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Post Treatment Letdown
I am just over a year from my initial diagnosis of breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy and node clearance a week after diagnosis, started 6 months of chemo about 4 weeks later, radiotherapy about 6 week...
My oncologist said I could take a drug holiday because I'm having a lot of GI symptoms that she is not sure are Letrozole related or not because I had them during chemo too. I guess I am only 4 months into Letrozole and going off even for 6 weeks she suggested seems scary. I am going to have both scopes to rule out anything else going on in my gut and think I'll wait 6 months into Letrozole to see if the side effects settle. My stiff fingers aren't as bad as they were the first 3 months so hoping the GI stuff will resolve too.. I do feel like a holiday, so need to think about that. I didn't think I was unusual but nice to hear others feeling this too, not that I wish it on anyone! xx