Please look into functional medicine doctors. There are natural alternatives to the synthetic estrogen blockers. Those are miserable side effects to have to deal with.

Also ask your doctor about the affect that estrogen blockers have on your heart. After reading several studies, since estrogen keeps your heart healthier, which blocker is harder on your heart? I know that Letrozole shows as the hardest on your heart. Prayers for you

Thank you for your reply. I assumed that since I had DCIS with IDC in one breast that if I got cancer again it would probably be the same type.. Guess that is a false assumption. ...I had heart attack in Feb and I am on blood thinners for a year right now so that would complicate a biopsy recovery or any surgery recovery right now. I am also on anti estrogen meds since I was HR+ DCIS/IDC so I am hoping that keeps caner under control. .... I will have to discuss this with my doctor(s) and see what they think , I guess.

There’s a difference between calcifications and microcalcifications! Normally, from what I’ve read, calcifications, which are larger dots on a mammo are not dangerous. Microcalcifications, however, can lead to IDC, with a stopover in DCIS. This is what I had. They had biopsied the micro calcifications 5 years prior to my IDC diagnosis. The original biopsy was negative and they did indeed tell me to check in 6mo, then 1 year and then 2 years!! I am quite angry at this protocol! Since the microcalcifications didn’t increase or change between mammograms, they said “oh you can now come back in a year… then 2 years.”
Long story short, 5 years later (2023) I was diagnosed with HER2-positive bc.
So conclusion: i wouldn’t trust this protocol at all. It’s not because the location or number of microcalcifications don’t change that the terrain around it can’t have cancer. I would be very careful with this kind of news, especially since you already had DCIS/IDC in the other breast. That said, I have heard of calcifications from reduction. You just need to stay on top of it and don’t get a false sense of safety.

Yeah, my cousin was on estrogen blockers and had heart attack too. I guess it’s one of the things that can happen. I am taking exemestane because I have osteoporosis and it causes the least amount of additional bone loss of the AI meds. It does raise cholesterol levels and I already had high levels b4 cancer. I am now on a statin to control that. ..