2 doctor appt updates

My cancer-cell removal appt thing went from next week to this week, ended up on the same day as my GYN appt. In the morning I went in for that, it was disgusting. Much worse than the just plain biopsy because you can just feel the skin hanging there, plus they cauterize you when the chunk of skin is out and you can smell you flesh.... totally gross. Plus the tugging on my neck as they stitched me up really just sat wrong with me, yucko. But other than that it went fine, I was still numb for a while after so it really didn't bug me until later in the day/night. At this point I keep getting tinges of pain where it feels like it is being cut right now, my mom thought maybe because it was so deep that maybe it hit a nerve area. Probably.

I had my GYN appt in the afternoon which went ok. I started back on birth control yesterday because she said the risk factors are always going to be better if you don't take any meds but outweighing the pros/cons I think I should be on it. So that's good. Then we talked about how since the last time I saw her over a year ago Ive seen MANY doctors. I showed her my records, my surgery from last year pictures,etc.

 There is now this breast cancer med that has been used recently for Endometriosis. It makes sense how she explained it because both of those diseases involve estrogen directly. While Lupron was more of a shut down everything kind of a drug since it was previously used as a prostate cancer drug, this is more of a block estrogen before it gets out into the body and that's it. Plus this is a daily pill which obviously you can stop whereas the Lupron was a monthly shot that you didn't have an option of going back on once you had it. The whole cancer drug thing scares me though, the side effects remind me of Lupron with all the bone issues, but it makes sense. Anything that is giving you no estrogen is going to disrupt your bones, that's all there is to it. The only thing that sucks is in doing my research of this drug many of the stories I hear its hard to tell if their lasting side effects were from this drug or from a former cancer drug due to most of patients are breast cancer patients that go on other cancer drugs first.  I'm trying to find out what I can because I don't want even more problems. Even my GYN said I seem to get every side effect you can get when I take something or I develop certain problems that are just more and more random.

BUT I was researching online, and I found a website thing that talks about natural ways to lower estrogen production. I liked that it wasn't just like oh avoid certain foods and exercise like a crazy person. It was more of a guide of what this chick did who had endo. She talked about how estrogen is very linked to the liver and how important it is to have a good liver. She said she had went to regular doctors who seemed focused on certain things and Chinese medicine people who were focused on the other spectrum but there was no middle ground so she tried stuff on her own. At first for herbal she was put on some of those ones that have plant estrogens in them that are supposed to help with lowering people estrogen(such as black cohash,etc.) She explained that the first couple weeks she felt great and that was due to the circulation or something it was helping but that after that her pain seemed worse than before.... which I felt was really interesting because my mom just started black cohash for female issues and she has been telling me the same thing about it how she feels worse now. This chick goes on to say that she ends up figuring out Chinese Bitters and Coptis really helped. They clear the liver more which helps with the estrogen stuff. She said all of her pains/health issues pretty much cleared up. While I believe that it helped and everything she said made total sense, I don't think it'll make my issues disappear altogether but I'm willing to try.

Its just very interesting to find all of these things out. No regular doctor will tell you typically go for herbals and not a lot of Chinese herbal people consider hormones at all believe or not so you may not be getting the right things. I'm excited for this and going to do it!