I'm sorry that you've received the news that you have. I was diagnosed with an invasive carcinoma that's hormone positive two weeks ago and I'm scheduled for surgery within a fortnight. I have twins sitting their final exams. One knows, because he overheard me talking about it on the telephone, but the other one doesn't know. I've decided not to tell him, because he's far more sensitive than his twin and his exams go on for another fortnight. I have been on HRTs and visited the doctor who prescribed them and presented her with the reports regarding my diagnosis. She is weaning me off oestrogen and progesterone, with the view to me being off both of them within three months. My surgeon had also mentioned that I needed to stop the HRTs, but he said that I shouldn't be stopping them cold turkey, but rather that I needed to be weaned off them.
