not common side effect of arimidex
This is my first post, i had early stage breast cancer at 55 late last year and was very lucky as it was what they call good prognosses breast cancer, i had the lump removed, along with radiotherap...
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Dear Anna
Yes like you I feel like the decisions are life and death choices, which heaps lots of stress on me, I am hardly deciding on what holdiay destination I want to go to they seem like such serious decesisions.
My husband did some research and he came up with raloxifene used for osteoporosis treatment, but is a hormone therapy drug a new version of Tomoxifen I am going to ask for this drug.
I will tell you personally, that 100 million people world wide are reported to have osteoporosis, I am not so comfortable with the testing they do for osteoporosis and have done a lot of study on it. Some of my friends with breast cancer, their doctors here in Brisbane went to a conference in Paris last year ,where they discused the testing they do for Osteo, and are now advising their patents not to do the test but instead are just testing their levels of Vitamin D instead ,this is due to the inaccuraceies of the testing.itself. example, I weigh around 100 pounds and the sample of 100 persons they measured me against probably weight 150 pounds average I dont need the same amount of density in my ones as someone that weights this much, so they really need to measure me against people who are my own size to get an accurate reading, But of course I feel that I should be extra aware of my bone health now..
I know you are only 54 and if you can think further down the track 5 or 10 years from now how different treatments will be. Dr,s can only tell you in todays terms of medicine about what your options are, I meet a great breast nurse and she point it out to me how different medicine will be in 5 or 10 years time if my cancer comes back, it will probably make the treatments we are having now seem some what basic, and to just do my treatments, and then get on with my life. I keep remebering this.
and if it is any comfort I know that there is a lot of overseas testing going on right now for stem cell rejuvernation of bone density, so the future is a lot brighter for osteoporosis in the future.