ellen
14 years agoMember
Arimidex
I have been reading through the blogs about Arimidex and found them very interesting. I have been on Arimidex for 6 months and up until 4 weeks ago, "side affects free" - until now that is.
I now h...
Howdy shortlionruth!
I just decided to check the Arimidex blog after chatting to a few women in hospital as we waited for 'breast squash and steam-roller' treatment.
They both said they'd changed due to the joint pain etc. As i am also prob high risk (mum, dad and grandfather died of various cancers) I read that Arimidex gave the best 'coverage'....so am happy to keep on it.
Anyway your list of symptoms had me nodding 'yes' to most of them so now I understand a little more and realise that it's not just me being lazy, hypochondriacal and whingy - that the feelings are actually from the medication and I'm normal!! (this may be a surprise to hubby!) I do find the permanent mild feeling of nausea annoying and think my weight gain is worse due to the fact that I'm eating way too much to try and stop feeling 'yuk' -obviously a futile excercise! thanks -Sue