10 Years Today
10 years ago I received the confirmation that I did indeed have breast cancer and that I would need a mastectomy and chemotherapy. As it turned out, I was extremely lucky to have discovered a dent in ...
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Thank-you everyone. I had a lovely, long lunch with family yesterday and just enjoyed feeling well!
@arpie I had a lot of joint, particularly hand pain and stiffness on them. Femara also caused bone density issues, cholesterol issues and vaginal atrophy. In the end, my oncologist felt that the negatives outweighed the positives for me. The aim had been to stay on them as long as possible, that turned out to be 7 years and 3 months for me. When I stopped Femara for a month break at the 5 year mark. The hand and joint pain and stiffness went pretty much immediately. My oncologist then switched me back to tamoxifen but the joint issues returned to a lesser degree. It fixed my cholesterol very quickly though!
It’s very hard to say what effects are possibly still from having taken the tablets and what is now just deterioration due to getting older. My joint pain and stiffness is much reduced but other effects continue.
It’s very hard to say what effects are possibly still from having taken the tablets and what is now just deterioration due to getting older. My joint pain and stiffness is much reduced but other effects continue.
I was fortunate to have an oncologist who considered quality of life as well as reduced recurrence benefits and drew a line using her professional judgement.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there! xxx