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How rare is endometrial cancer in virgins?

Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Oct 7, 2023 | Replies (11)

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@ioana2022 Your friend has really been through such tough times. There are several medications for mental health including olanzapine that are known for weight gain. It’s truly a balance and weighing out the risks/costs vs. Benefits of these medications. If a person has difficulty functioning in their daily life and the medications are helping then what to do? This deserves a long series of discussions with the prescribing physician since obesity as you’ve described it can certainly present even more health risks. Please share the information with your friend that obesity did not “cause” the cancer. It was a risk factor. Your friend is recovering from a surgical procedure and was diagnosed with cancer. She doesn’t need the added the burden of guilt about her weight. It might be time to discuss her medications with her psychiatrist and see if there is something else that she can take that will help her to lose the weight and treat the reason she was prescribed the antipsychotic medication. What do you think? Can you help her with that?

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@naturegirl5 Thank you again for your answer. My friend lost all the weight because of her illness. She couldn't eat anymore, she was sick all the time and she lost the weight. She weighs now 52 kg and is planning to stay that way. She saw a psychiatrist, a different one than the one that gave her olanzapine in the first place because that one passed away. The psychiatrist that she saw now told her that she never needed olanzapine in the first place because it was the wrong treatment. It never helped her. It only caused problems. She tried to get a second opinion. The second psychiatrist told her that we "all" have mental problems, that she is now unfortunatelly addicted, that she has to take it all her life, that none of her pacients ever got rid of olanzapine and without offering a real reason or diagnosis, the psychiatrist offered her a recipe for olanzapine. She refused. She is fed up with doctors. Before the cancer diagnosis, her gynecologist told her that she had endometriosis. And even if she was bleeding heavily with huge blood clots it was normal at her age. She has been in the hospital 4 times, in different cities, trying to find an answer, a cause to what was happening to her. Two of the times she was rushed with the ambulance during the night because she bled until she fainted. She had enough of doctors! Enough! She asked in the four times that she was in the hospital, "are you sure it is not cancer?". Nooooo, she has been told, it is just a fibroma. The fourth time she was in the hospital, one of the nurses that saw how desperate she was, gave her the phone number of a surgeon that saved her daughter's life many years ago. Her daughter had breast cancer. That is how my friend managed to get to the doctor that performed her hysterectomy and saved her life. She wasted precious time and suffered. A lot! She was stage 3. Currently in remission. Having someone to talk to like you really helps her. I thank you on her behalf.