Hi my lovely’s
really feeling crap again.
exemestane zolodex antidepressants. What causes what symptoms.
I never did the moving forward course and struggling to accept the new me.
a list of my symptoms seems endless. Only 52 looking forward to my 60’s how sad.
hot flushes, feeling low, fatigue, arm pain, stiff achey joints, dizzy in the mornings, tinnitus, hearing worse, weight gain, painful sex (Definitely not regular activity), guilt, feel useless, don’t want to go out on my own (nerves) cant work have not got the energy so looking at I’ll health retirement.
I just can’t accept all this and I dwell on it from waking up. My only chill time is the evenings on the sofa with my husband before bed.
I don’t go to the doctor or the dentist as scared they will say the wrong thing and unsettle me more.
I’m on new anti depressants and I feel better than I did, I honestly didn’t want to wake up in the mornings 4 weeks ago. I speak to a counsellor every two weeks.
I just need to chat to someone I think more regularly.
Anyway love to you all
vic xxx?
Hello Vic
Thank you for posting,
It sounds as if you are having a difficult time at the moment, and I am glad that you have regular contact with a counsellor. If you feel you need to talk to someone, please do call our Helpline or if you feel very low you can access mental health support through Samaritans 24 hours a day.
Hormone therapies, such as exemestane and zolodex can cause many of the symptoms that you describe including low mood and menopausal symptoms. These can have a significant impact on your quality of life and feel overwhelming.
It is important to let your treatment team or breast care nurse know how you are feeling. They may be able to offer additional support to manage your symptoms or suggest a change of hormone therapy.
We offer a range of free supportive services that you might be interested in.
In particular the Moving Forward course, which covers many of the areas you mention above, and the Someone Like Me service that can match you with a volunteer to talk to who has been through a similar breast cancer pathway.
For more details about all of these services, please see the information on the links.
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Hi Vic,
A good way to face all those issues is with mindfulness, it helps me a lot, so you might want to give it a try.
I also started not caring what people say and if they think I’m rude when I tell them to stop. It’s my body, my life, and I’m the only one who knows how it feels.
I hate when people think that since the “active treatment” (surgery, chemo, etc) ended, everything is great… I’ve recently started my second 5-year stint of hormone therapy (5 years on tamoxifen, now it’ll be 5 years of letrozole) and I have a lot of those side effects too, and most people think that just because my cancer was 6 years ago, I “am/should be” ok now… Argh!
Hit the nail.on the head I feel like this all the time aswell as if I wudnt be at piece dying I even looked into dignitis help dying in Germany Switzerland etc I hope one day I wake up from this bad night and say no today I feel.good I don’t feel.fst and ugly and scared nervous anxious sleepy exhausted mentally physically done I don’t have family my daughter is 16 but I hide things from her to protect her but now one else in our life’s to talk to or try to thisnis why I found this forum xx I want to send all.luv and hugs to everyone who has and is suffering anything due to cancer or tamoxifen chemo radio ect xxx warriors is what we all are even though today I don’t want to be that warrior I don’t want to fight no more.and hurt I just want to feel me again x