After Arimidex
After Arimidex Has anyone who is post menopausal finished their Armidex treatment, and if so how did you feel afterwards? Hopefully I will be having my final appointment (after 5 years of treatment, 2 on Tamoxifen and 3 of Arimidex) in June, and I really would like to know how I will feel after this. I blame Arimidex for so much, after all it is the opposite of HRT which is supposed to make women feel wonderful, glowing skin, lustrous hair, looking years younger than they are, so I am wondering if I am going to look much better and feel younger when I stop? Just lately I have felt as if the cumulative effects are catching up on me, achey joints, hot flushes, feeling tired, although I have tolerated it much better than some and it has been miles better than Tamoxifen (for me anyway). I seem to have been one of the first women to be given this for early stage breast cancer and I have read nothing about how one feels afterwards. Does anyone have this experience?
— Hi Carling — Sorry I can’t help you but hopefully someone can. I too wonder what will happen after the Arimidex stops re the symptoms. BUT I also worry that I willnot be having anything to continue help me with my fight to keep cancer at bay. I still have three more years to go but know how you must be thinking. I wonder if it is like the ladies who are ER- who can’t take it, since maybe they will be able to help a little.
Good luck and well done for reaching the five years.
Joy xxx
No Answers Thank you Joy for your reply and congrats - not much longer…! I gather from the lack of response that there are not many reading this who have finished Arimidex? When I was put on it, having started on Tamoxifen and suffering bad side effects, the only information I could find about it was US based and I believe it had only just been licensed for use in early stage breast cancer in this country. So I would not be surprised if I am one of the first to be coming up to the 5 year mark having been put on this. Please correct me if I am wrong, anyone??? And let me know what life is like after Arimidex (will I emerge like a butterfly from a chrysalis sparkling and blinking in the sunlight, fluttering my wings and living happily ever after?..