Thread: Birth control drugs and breast cancer

( This is interesting.  Here in the UK, The Pill has been rather out of favour for a long time, and as far as I am aware, doctors don't like prescribing once you go into your 40s. , )

( You know that saying where hind sight is 20 - 20 vision.  There are several things, I would have done different if I had known better at the time. OC pills is obviously the big one - but - at this point in the scheme of things, I can't undo the past. \(I took OC pills between age 36-45.\)  \(Although I do have a desire to confront some of these doctors and really blast them.\) ...

( I never took birth control pills or any type of estrogen replacement yet here I am. My sister did take bc pills and continues on low \(lower since I got bc\) dose estrogen. She's 7 years older then me and so far, so good for her. , )

( I took the contraceptive pill for most of my fertile life with the exception of two pregnancies and breast feeding. When I hit 40 I asked my GP should I give up - he advised me to keep taking it until I was 50 and then give up and I would probably go straight into menopause. I was dx with BC at 45 - no one ever told me to give up the pill !!!  After dx I sat with the pack in my hand wondering what to do, I decided myself that it was...