Femara
Its now 4 yrs on since being diagnosed with breast cancer and still awaiting bilateral reconstruction. I'm just wondering if there's anyone else out there likI me.
The last week has probably been o...
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Hi Jo, in answer to your question.... after chemo, surgery and radiation I was on Tamoxifen for about 2 years which I didn't have any trouble with. After having a hysterectomy I was taken off Tamoxifen and put on Arimadex. I was on this for abIout 6 months before I stopped taking it. I was a mess. I was in soooo much pain in my hands especially, my husband would come home to a blubbering mess of a wife and he would massage them for me..(love him!).
I saw the oncologist and told him I couldn't do it any longer as the pain and aches all over my body were sending me into such depression (which I have never suffered from before). He the changed me to Femara, which apparently has less side effects. I beg to differ.
I see my oncologist early March so I will discuss it then, but like you, I was always a pretty healthy person before being diagnosed with cancer. I didn't/wasn't sick even when I was diagnosed....but since the treatments and the drugs I feel like an old woman. Sometimes I wonder whether I'd be better off not taking anything. Who knows?!
Heather