I have been on Arimidex for about 18 months, and apart from the usual aches and pains, which seems to have got better, (or I am just used to them now) it has been ok. The hot flushes are an irritant but they are not too bad. Anyway over the past few weeks, just prior to a hot flush I have started to feel quite poorly. I get pains in my leg muscles and bones, then I start to feel sick and have a change of taste in my mouth then feel really thirsty, I feel slightly out of it and ill. Then it passes!
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I’m on Aromasin and get quite bad hot flushes and sweats. Just before a flush starts I feel very strange and ill for a few moments and also very thirsty. I’m on Effexor which cuts down the number of flushes but I still get some every day and I sweat buckets.