Final chemo!!!!
had last chemo today! went really good. need some suggestions for natural remidies for hot flashes too.
Am seeing the Onc for a final appointment in three weeks where he is going to give me a scri...
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Hi
I am taking a very small dose of effixor (37.5mg) to tackle the tamoxifen flushes and sweats. It is much improved I would say I only get 2 hot flushes a day now instead of the 4 an hour and I still have some sweating but it's just bad at work as it's so hot! I avoid hot drinks before I go to work as it makes it worse and alcohol will give me a sweat if I am somewhere not well ventilated. The interersting thing is though that I can do 2 hours of traning in a Dragon boat and don't have one flush just a bit of normal physical sweating and can happily drink a hot coffee after without problems! The body is a strange creature after BC. I sleep really well need the ceiling fan now it's summer in QLD occaisionally I take "Sleep" tablet by Suisse which helps to calm the mind and it works well for me. Don't feel you have to suffer the flushes and sweats I did for nearly six months and it was terrible much better now and it's the hot weather roll on winter i should be good ha ha.
If you are ER+ there is not much in the natural remedies well in fact nothing you can take as there seems to be phyto - oestrogens in lots of menopausal things. I have thought about acupuncture as my next thing will check with my onco when I see him next month.
Good luck
Sarah x