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August Update

Short :  After a few muddled months, I am  now well and enjoying life. Longer : In Februry, March and most of April  I pottered along happily with only minor side effects from the  estrogen blocking pill aimed at reducing my odds of a recurrence of breast cancer. Then in mid April I got bad diarrhea .  Luckily I was still spending most of  my time in my well-equipped eerie on the 8th floor.   Over the next 2 months I saw my medical oncologist, my GP ( several times) , had lots of blood tests ,  saw my naturopath,  and finally got into a GP  who specialises in hormones.  The diarrhea stopped after I stopped taking the estrogen-blocking pill, but  the blood tests showed that my thyroid was way out of balance again. When I went to the hormone GP I took all my  blood tests since 2015 that were relevant to my dodgy thyroid.  After reviewing them , she agreed with my naturopath's treatment  over the past years....