Hormone blockers
Hi all, I am recently diagnosed with early BC. I am booked in for a mastectomy and auxiliary node clearance two days from now. Further treatment depends on the pathology from the surgery. So I am ha...
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Ah, in between the devil and the deep blue sea, as me granny used to say.
I really don't like taking the AI drugs but I have no immediate appetite for metastatic disease either. So I take the pills.
It's difficult to attribute all my survivorship aches and pains to these drugs, but I'll give them some credit for keeping me alive.
Worry about the unpleasant side effects if you have any. You may not. There a couple of different varieties of hormone blockers, you can juggle them around to see if one or the other suits you better.
In the end, you can stop taking them if you find it unbearable. Do yourself a favour and set a goal for one year. That will be enough time for you to adjust to instant menopause and assess how you feel about the drugs then.
Mxx
I really don't like taking the AI drugs but I have no immediate appetite for metastatic disease either. So I take the pills.
It's difficult to attribute all my survivorship aches and pains to these drugs, but I'll give them some credit for keeping me alive.
Worry about the unpleasant side effects if you have any. You may not. There a couple of different varieties of hormone blockers, you can juggle them around to see if one or the other suits you better.
In the end, you can stop taking them if you find it unbearable. Do yourself a favour and set a goal for one year. That will be enough time for you to adjust to instant menopause and assess how you feel about the drugs then.
Mxx