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BCNA welcomes pharmacy prescription changes for breast cancer medications
Six key breast cancer drugs are now more affordable thanks to 60-day prescribing. BCNA is pleased to confirm that six common types of hormone blocking therapies such as letrozole, anastrozole and tamoxifen, amongst others, are now able to be prescribed 60-days at a time, saving consumers time and money. “It is especially…
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Left over Femara 2.5mg
Hi- I have 14 tablets of Femara 2.5mg leftover with me when I moved to Tamoxifen . The expiry date 12/2024. I am in Brisbane- if someone wants them please let me know.
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Endone
Is anyone taking Endone (for pain) and what side effects are you experiencing? My Oncologist prescribed me Endone for shoulder blade pain. I didn’t take it because a friend who had hip surgery had hallucinations when she was on it. As it so happened, the pain went away when I had T11 tumour ‘radiated’. That was last July.…
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Newbie with pain
Hi, Would appreciate advice on coping with pain continually getting worsening. Diagnosed in Feb this year with small mets in thoracic and lumbar verebrae and since then 1 dose of palliative radiotherapy and monthly denosumab. My concern is how quickly my oral targin and fentanyl patch have had to be increased to cover my…
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Free pharmacy home delivery during Covid 19 restrictions
For vulnerable members of the community, Australia Post can now deliver your PBS prescription medications and essential supplies free of charge to you and the pharmacy. Might help those of us who are self isolating as much as possible. Can use the service once a month.
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Med shortage thread
Given the current climate I thought we should start a thread so people can post if they are having difficulty getting any BC specific meds and their location to help others trying to track them down. Had a 6 month appt with my onc on tues and neither onc nor CNC said Zoladex or Femara were currently an issue and they feel…
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Should I be worrying about potential restrictions to medication access?
This thought pecked at me a little last night (because it had only just occurred to me) and then they spoke about it on the news this evening...Will restricted imports impact my access to life-saving drugs? Should I be stockpiling? That sounds so wrong, but I'm a little nervous as I have mets and this drug regime has been…
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Tamoxifen & Thyroxine
I’ve been on Thyroxine meds (under active thyroid) for years without issues, but now with taking Tamoxifen, it seems things are not the same. Doc wants to monitor me for a couple more months before she changes things. My questions are , anyone out there taking them together? Or should I separate them ? And if separated…
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arthritis meds and cancer
rheumy wants me on methotrexate and hydroxychloroquine , anyone been on those with breast cancer ?/