Hi, I am about 10 months post surgery for a single mastectomy for grade 2 breast cancer. I am oestrogen positive and taking anastrozole.
Someone has suggested I take lions mane to counteract some of the side-effects of anastrozole. However, when I read about it, it says the Lions mmane can increase oestrogen levels in my body. This concerns me as surely it contradicts the reason for taking the anastrozole, which is to strip the oestrogen from my body.
However, some of the alleged positive effects of lions mane make me tempted to give it a try. However, I can find little research to advise me whether it’s a good or a bad idea to take it with anastrozole.,
Has anyone tried it? Any advice?
Hi Daisey, thank you for your reply, I am not currently receiving chemo, I am on hormone therapy and targeted therapy and have asked several health team members for advice, to no avail, simply told to go for a walk. I think it’s so unfair we are just left to get on with life suffering as so many do on these drugs, it would be really great if macmillan could do more to help us find advice to help with these awful side effects. I do appreciate you replying to me, just feel helpless at the moment.
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