Letrozole and acupuncture for symptoms

Hi Shazza

I'm Daisy53 one of the Community Champions on this forum.  I'm sorry to hear that you are struggling with hot flushes at night.  While I don't have the experience you are looking for I noticed that you haven't had any replies yet so I thought I'd reply to you to move you to the top of the discussion.  Hopefully someone will be along shortly with some advice for you.

Best wishes

Daisy53

Hi. I’ve just come across your post and hope you see my reply as your message was a little while ago. I have been having acupuncture to help manage the pain in my joints, poor sleep, hot flushes and overall fatigue and it has been a game changer for me. The sessions are delivered at my hospital by my care team. Most sessions I have approx 35-40 needles placed at various points on my body. I’ve found this has really helped me to manage the side effects of my medication. Perhaps ask your care team for a recommendation as Chinese acupuncture may take a slightly different approach to western techniques. I wish more people going through treatment knew about the benefits of acupuncture- it has really helped me although I appreciate everyone responds differently. 

Hi, I had some acupuncture. The Macmillan centre at my hospital provided 6 sessions free of charge. If you have a local Macmillan centre or a Maggie centre I would suggest you talk to them. 

It would give you a chance to try a different practitioner and maybe other different therapies. The thing that helped me most was aqua aerobics which I still do 5 times a week.

Since posting this ive moved to a different acupuncturist who works at mcmiklan and does NADA protocol. Ive also started in anastrozole as the pain and stiffness has become unbearable. I do feel the hot flushes are improving which is great - ive had 5 sessions so far. 

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