How long Zoladex?
How long Zoladex? Hi
Just a query about the usual length of a Zoladex course. How many injections have other ladies had ? I was advised to have two years and I thought that would be 24 but apparently as I began in July 05 I should continue having them until July this year. Not much to moan about, I know, but I wanted to know others’ experiences!
Best wishes
Kitty
Hi Kitty
not sure as i’m only on zolodex thru my chemo treatment, but a lady from my support group is on zolodex injections every 3 months and she is having them every three months and her’s will finish just over the two years also.
take care
marie x
Hi Kitty,
I’ve been on Zoladex which has been one injuection every four week since i started chemoe. I was advised that i only need to be on it for as long as i’m having chemo. I
I had my last round of Taxotere yesterday and so have just got to have one more Zoladex injection next week then thats its, my onc is keen to see what happens with my periods and get me back to ‘normal’.
I know everyone is different but hope this helps.
KayLou
Hi Kitty Just to let you know I have been on Zoladex since I started Chemo back in October 2005. On finishing chemo in feb 2006 I was advised to take a combination of Zoladex and Tamoxifen for 3 years - than I’m finished. I have the 4 weekly injection. Anything else you wanna know just drop me a line.
Katey x
Hi Kaylou by the way…hope your doing ok
Zoladex injections … HI
am about to start zoladex injections has anyone been really suffering with side affects?
bakers
for Bakers re Zoladex side effects Hi bakers, I’ll own up this is a reply I sent to another lady re Zoladex side effects. Hope it helps you.
I was 42 and very much menstral(!) at diagnosis Jan 06 and was started on Tamoxifen in Feb 06 post sugery. I was getting on OK with Tamoxifen (just one or two of the expected side effects, hot flushes etc). But after a few weeks l developed a very nasty allergy to it which involved open weeping blisters breaking out on my back below my Lat. Dorsi. scar and on my reconstructed breast. It looked terrible but luckily as that area was all numb I had no idea if it itched or not! It sure looked like it should! Anyway my Consultant took me off of Tamoxifen for a few weeks, and did a biopsy on the blisters. They cleared up and the biospy came back that it was definitely an allergy! Well done Sherlock! As I was pre-menopausal my Onc. started me on Zoldaex (monthly injection into the abdomen) in October 06. The jabs are unpleasant to have but bearable even though I am very needle-phobic! The side effects for me, and I know this differs woman to woman , are again unpleasant but managable. The hot flushes vary in frequency day to day, they are worse if I am stressed or drink alcohol! The night sweats are not so pleasant and I very often have to get up in the middle of the night to change my nightie and sponge myself down! Good idea to put a large,thick bath towel under the sheets on your side of the bed! Helps save the matress. My head hair went through a phase of falling out, not in huge clumps but was noticeable in the bath when I’d washed it. That has settled down and my hair is back to normal. On the upside the hair on my legs and underarms does not grow anywhere near as fast! Also my eyebrows do not need plucking half as much. And best of all no periods! I do have problems at the moment with complete lack of sex drive and lubrication - if you know what I mean? But I think a lot of that is to do with self image, post surgery discomfort etc rather than the Zoladex. My ONC can’t say for sure how long I will be on it for as there is not enough evidence on long term usage, 2 years has been mentioned. I have decided, and my ONC has agreed to arrange it for me later, to have my ovaries removed as I do not want to go through this drug induced menopause only to have my periods return, when I am taken off of it, and then have to go through the menopause again later. Once is enough! Like I say hope some of this helps!