Hi everyone, just looking for thoughts, experiences and feelings about Anastrozole. My original diagnosis at biopsy was that my tumour was weakly Estrogen positive, but after removal and examination of the actual tumour, my oncologist decided that it was so weak he was going to disregard it. That changed the course of my treatment to include chemo (FECT) as the cells themselves were grade 3, although all the other signs were good. (No vascular invasion, no lymph node spread etc). So having done all the surgery, chemo, radio etc I was a bit shocked when he asked me to consider Anastrozole. He did stress that he wasn't going to push me as I was so weakly E+. I asked about side effects and was told about the fatigue (Yeah, great. I'm not already on my last legs after the last eight months), joint and muscle pain (Love it, bring it on) and the osteoporosis kick. That one actually does worry me a bit as I've been lifelong dairy intolerant so probably not in bone ace shape anyway. We've arranged to meet again at the end of September and he has said that he will do some finding out about the risk/benefit thing for such low E+. To tell the truth I'm just battle weary of the whole thing now and not sure if I can face another five years of a drug regime. I'd really appreciate your thoughts and feelings about your experiences and choices ladies. I feel so in limbo, it feels like the goal poasts have been shifted just as I was crossing the finish line. Sorry about the mixed sport metaphors, but that kind of sums it up. Love Daisy x
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