Letrozole

Hi Pisqueak Sorry that you are finding the forums difficult to navigate, can we help in any way for you?

I have not heard of this as being  a side effect of Letrozole, but I know that I have had a type of hayfever and hives for months now, so not sure whether as you say this is just a bad year for allergies. I have been on and off prescribed Anti Histamines so if it gets bad just speak to the GP and thee should be able to help with this.

I have inserted in this email the discussion re Letrozole and side effects and if you just click on the link it will take you straight to that forum .

Letrozole

Thanks Gail will look at that , it probably is just a bad year then , I have anti histamines etc from doctor already. They are also querying heart failure , so breathlessness etc also could be from that. Cannot get heart scan yet due to backlog of covid !  So it's sort of trying to sort one thing from another and  it's so difficult  to get appt s .   

I will check out the link now 

Wendy 

Hi I think it’s a particularly bad year for hay fever not sure if lockdown and the fact that nature has been able to thrive without all the pollution due to not as much traffic on the roads 

Your probably right spicegirl there are a lot of areas on the park, which we back onto, that have been left unmown  too !  

Wendy 

Think it was a bad hayfever year this year. My son had to get medication from the GP, in previous years just off the shelf stuff was fine. 
I’ve sneezed and wheezed on the odd day too. 

Hello. Sorry to hear about your Hayfever.  It has been bad for many this year. Not uncommon for hayfever to come on later in life.  Maybe unrelated to a Letrozole.   I am interested in your side effects wearing off. I have painful joints and stiffness after 9 months on a Letrozole. 
is this something you had. Would be good to know if it improves. 

Hello,  I had very painful muscle spasms in my back occasionally  before my cancer. I was on  anastrozole?  at first and I was getting  awful muscle spasms daily , so bad I just couldn't cope.  I was then given letrozole  which didn't change anything .  I was then wondering if maybe it was the operation (mastectomy)  that had caused this. Doctor was prescribing ever more painkillers. These weren't really doing a lot apart from making me sleepy ,

Eventually I spoke to a nurse specialist ( Dr was probably fed up of me)  who prescribed some morphine. 

1 dose of this in the morning let's me get through the morning almost normally. 

If I do too much later and the spasms start and need another dose it upsets my stomach and i end up nauseous  or vomiting .

I do get less finger and wrist pain recently though so  that is good which I am thinking is me getting  used to the letrozole.

Sorry this may not be helpful to you  but I really hope your joint pains  get less . 

I never expected any of this  when I was diagnosed but hey it all is what it is.

Sorry for such a long post.