +0000

L,D I can only say that after this is through, I’ll be a bit more able to join you in that dance, being a number of hormonal steps closer to your kind. You lead; I lead; whichever. I’ll be fine either way, and probably not so sweaty.

By: LookyDaddy

LookyDaddy — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:10:13 +0000

Pardon me while I pause to do the I’m-so-happy-I’m-a-man dance.

Still dancing.

Almost done.

And twist, and dip,

aaaaaaaand, done.

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:50:01 +0000

Ah, Mrs.Micah, Mrs.Micah. My heart goes out to you.

Don’t know what I’d have done with a pinpointed cause for my own mother’s terminal breast cancer, but I imagine it has got to be an ocean’s worth of salt in the wound to know what you all know now. My heart goes out to you.

And all’s I was worrying about was the supposedly “safe” alternative to HRT (hormone replacement therapy), because after knowing about my mom, the doc suggested the route breast cancer patients were directed to: Effexor, an SSRI anti-depressant. (Here’s the letter to the drug company, w/ petition signatures & personal testimony.)

By: Mrs.Micah

Mrs.Micah — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:46:51 +0000

Doctors connected my mom’s now-terminal cancer to her use of an estrogen therapy. So yeah, I wouldn’t recommend the drugs. It may not happen for all women, but my mom was one too many for me!