Losing Weight on Tamoxifen
Hi Girls, its been awhile. I was diagnosed in 2013, had chemo and four operations and was left with not much confidence in my body which I'd treated pretty well, I thought, only to be betrayed by ...
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Thanks Jane and Melinda. Thankyou for your support. I'm glad you think I can do it. Positive statements like that are really helpful, I think.
My optometrist told me she knows lots of women on tamoxifen who have just "blown up". Those sort of statements seep into your psyche and undermine it, at least in my case.
I was 48 and premenopausal too and the chemo zapped my ovaries. All of a sudden I thought of myself as an old woman, and that there really was no point in fighting the creeping onset of old age and flab. Cancer, losing your hair, a chest full of scars, my pectoral muscles are not longer connected to my ribs etc. etc. took away a lot of confidence I had in my body. My doctor telling me I was at an age where I should take it easy didn't help either! But something has flipped in my head lately though and all of a sudden I think I can do something about it.
Good luck with your weight loss Jane. And I hope the dratted pain stops for you soon Melinda.
thankyou again for your support.
Samantha
My optometrist told me she knows lots of women on tamoxifen who have just "blown up". Those sort of statements seep into your psyche and undermine it, at least in my case.
I was 48 and premenopausal too and the chemo zapped my ovaries. All of a sudden I thought of myself as an old woman, and that there really was no point in fighting the creeping onset of old age and flab. Cancer, losing your hair, a chest full of scars, my pectoral muscles are not longer connected to my ribs etc. etc. took away a lot of confidence I had in my body. My doctor telling me I was at an age where I should take it easy didn't help either! But something has flipped in my head lately though and all of a sudden I think I can do something about it.
Good luck with your weight loss Jane. And I hope the dratted pain stops for you soon Melinda.
thankyou again for your support.
Samantha