Tamoxifen side effects.

Question

I am just wondering if anyone can offer me some advise about tamoxifen please. I took this drug for 4 months after finishing chemo, while waiting to be fully sure that I was menopausal. I then went on to take Femara for the next 6 years. Now that my bone density is very low, I have been switched back to tamoxifen as this has some bone health advantages. The Femara wasn't without its side effects, but eventually they all settled down after a few years. I still continued to get hot flushes, but these too eventually lost their intensity. Now that I am back on tamoxifen I am noticing that the hot flushes are returning and I want to know if I can expect these to lessen again with time? I am now almost 59, and pretty sick of hotflushes, which I started to experience at the age of 48, some 4 years prior to breast cancer.

Chris xx

brenda5 · Answer

Been over a year on Tamoxifen and my flushes aren't letting up one iota, I just learned to live with it. Stress and emotion can bring them on worse so I try to stay chilled out, literally.

socoda · Answer

Hey @Chris, my oncologist told me that it can take approx 18 months for the side effects to start to abate and gave me a script for effexor to help with the hot flushes. I've decided that my spray (from swisse with toner and sea minerals. Etc etc) does me quite nicely and I have a quick spritz and it helps me cool down. Xx Cath

viking1 · Answer

@socoda I used an essential oil from a good company ... peppermint ... and diffused it plus made a spritzer bottle to carry around and especially at night for menopause. &nbsp;It was great! I still like to spritz at night in summer as it really makes you cool xx