Hi,
I’ve not posted for a while. I wanted to ask how others have dealt with hormonal blocking treatments. I have completed chemo & radiotherapy. I started taking Anastrozole in May which I was told was the optimum drug to treat my type of breast cancer & had quite a few side effects, mainly pain & soreness in hand & feet, but also bone pain & not able to sleep very well. I continued taking it for 4 months & in the end my lovely breast care nurse advised me to take a month break from it & after 4 days I felt so much better, the pain was lifting & by the end of the month I felt almost back to me again. I have now been on Temoxifen for only 1 week & already my hands have started to hurt already & also have some abdominal cramps too. I know everyone reacts differently to these horrible, but also life saving meds. I just don’t know what to do about the whole quality over quantity of life.
Lots of love & healing hugs to you all.
Hi Tilly1
Sorry to hear that you are suffering side effects from Anastrozole and your new drug tamoxifen. I suggest you talk to your breast care nurse about the problems you are having with tamoxifen and they may be able to suggest another alternative to you.
Best wishes
Daisy53
Thank you for you reply Daisy,
As Im only a week in with Tamoxifen I feel I should give it a bit of time to settle. I have an appointment with my oncologist in February & was hoping to stick with it until then, but can’t put up with it as it is, so I will take your advice if it doesn’t calm down in the next couple of days. Ive now got awful period pains too, which I didn’t think I would ever see the likes of them ever again at my age.
I’ve also just put my cancer treat details in the nhs predict to see what the difference in in life expectancy if I was to stop hormonal bleeding treatment altogether & it is is showing by not tacking it my percentage only drops by 3%.
