What a crappy situation @sam09 You are stuck between the devil and the deep with this one, take the drug that is shrinking you tumors and scratch yourself mad or refuse it and take your chances. That sucks. I'm having a similar, but not quite so critical, dilemma with taking Femara.
Can you take a break for a month or so to give yourself a bit of a breather? What would that mean to the over all effectiveness of your treatment? Oncologists are not always the most creative thinkers and sometimes don't suggest anything outside the gold standard treatment. Quite rightly so, but can you ask them what they think about a break and if they have had other patients who have tried that and what the outcomes were. The answer is likely to be 'It's your choice' but if you are seriously thinking of ditching the treatment, just calling time out for a couple of weeks may help your skin heal and get you into a better head space.
You don't want those tumors growing back and, as you say, you are too young to just throw it all into the wind and let nature take its course.
Maybe swap oncologists. They are not all the same, and if the one you are seeing now is not that supportive, a fresh view may help. Marg xcxx
