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Janet_A
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8 years ago

Are you a breast cancer survivor who happens to be childless?

I have been a member of this online network since 2014, just after my diagnosis. At a recent breast cancer seminar at a city near where I live, something hit me like it hasn't in all this time, the su...
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Janet_A
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7 years ago
arpie said:
@Giovanna_BCNA    @Sister   @AllyJay   @"Janet A"      @annsan    @kmakm

And it is Letrozole for me!!  Surprising .... as only Tamoxifen had been mentioned up til now.  I'll be reading up on Letrozole now instead of Tamoxifen!  This one compares the two ....... being 65 in a week or so - and VERY post menopausal .... (with 10 years of really SHIT menopause symptoms finally finishing 10 years ago - I started at 45 .....) it will be very interesting to see how I go with the hot flushes & other symptoms specifically raised with the Letrozole ...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa052258

I had my bloods done end of last week - and my Vit D & everything else is pretty good, but my cholesterol wasn't 'terrific' - so I need to go back onto statins again (I'd taken myself off if during radiation ... so now have to go back onto it!  :(   Not THAT happy as I didn't like the 'memory defects' the statins gave me - but accept that it will be better for me long term to be back on it, given how the AIs may affect me!  :(  )    

I'll be having a bone density test done over the next 6 weeks before my next Onc visit ......

Interesting that you mention Vit B12, @"Janet A"  - as mine was rather low last year & I am now on 3 monthly injections.  My other half is also on it, as he can't 'make it' any more after the removal of most of his stomach in 2010 from stomach cancer .... so we are Vit B12 twins now!  Hopefully one day, we'll be able to co-ordinate our injections!  So far .... they are different dates!

Many thanks for your interest in my 'journey' ... not that I really 'like' that term ...... but I also don't like 'battle' that much either!!   What a ditherer!!!   LOL


Love what you wrote here @arpie its a 'track' we take isn't it. I have vit B12 every fortnight. 10 years of menopause, wow. 
I had symptoms at 31, went on a bit of hrt with estrogen, can't have that now.....hot flushes in the tropics brings on a whole new meaning! Let me tell you! Some days I am sure my face is just going to pop off my head. I have to be mindful of keeping out of the heat in the hottest part of the day, that means 11 am till dark lol, on the worst build up days. Drink more water than a small island nation to keep hydrated to keep other symptoms at bay. Life's a challenge but we are here right!