How long on hormone blocker medication

Yes Dr Toohey is my all time favourite doctor!

@Julez1958 ok, might be a different one 😄😄. But I think the younger ones tend to have a different perspective on the matter, which I like. 

Hi @FLClover , I reckon it’s the same one !
Her first name is close to mine.
I remember you and I had the same radiation oncologist who was at Light House but is now at Genesis in Darlinghurst - I found her much more
 relateable even though she is still a fair bit younger than me.
My husband loved her too.
Hope you are keeping well.
Or as I like to say these days “ as well as can be expected all things considered”.
I have booked a holiday in North Queensland for August and am pretty excited - it’s my first interstate trip ( if you don’t count Canberra) since pre Covid.
I know that’s slightly off topic .🌺

@Julez1958 your oncologist sounds a lot like mine, who said the same thing to me about chemo and AIs, and is also quite young 🤔. She was at the Kinghorn. 

@Julez1958 I am not always positive, but I remind myself to keep positive. :) 

I said similar to my male breast surgeon, asking him what would he advise his mother to do.  I had already decided what surgery I would have as I was offered either bilateral lumpectomies or bilateral mastectomy.  His answer confirmed what I had already decided was the best for me.  I hope you continue to keep well enough while on hormone therapy. 

@Keeping_positive1
love it!!
👏👏👏

also I love your name ❤️

Good one @Keeping_positive1
So true.

@Julez1958 how about the manogram?  

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One day when I was as having a mammogram I grumpily said to the operator “ I bet they don’t test for testicular cancer like this”.
I always ask my Doctors “ what would you go if you were me”?
With varying degrees of success.
I remember my post mastectomy consult with my oncologist who told me that chemotherapy would not be any use to me but hormone therapy was really important.
She said “ I can send you the literature on it if you are interested”.
I had in fact read most of the literature! 
She is only in her 30s so she can’t possibly relate to a 64 year old post menopausal woman so I said to her “ if I was your mum what would you recommend”?
She said at that stage definately 5 years of AIs “maybe more.”
I have faith in her and all of my team .
Even though in my grumpier moments I may think if breast cancer affected men in the same way it affected women more work  would have been done on combatting the side effects of hormone therapy.