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Arimidex v Tamoxifen
Hello there, hope everyone is as good as can be. Saw my oncologist yesterday for a check up. It has been a little over 3 years since my lumpectomy, chemo and radiation. I have been on Arimidex since J...
Hi Hazel, I started on Tamoxifen and was on it for about eighteen months, my onc then changed me to Arimidex. I only lasted on this for about a month as depression set in big time (bone pain was terrible, I felt like I was eighty but would have put up with it). Onc then gave me six weeks break then started on Tamoxifen again. I haven't had any real side effects, had hot flushes from chemo but these are tolerable. I have to have Tamoxifen for ten years. I have developed hyperplasia and polyps which are a side effect of Tamoxifen (not very common) I am having a hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in two weeks.
I am not too concerned about the surgery but the pathology scares the hell out of me (the waiting and the what ifs). I just keep thinking while I am travelling this path another woman is'nt.
Thinking of you as you are not feeling great, but it does get better.
Regards Michelle.
I am not too concerned about the surgery but the pathology scares the hell out of me (the waiting and the what ifs). I just keep thinking while I am travelling this path another woman is'nt.
Thinking of you as you are not feeling great, but it does get better.
Regards Michelle.