Letrozole - aches and pains continue

ps.   For me the fact that I needed to take anti-inflammatories 4-5 nights a week to manage the rheumatism told me a lot.   I know that doing this long term has other major issues so for me it was a total deal breaker.   Anti-inflammatories are great if you use them sparingly...if not they destroy your gut.   It also made a metallic taste in my mouth so eating became something I no longer wanted to do.   Long term this is just plain awful.    

 Pls don't misunderstand me...I'm not against Western medicine at all.

I quickly decided to do a Zoledronic infusion for my bones and will continue to do this once every 6 months.   The infusion  made me feel sick for one night and this was acceptable.   It's a personal decision.   I do know it's the hormone blockers that weaken the bones...but I decided even if I decide not to take hormone blockers I can strengthen my bones so they're not as susceptible to cancer if it returns.

The whole chemo & hormone blocker theory seems to be we give you a drug that makes you feel terribly ill or compromise your quality of life, then we offer you another drug to make it a bit better.    If you have nausea we offer you anti nausea medication.   If you have dreadful joint pain we offer you high doses of anti-inflammatories (long term).  Everything about it feels wrong in my gut. 

I did listen to the BCNA podcast and wrote down the comments from Dr Richard de Boer (oncologist).

he said "MOST people I see are cured by the surgery.  We’re trying to improve your odds, but ultimately if the side effects are too great day to day you need to ask if it’s worth doing it.  It’s not true to say if I don’t take the tablet I’m doomed.  It’s not true”.  

Those words were music to my ears and helped me make my decision to stop.   

Link below:

https://onlinenetwork.bcna.org.au/blog/news-and-events/webcast-tonight-thursday-6-june-2019---hormone-blocking-therapy---is-it-worth-it/123395