Arimidex vs Exemestane
 | Arimidex |  | Exemestane |  |
| This medication is used to treat breast cancer in women who have gone through "the change of life" (menopause). Anastrozole works by lowering estrogen hormone levels to help shrink tumors and slow their growth. | This medication is used to treat certain types of breast cancer (such as hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer) in women after menopause. Exemestane is also used to help prevent the cancer from returning. Some breast cancers are made to grow faster by a natural hormone called estrogen. Exemestane decreases the amount of estrogen the body makes and helps to slow or reverse the growth of these breast cancers. Exemestane is usually not used in women of childbearing age. | |||
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| Add Arimidex review In November 2011 I was diagnosed with Stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer in my left breast. I had 3 months of chemo. In April 2012 I had a mastechomy. From March 2012 thru July 2012 I had 30 treatments of radiation. I have been on Arimidex for 1 year and 2 months. I am 61 but I feel like 80. I am exhausted all the time. I have trouble going to sleep and staying asleep. I never get a good night's sleep. I have pain throughout my body. Aches and pains and stiffness all the time. I feel better if I keep moving. I get stiff when I stay in bed for more than a few hours. I have stiffness in my hands and pain in my left elbow. I have tingling and numbness in my hands and feet. I have trouble with descriptive words and I suffer from memory loss. Sometimes I can't even get up from the chair.I take 2 Anacins before I go to bed in the hope that the pain doesn't wake me up during the night. I try to stay positive. As long as this drug keeps the cancer away it is worth it. I do less and I stay home more. This is the new normal. I do whatever works and everyone just has to understand that I cannot do what I used to do. Took Arimidex after a small breast cancer tumor (stage 1) was found on a mammogram. Had issues with tingling in my fingers. Very dry skin and hair. Issues with vitamin D levels being too low. THEN, metastatic breast cancer developed. Cancer spread to my lungs and liver after about 4 years of taking Arimidex. It didn't work. | Add Exemestane review This is the same as Aromasin. My generic is made by Greenstone not Pfizer. I have had minor joint pain, dry eyes, trigger finger and cough. These have resolved within a few weeks. The major problems are insomnia(for which I take an over-the-counter product) and feminine dryness for which I use organic cocoa butter.) It has been four months so far and I hope to take this for five years. For the first 2 1/2 yrs i had horrible leg cramps that woke me every night. The cramps were even above my knees. I have had lower back pain and am having trouble now with my hip joints and pain when standing. Trigger fingers (my thumb) was also a problem. I had difficulty holding on to things. | |||
