Newsflash: There Is No Overreacting Once You've Had Cancer

Ughhhhh!!!! Let me tell you that you are on your own if you develop problems from taking tamoxifen. Honestly, there is no doctor who really looks after this type of issue, even though it isn't a rare occurrence.

There's your ob/gyn, but they specialize in babies and don't really have the expertise or experience to guide you in determining--via the least invasive way--whether you have tamoxifen effects or endometrial or uterine cancer.

You see, tamoxifen can cause all of these, and it's impossible to distinguish among them without a D & C and/or full-blown surgery--both of which are too invasive without a darn good reason, in my opinion.

So what I'm looking for is someone who's seen a large number of women who have taken tamoxifen, ended up with ill effects from it, and can speak to the odds of it being one way or the other--crappy side effects of the drug or actual cancer.

For that, I'm thinking I have to go up a notch for my second opinion, to a gynecological oncologist. A second opinion from another ob/gyn who hasn't seen situations like mine in great number doesn't really give me any greater insight, in my opinion.

Funny though, neither of my ob/gyns have suggested this. In fact, when I asked for a referral to a gyn/onc, my current ob/gyn gave the impression I was overstepping.

Gyn/oncs only like to see you once someone else has certified you a cancer carrier, it seems. It's actually the same with oncologists who treat breast cancer. You only see them once it's proven that you have breast cancer.

The difference, however, is that you see a breast surgeon along your path to being definitely diagnosed. They are the reigning experts on breast lumps and help in those judgment calls. They have seen a lot and can talk odds.

There is no such doctor to deal with the grey, might-be-endometrial-or-uterine cancer cases like mine.

And that's frigging annoying. There should be one, and I've decided it needs to be someone with more specific expertise in my situation than an ob/gyn.

I've decided it's going to have to be a gyn/onc. Because really, "We could just cut you open," is not a good answer.

Neither is possibly walking around with a new cancer from treating the old one.