Started taking tamoxifen 3 weeks ago and for the last week have been feeling severely depressed which is getting worse day by day. Has anyone else felt like this when taking tamoxifen ?
Hi there, so sorry to read about your Tamoxifen side effects. There are a few threads on here from people who find that the T makes them suffer mood swings and/or depression, so it certainly isn’t just you.
I am lucky just to get mega hot flushes and a bit of stiffness, but I’m sure someone will be along soon who knows how it is for you.
Hope you find some relief - can you talk to your BCN or doctor?
hi there thanks for reply yes i have spoken to my BCN she is wonderful we have a realy good realationship she does not mince words tells me the trouth, she told me not to take them for 2 weeks to see if my mood improves, if it does’nt then whot;s the point .
sorry my spelling is realy bad
Hi everyone,
I’m completely new to this site but saw some threads about tamoxifen and depression and wanted to comment.Initially I was trying to respond to a thread that started in June, but I don’t know how to find it.
Anyway yes yes and yes again. I started my tamoxifen treatments in March 2011. The day I started taking it I started crying. The next week I cried most of five days. The weird thing was that I didn’t know why I was crying. Sometimes, just trying to call a friend to go to lunch and being told no was all it took to set me off again. Anyway After going to two different psychologists and not finding that it helped, I started asking my drs. if it could be some of the new meds I was taking. They agreed that it could and when I began having thoughts of ways to die I got very scared and talked with my oncologist. He took me off the tamoxifen for a few weeks and started me on effexor, also I started taking blood pressure meds, and clonazepam for anxiety. I felt better and started the tamoxifen again after about three weeks. Things were going well for about 6-7 weeks, but the suicidal thoughts started coming back. My effexor was upped and again I did better for awhile. I’m starting to have problems with depression again and so I’ve made an appt. to go see a psychiatrist in a few weeks. I’m hoping he will be able to help get all the meds. I’m taking regulated so they will work better together and I won’t have to face this depression for the next five years. Sorry for the length I’ll try to cut back in the future. I hope this helps a little.
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hi fly woman…and weave… yes tamoxifen turned me in to a weeping jibbering wreck … took it for 2 months when i was initianally diagnosed last year, i thought i was weepy and exausted because of the situation i was in… i went to my oncology appointment , pocket full of tissues, when they weighed me i had put on over 2 stone… i was on and off the scales 4 times… the hca thought there may be a problem with them…i had gone from 10 stone to 12 stone 2 oz … when i saw the onc, he said , ANGELA … you have put on 2 stone in as many months… how do you feel … i promptly started sobbing uncontrolably … i snottly replied like this, all the bloody time…he examined me as was planned… me still sniffing and snivelling… and told me he was taking me off tamoxifen…i was even more upset then… untill he told me that there were a number of drugs he could give me that did the same thing… stop the hormones producing… and prescribed me exemestain… the other name for it is aromasin…and now … whey hey … im down to 11 stone… ive stopped buying tissues, i feel so much more like my old self… i am not saying you need to change your drug, just explaining what happened to me… speak to your oncologist… see what they recomend for you… best wishes , angie xx PS … im post menopausal … i had my ovaries removed a few yrs ago this may make a differance to the drugs they give you
thanks every one i live on my own new village my son comes home at weekend but to hide myself away i told him i had a sick bug, everything is such a sruggle gp asked if i needed to go to hosiptal to be safe from myself,
i have had bc for 5 going 0n 6 years 6 chemos all the cancer drugs, they put me back on the lovley tam i was on it in the early days of b c but had to come off it as i grow anouther lump during my first chemo
My lovley b c n agrees that there should be a lable on all my drugs saying unless your name is fly women there are no side affects, they are suprised im still fighting .
who remembers that add in the 70’s[weebles woble but they dont fall down] that should be my theme tune .
im realy gratefull to those who have replied . sorry about the woffle and the crap spelling ,its hard to see when tears are running down ones face LOL
Hi angiem just read our reply thanks it does help to know im not the only person on this plannet , i have had b c for five years i went on the tamoifen like you when initianally diagnosed for 3 months but during my first chemo i grow anouther lump on the same breast so i had to stop it now i have done full circle started it again . i do not know my menopausal statous as my periods stopped there and then the only blessing in all this hell of a life ps any one know what ones pecker is mine is getting very worn out what ever it is having to keep it up all the time lol