Side Effects

Everyone understands and we all have those days when we just need to say we wish things were easier/better/different!

I have been having a few of those lately myself. The bone density has really got to me more than anything else for some reason! Unfortunately it seems while I have been doing a lot of exercise during the last 3 years since diagnosis, my starting bone density may have been not so good. Treatment (as in bc treatment) has not improved it so I have been fighting an uphill battle on this front without really knowing it until a couple of months ago!

Getting some assistance from my GP and now the dietician and exercise physiologist will help get me fighting this on the front foot rather than the back, I hope! ?? My GP was wonderful today and I felt better after my visit.

Hope your blood pressure and dizziness improve. As you say, who knows which medication is the real culprit!

Look after yourself, Deanne xxx

Thanks Brenda - the ears are fine and the temperature is good.  Dizziness drives me nutty when I lie down, which I did yesterday for my treatment and my blood pressure is considered border line.

As I say it just keeps on giving!

Hope you're more settled and on a better road to being your old self

Take care from Christine xx

Yes here I was thinking I'd come down with another virus! 

Yes I was also told I have come high maintenance medically!  Shouldn't complain as Steve is looking after me so well but goodness me as I say it is the hidden extras that we don't expect.  At present the blood pressure is a problem but the cholesterol is good so it too is being considered a side effect of one of the medications, which one who knows!  The blood pressure is classified as border line instead of healthy like it was!

Deanne it is hard to comprehend that your bone density would be problematic after all the exercise that you do - just shows that these medications can affect us in ways we don't expect!

Not often I come on and moan but yesterday I felt the need as I know everyone on here as similar issues at times and does not judge

Take care from Christine xx

Yes Christine, this journey does keep you on your toes!

At least we know that there is a cause for all these annoying effects, I suppose. I am still learning about how to counteract all the new ones I have since starting Femara.

I have just returned from a GP visit too, where I have discovered that in addition to bone density issues, Femara seems also to have affected my cholesterol and white cell count. 

I am now armed with referrals for Dietician and Exercise Physiologist to help with all these little hidden extras!

I have become so high maintenance!! ??

I guess we have little choice but to keep going with it all. It does help to share our frustration and annoyance on here though. I do hope that treatments in the future come without so many little extras!

Deanne xxx

How are your ears? After chemo I am pretty sure the tiny bones in my ear had copped a beating. It did take a while for that to fix itself and I had weird imbalance and dizziness for a while with it. Now I just have the usual odd bout of dizziness from low blood pressure which my Dr doesn't seem to think is a concern and I just have to live with it.