Tamoxifen and inflammation

@Mandy_79

Hi!  As @arpie has said above, please get in touch with your Oncologist.  Not everyone settles into medication but eventually the body does adjust.  It has been diagnosed for a reason hence letting them know that Tamoxifen is causing you terrible discomfort opens the opportunity to find something else that suits better!

Take care and best wishes

Hi @Mandy_79

Definitely talk to your Onc about it before stopping it.  Most of us have some sort of side effects from the hormone treatment (some very lucky ones, don't!)

There are 3 other Hormone treatments that may suit you more - ask your Onc about then.  When is your next appointment?  If it isn't for some months, try and get an earlier one.

I tried 2 others in the first 6 months, before settling down with Anastrozole for the next 5+ years.  It suited me much better.

take care & all the best 

I need to make a decision on whether to keep taking it. Tamoxifen just doesn’t suit me at all :(

Do discuss the problem with your oncologist.  After a long discussion re the benefits vs side effects mine agreed to cease the damned drug.  What will be will be but in the meantime I can live a happier more comfortable life.  A friend has never been on it and she is cancer free 10 years later.  All the best.

Hi @Mandy_79 I am sorry to hear about the inflammation in your hip and knees. Whilst I am not on Tamoxifen - I am on Letrozole, an oestrogen suppressing aromatase inhibitor - it seems from the threads here that the side effects associated with “hormone therapy” can include inflammation, although people experience this to varying degrees.