>well scope #4 today and well got clumps mmm round 4 of surgery and then round #4 of bcg only they are looking at a stronger dose. anyone gone to a higher dose???<<
Gee...no, I have never heard of anyone getting a raised dose of BCG, that is, unless you'd been getting a reduced dose before.
>Menopause is messed up with all this. I being 42 hormones aren't working-FEM and now looking at mmm what next. <><> gain-anyone stop the hormone and tough it out???<
I have to tough it out...had induced menopause at 43 for breast cancer along with big symptoms but because i had an estrogen dependent tumor was not allowed to treat the menopause symtpoms. 5 yrs later, treatment ended and (irregular) periods returned along with menopause symptoms but I can't take HRT because of the risk. So I just sweat it out, as you said. Lay naked in bed in the freezing cold, damp and clammy, it's the pits. But...it passes after about 5-10 minutes and returns every hour or so but mostly at night. It's do-able, I feel. No fun, but bearable. It sounds like yours is worse....I sympathise.
I agree with Rosemary that it's risky to take hormones when we have cancer. Since bladder cancer has been shown to respond somewhat to Tamoxifen (the breast cancer tx I had which suppresses estrogen and progesterone), it could be that it would respond to hormone activating therapy as well...no proof, just a hunch that says it could be a risk.
Cancer is almost always more aggressive in pre-menopausal women, so going into menopause could be a good thing (aside from those sweats).
Best,
Wendy