Hormone Therapy
Hello everyone
My experience of cancer has been very gentle to date. Lumpectomy, clear margins and some lymph gland removal which revealed no spread. This was followed recently by only 16 sessions ...
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Hi Kate13,
My story has been similar to yours,diagnosis in November 2015 then lumpectomy, clear margins, 20 sessions of radiation therapy. Arimidex was prescribed to begin 2 weeks after rads completed. I was already suffering up to 18 bad hot flushes in a 24 hour period after stopping HRT and my surgeon said to wait as the meds would make this worse (!!!) Managed to last 5 weeks on Arimidex but just felt soooo awful that I stopped and went to see my oncologist to discuss. She said she was happy for me not to take any hormone therapy as she felt, with the size and type cancer I had, it was Ok for me not to take this medication. I am sure a different oncologist may have had different advice but I was happy with that.
I am 63 years old and wonder if my age may have had some influence on her decision, maybe if I had been younger she would have advised me to stay on the meds? Who Knows.
Re the hot flushes, I tried Effexor but that was no help and decided to try acupuncture. Have had this treatment over the last 4 months and the flushes are much reduced and my sleep quality is much better.
All the best with your decision.
Gerry