Menopause and spacers

Cervical cancer post treatment and side effects
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Hi, first time I have posted. I recently finished chemotherapy  radiotherapy and brachytherapy in February. I have been having menopausal symptoms. I'm 37. I have been advised to go on HRT. How soon after treatment finished did anyone go on HRT? Does anyone have any good natural hrt replacement experience? 

also I'm wondering if I am using the spacers correctly. My CNS said that I may bleed etc after but I don't feel anything? How often do you use the spacers? How long for? 


thanks so much for any help 

leanne xx 

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Hi, what are spacers? I'm on bioidentical hormones after taking the synthetic kind for 9 months and not a high enough dose. I feel better than I've done for months. 

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Hi Leanne, 

Do you mean dilators? I have to use mine 3 times a week and was told I'd have to use them up to 2 years. I might only need them for a year. I will know I suppose when I have internal checks. 

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I started hrt 2 to 3 weeks after finishing brachy. The CN nurse said they'd recommend 3 months to wait but I couldn't deal with the symptoms - hot flushes, no sleep, moods and night sweats. I wanted to tear the faces off my children and Bury my husband in the back garden after blungening him to death with a heavy object just for breathing. After a week or so I felt so much better. However, I do really recommen the bioidentical ones and seeking an hrt specialist privately to prescribe a more suitable does and testosterone gel (currently not prescribed on nhs for menapause) 

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Hi Leanne,

If you mean dialators, I am 17 months out of treatment and use mine once a week. If I dont, I can notice the difference. In the first 6 months I probably used them twice a week. 

x Maria

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I'm 18 months post treatment & like Maria I still have to use them. I've been using mine once a week, but I'm gonna try to start doing at least 2 if I can, at my last appointment they said had some scar tissue. For the first 6 months I was told to use them everyday for 20 minutes, which I did. But I think that was a little excessive but I have a jerk guy doctor lol. I think it something we might have to use forever, I definitely notice a difference when I get lazy with them.