Arimidex

Hi to you all,

my name is finita ,and  next month I will turn 62 .

 March 15th 2013  I was diagnosed with invasive ductal breast cancer and had the lumpectomy plus 3 nodes removed and 6 weeks of radiation therapy . 

I have been reading all your comments on Arimidex side effects for the last hour.  What a true blessing to know that it is not in my head and that all the side effects are in fact real. I have been taking it for six months and not feeling all that great...gain weight, pains and aches , sweating  etc... today I was doing some gardening which I so dearly love, but was almost in tears with pain and fatigue ...very frustrating as I have always been very active and now I seem to have to continuously push myself to do things. I started to go off at my husband for no reason , I have since apologised and made him understand that it is the medication and that I will try to learn more about it so as to learn to live with it.

My mother is a cancer surviver and is now 86yrs , but sadly I lost one sister at the age of 47,...  10 yearas ago . 

I am still waiting to have the Brack test done .  I can see that I am not alone in all of this and I almost feel normal after reading your comments.

I am having my yearly mammogram and an ultrasound on March and results on the 25th ...I do admit that I am kind of anxious and nervous and I do try not to think about it but it isn't easy .  I still do lots of walking and bike riding when is not windy but I do tired easily and I don't enjoy it as much as I used to because of the fatigue.  Just about everthing is now a struggle and that is something that my brain does not compute ! 

Finita XXX