Re: Two Compounds Disrupt Female Hormones

[Guest guest]

Yes. With you, Carla, on the " wee bit " upset about how these

substances impact our hormone health. I have read of this before. I

believe it has to be a piece of the fibroid puzzle. I worked in early

semiconductor production in my late teens, in the 70s (before this

all went to South Korea -- has anyone researched whether the rates of

hormonally-influenced cancers and fibroids have increased among Asian

women where electronics production has been centered? And by the way,

semiconductor production is done almost entirely by women, supposedly

because smaller hands and greater finger dexterity are a plus --

total bullshit -- as you can see, I am getting angrier even as I

write).

I was around plenty of lovely chemicals probably including these --

there were huge open vats of solvents in the rooms where we worked. I

don't remember the names, I paid no attention. There were no windows.

It was a closed, dust-free environment -- sealed doors, hair covered,

the whole nine yards. It was ventilated, but who knows what standards

they were (or were not) adhering to? I had a miscarriage at age 21

(by then working in a different industry). I had my (healthy)

daughter at age 22 (exposed during my pregnancy to asbestos, but

that's a different animal -- as far as I know, no hormonal effects,

but damages the lungs; we discovered when my daughter was born that

the flu I had was actually pneumonia; never had pneumonia before or

since -- coincidence?). Laid off from that job when my daughter was a

year old. That was the end of the industrial section of my resume.

Discovered fibroid in my late 30s -- consensus among docs was that it

had probably been there for years. Successful myo removed by-then

enormous fibroid at age 48.

Of course all of this can be coincidence, especially when miscarriage

and pneumonia are not uncommon in general. There's no way to be sure

of causality in an individual case. But a wee bit upset? Ummm. Yeah.

Really.

Sunny

> Two Compounds Disrupt Female Hormones

>

> By Gardner

> HealthDay Reporter

>

> MONDAY, April 19 (HealthDayNews) -- An industrial solvent and a

> medication often used for seizures and bipolar disorder increase the

> activity of female hormones inside cells, which might lead to

> miscarriages and breast cancer in women, a new lab study suggests.

>

> read the rest here:

> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?

tmpl=story&cid=97&ncid=751&e=11&u=/hsn/20040419/hl_hsn/twocompoundsdis

ruptfemalehormones

>

> This story has me a wee bit upset this evening...

[Guest guest]

> we discovered when my daughter was born that

> the flu I had was actually pneumonia; never had pneumonia before or

> since -- coincidence?).

Sunny,

Were you ever tested for chlamydia pneumoniae? Even recently, looking

for antibodies? Curious about this...especially with the latest info

from Tufts research... hmmmmm.....how was your pneumoniae diagnosed?

A lot of women on this group have identified sinusitus, bronchitis,

laryngitus, and pneumoniae at some point in time during their fibroid

years. Anyone besides me ever have a blood test for chlamydia

pneumoniae for confirmation of the presence of this bugger?

Carla