@kitkatb I hear you sista. I'm not having an easy time of it on this wretched drug but I'll be damned if I give up taking it. I know that my self talk (crazy negative at the best of times) would go ballistic if I had another cancer or a recurrence after I'd stopped taking it. Even though I have tiny amounts of breast tissue left, the gene mutation substantially raises my risk of developing a new breast cancer. I just HAVE to keep taking it. I am increasingly resigned to the next nine years being shit, but I'm rolling the dice and hoping that of the optimiscally 30 years of life I have left, 20 of them will be off Letrozole and substantially better. I'm writing off my fifties in the hope that my sixties & seventies will improve.
How did you go at the doctor's with your thumb & finger situation? I can feel my thumbs stiffening up and every now & then they feel like they want to stay bent. I'd really like not to add this to the list of side effects I have!
What bugs me is that trigger thumb is listed as a very rare side effect yet I know of so many people who've experienced this problem on the AIs. And my sample is tiny!
All whingeing aside, I'm so glad we have a drug that can make a substantial improvement to survival. But a gal can dream of not being fatigued, in pain, depressed, anxious, of not having dandruff, dry mouth, dry everything...
My weekend is OK so far thank you. Less pain today than the last few days. Went to a BC fundraiser lunch today and had a nice time. I've made two Italian pear cakes tonight in preparation for my father-in-law's 87th birthday lunch tomorrow. In the morning I'll make a couple of fish pies. And in the afternoon I'll collapse on the couch!
Take care of yourself, K xox
