Defective BRCA1 & BRCA2 gene

Update.... I'm booked into clinic end May and they will council me and assess what to do next and if I'm high risk enough to have it done.

I contacted the cousin who is still alive with BC and asked her about her BCRA testing as I heard she was pos, but she just lost her daughter to bowel cancer and hasn't responded!

The 2 cousins who died from BC were diagnosed late 40's, I'm only 41yrs old so think I'm being pro-active, hopefully early enough to prevent it. As so far our family hasn't had any sucess with surviving BC. Waiting on outcome of 3rd cous obviously.

I have no problem taking out uterus and ovaries, yeah no more periods!

The boobies are a little more scary, I scar and don't cope with pain well but have had 3 C-sec and other ops so sure I can get through.

Don't know anything about it but the dicky Dr said if have BCRA 1 that's bad??? So maybe he's wrong or maybe it's worse than B2?? B2 sounds terrible! I'm sure I'll learn more very soon.

Thanks for sharing this is how we learn from others and have a sounding board, I appreciate it.

Heidi