My advice would be if you have found a brand that you are happy with stick with it. Sometimes I have to phone around pharmacies to find what I want.
Hello Appletree,
I am on Anasty too and have been for roughly a year.
According to info on Arimidex (original brand of Anasty) from the link below, at 1mg a day it reduced estradiol (main type of oestrogen in the body) by approx 70% in 24 hrs and to 80% after 14 days. Oestrogen suppression was maintained for up to 6 days after stopping daily dose.
You can find the info under the “Clinical Pharmacology” section. If the link does mot work, then Apologies for lack of techno brain at the current time!
Regards ? X
Good to hear from everyone. I am aware that different brands appear to affect people differently. For me the Teva brand of letrozole (and possibly anastrozole too) is to be avoided at all costs, whereas I seem able to tolerate the Accord and Sandoz brands (Sandoz is a division of Novartis who originally developed Femara/letrozole). My presciption now specifies these 2 brands and so the pharmacy is obliged to order them in for me if they don’t have any.
I have also started a spreadsheet to compare ingredients of the different brands, to see if I can identify what in Teva causes the issues for me (it probably isn’t that simple!).
Gailey, I envy you your supportive health professionals. It does concern me how variable the support is. I know of a lady who has stopped taking her AI altogether because of the pain it was causing, and I do wonder whether the side effects could have been reduced by brand experimentation
Hi SheilaC
Jjust seen your thread re teva I had problems with tea brand thyroxine a while ago and had to change brands.Just diagnosed breast cancer I was told I wI’ll be givenice Letrezole .would be interested in y our fidings re different brands?
Regards kate
Have been on the Accord brand of letrozole since September 2019, have managed ok with the side effects. Today I picked up my repeat prescription which is for 2 months and when I got home found 1 box was Accord the other was Crescent Pharma Ltd. I’ve had a quick scroll through this discussion and don’t seem to see any one else mention them. I’ve maybe missed it but has anyone else been prescribed this make?
Going to try them first to see if I feel any different compared to when I take the Accord.
Love to all xx
I have had pain in my shoulder many times over my life both pre and post breast cancer. I think the best treatment is an injection of something that eases the problem. I have had several goes of this, the best at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London where they guided where they injected you using x rays and the docs doing it had lead waistcoats on so they didn’t get any damage from them! But it was very accurate. I have also had day surgery where they put me out so they could snap my arm up to free my frozen shoulder.
Good luck
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