SO the World Health Organisation now reckons women shouldn’t touch booze til they hit Menopause .... I’ve got news for them! THAT WON’T HAPPEN!https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/no-booze-until-menopause-who-s-alcohol-guidance-sparks-female-backlash-20210618-p582e4.htmlWhat do you reckon?

This is not a socially acceptable thing to say but when i enjoy a nice piece of cake i think, well why not, its not like im scared ill get cancer anymore! Been there done that!If i get given one more rock, crystal, candle if im told not to eat sugar and to drink only juice (8 times a day please)Think ill scream.I didnt do anything special to get cancer. Nor did any of you. We just rolled a shit dice one day. Certainly makes you think what you dont want in your life.Im seeing a psychologist next week due yo my need to yell Fuck this when im pissed off things arent as i want them. Perhaps i should drink...

Ive always been a social drinker only. I dont drink at home at all and post treatment plan to limit to special events. Yeah its a risk factor but actually when i went through chemo i drank a lot of water and i found hydrating properly really good and im keeping that - seems slightly in conflict with drinking.I think bc is probably related to hormones. I had a lot of hormone issues and i suspect was oestrogen dominant. In tge 5 years before bc i went off all birth control and emotionally it was a roller coaster. Maybe this contributed to stress or ability to manage stress? Why does one person get it over others, who knows but cancer isnt a modern day problem, mummified egyptians have been found with cancer i read somewhere. Modern day stressor are probably different and could contribute but any number of things could. Why do our cells grow out of control and not get killed off in some people. I have friends who have alway binge drank and they are seemingly fine I think its a kind of silver lining that i now am choosing different things, managing stress is one of them. I knew my lifestyle was hurting me but i felt stuck. Could lifestyle have affected my hormones, yes i think so.

Well I have always enjoyed a drink or 2. Sometimes I have over indulged and sometimes I have none. I don't believe alcohol caused my bc. I believe stress caused my bc. I had the perfect stress storm about 18 months pre bc. So now, post my active treatment I love a great glass of wine with a meal.

As far as I understand, it’s an extension of thinking - if you shouldn’t drink when pregnant (generally accepted as wise), you shouldn’t drink any time when you could be pregnant! As someone said, it smacks a bit of treating a woman purely as a vessel for motherhood (handmaids unite!). A bit of proof reading might have helped!

I wondered about the WHO advice and whether it is about the disease risk for women themselves rather than potential damage to babies. I drank regularly for most of my life and I accept it increased my cancer risk, along with smoking earlier in life, not having children, taking the pill for 20 years and HRT for the last two before I got cancer. And being overweight. Oestrogen overload all of it. I knew I was taking risks though and did those things anyway. I never think “why me?” I think “obviously me” I would have been surprised not to get it at some point!!

WHO says no booze til you hit Menopause ..... AS IF!

27 Replies

Halla
Member
5 years ago
I drank too regularly all my life, but since cancer I haven’t wanted to. I’m really happy about that! It’s been the only concrete reason to stop and now I’ve broken the habit. So, thanks cancer 🙏🏻
Afraser
Member
5 years ago
Retracted today. ‘Badly written, too
many ideas lumped together in one sentence’. That’s why you need proof readers!!
arpie
Member
5 years ago
I'm with you on that, @MicheleR - particularly with my husband's cancer, which was first diagnosed in 2010 and again in Jan this year ... an incredibly fit triathlete without an ounce of fat on him - never smoked or drank and did not eat bad foods, cutting every bit of fat off any meat .... so it was even more unfair when he had to have most of his stomach removed! But he went back to internationally competitive World Championship Triathlons, winning 5 more races ..... even after being diagnosed as a diabetic as well ......

Yep, shit sure happens. Yeah, I was told the sugar thing & to drink BORAX of all things!! We had cancer FFS - we weren't STUPID!!

To be honest, I wasn't aware of 'that much' stress before my diagnosis .... we were just cruising along life's highway ..... then I hit the brick wall! grrr
iserbrown
Member
5 years ago
Keep venting!
Common denominator for a lot of us is stress. I had stress in bucketloads prior!
It's a bitch but........
MicheleR
Member
5 years ago
This is not a socially acceptable thing to say but when i enjoy a nice piece of cake i think, well why not, its not like im scared ill get cancer anymore! Been there done that!

If i get given one more rock, crystal, candle if im told not to eat sugar and to drink only juice (8 times a day please)

Think ill scream.

I didnt do anything special to get cancer. Nor did any of you. We just rolled a shit dice one day. Certainly makes you think what you dont want in your life.

Im seeing a psychologist next week due yo my need to yell Fuck this when im pissed off things arent as i want them. Perhaps i should drink...
arpie
Member
5 years ago
arpie
Member
5 years ago
LOL @June1952 I am Just about to crack a beer ...... If I open a wine bottle - I keep going ..... earlier in the year with all the stress of Hubby's diagnosis, I was hitting the Bundy & Cokes - went thru a few bottles ...... now weaned off it to 1 beer with dinner! ;) Tho my brother & wife are arriving on Wed for the night, so should get some vino in .....
June1952
Member
5 years ago
I have a red on the go as I type !!!!! 🍷
arpie
Member
5 years ago
Welcome back @kezmusc .... yep, it’s driven me to drink again! LOL
kezmusc
Member
5 years ago
WOW! ...WHO...

I've been awol for a while and this is the first thing I read. LOL......
I think the WHO could use a bit more kale and tumeric :) Geez, where's my wine? ;)