Tamoxifen tip.

Tamoxifen tip.

Tamoxifen tip. I had my rads check-up this week and was telling the oncologist about my hot flushes, moodiness, etc since being on Tamoxifen.

He suggested asking my GP for 10mg tablets instead of 20mg and splitting the dose, one in the morning and one in the evening.

Apparently it helps lessen the side-effects for a lot of women.

Lola

Sorry but found the opposite. I decided a week ago to split my tablet half in the morning and half in the evening of a 20mg tab. flushes all day and night. today i decided to take the whole lot this evening like i used too. What was nice though today was i had fewer flushes.
i feel like saying ‘SOD’ the tamoxifen as i feel so well just now except for the flushes and weight gain.
Rx

don’t stop Hi L iverbird,
Please don’t stop taking the tamoxifen just because your feeling well. I heard about some one who did that and a couple of years later she was diagnosed with secondaries and bitterly regrets her decision. I’m on tamoxifen for 5 years and am going to ask if I can stay on it for 10 yrs (some places do this) as I am worried that as soon as I stop it the cancer will come back - I’m high risk of spread. I know the sweats are bad but I can cope with them compared to the possibility of spread.

all the best Kay