Hi I’ve been taking Ibandronic acid for 5 months now and have to take them for 3 years - no side effects. I get side effects from Letrozole but they are manageable. Ask for a bone scan if they don’t offer you one. Facts always help you make the right decision. I want everything that can give me more quality of life. I am 75. Best of luck.
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After being diagnosed in Dec 2023 with breast cancer Stage 4 in my back bones, femar and lungs I have been on letrozole…no serious issues taking this drug. Plus I had zometa…at first monthly for 6 months and now once every 3 months… no serious ill effects.
Visited the dentist before I started on zolendronic acid and had him check me out a year later to ensure no change in my jaws.
Failed to take the traget drug Kisqali as it caused near liver failure and I collapsed a few times…so saw quite a bit of A&E for 3 months!
I take Adcal tablets vit D and Calcium as I was osteopenia before I was even diagnosed as stage 4. I was having bone density scans before my latest diagnosis.
A bone density scan may or may not help your understanding but I think, if you have the resources, you can pay for one privately.
I did have a lot of hair thining ( fell out every time I touched my head) . I just went and had my hair cut really short. Through a blood test discovered it was a lack of folate and a month of taking the tablets stopped that. Friends were great they all knitted me hats in case I needed them…which I donated to the Cancer charities for others suffering hair loss. So far about 30 hats donated. So from a negative for me came a positive…other people suffering hair loss can benefit and friends enjoy knitting for charity.
Historically in 1996 I had stage 2 breast cancer Estrogen positive. A lumpectomy. On Tamoxifen for 5 years…yepp like others side efects ( so bad consultants had to take sudden medication action…but I can’t recall what it was) but kept going with the Tamoxifen drugs. Had several weeks off work initially due to the sleep deprivation caused by Tamoxifen but it sorted itself out and I returned to FT work.
I feel lucky that my treatment kept off cancer for all those years. It included ablation of my ovaries…not common these days as I was pre-menopausal and plunged me within weeks into sudden menopause.
Latest diagnoses was, as I mentioned above, Dec 2023. Medical profession thought I had deteriorating arthritis!
Every one has to make their own choices of opting in and out of treatment. It’s good to hear though that for some people some of the drugs have no serious side effects and helps their survival rates.
We all tolerate side effects to different degrees and it’s diffcult for the medical profession to judge at the outset.
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