These drugs haven't been around for very long and the recommendation to push the treatment out to 10 years is fairly recent too. It would be interesting to find out how the early pioneers of AI are coping.
I had a 4 week break after taking them for 18 months and, after a couple of weeks, I felt much better. I'm tolerating Exmesetane better than the other two, but it is a slightly different sort of drug. IN theory, that shouldn't make a difference--but reading the findings of numerous trials and research programs has only convinced me that you can prove pretty much anything if you are truly determined to. Just exhausting, I'm reduced to hoping for the best. Hardly a scientific approach, but I'm out of options anyway.
The drug companies persist in describing the side effects for the majority of women as the same as menopause. That may be true, but I dunno. Maybe the ones who cope well don't get online and vent?
I'm about as menopausal as it is possible to get, and apart from the hormones generated by my substantial backside and fat stores, I'm totally devoid of any vestige of my fertile self. You'd think, if you believe the pharma, stopping shouldn't make any difference. But it did. I interpret that as being a ray of hope, I've just got to stay above ground for another 8.25 years to prove it....
