Warning Issued for Birth-Control Patch

Warning Issued for Birth-Control Patch - Yahoo! News

Women do keep having problems with their intake of hormones. Whether for birth control or for HRT.

Although, admittedly, "The Pill" is great birth control (and I speak from past experience), but, obviously, with definite risks. There still is no easy, really good, answer for birth control

The following is plain scary for me...

"New published studies show that women using the patch absorb about 50 percent more estrogen than with the pill, said Dr. Leslie Miller, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington.

When women take the pill, the medication is absorbed into the bloodstream through the digestive tract. In the process, about half of the estrogen dose is lost."

Background to that, I was taking HRT pills, on the advice of my doctor; then, on the advice of my next doctor, started using the HRT patch and was told the patch would be safer because the hormones went straight into the blood, bypassing the digestive tract.

Next chapter, I came down with breast cancer, with a tumor that was, and I quote my pathology report, a "very strong receptor of estrogen." Not merely just "strong", but "very strong." My tumor was nuts for estrogen.

After full cancer treatment I am now taking Tamoxifen, an estrogen-blocker. Which, ironically, means I have less estrogen now than I did prior to HRT.

To repeat myself, in conclusion...

Women do keep having problems with their intake of hormones. Whether for birth control or for HRT.

When are the experts going to get this right?!