Arimidex vs Femara
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| 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. Letrozole is also used to help prevent the cancer from returning. Some breast cancers are made to grow faster by a natural hormone called estrogen. Letrozole decreases the amount of estrogen the body makes and helps to slow or reverse the growth of these breast cancers. | |||
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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 Femara review after 4 years of taking the medicine I have start having depression, anxious and stress feeling have not talk to my Dr. as yet. I am a 2x breast cancer survivor, diagnosed with the second 2 1/2 years after the 1st cancer all the while taking Femara. I had a lumpectomy and 30 rounds of radiation after the first cancer. I did not have chemo because I had the Oncotype DX breast cancer multigene expression test that determined my chance of ever getting breast cancer again in my lifetime was very low, wrong! I have now been on Femara for 4 years and I don't believe I have suffered any side effects that don't come with being postmenopausal anyway. Talk to any postmenopausal woman to see how they suffer. I will continue the Femara as long as my Oncologist recommends for she is the expert. My best advice is to join a gym and take some group exercise classes, you will feel better and be happier! I have been dicussing discontinuing FEMARA FOR MONTHS NOW...MY DR.INSIST I CONTINUE WAS SWITCHED ONE TO ARIMIDEX,,,WORST, S0 SWITCHED BACK..SIDE EFFECTS...BONE/JOINT PAIN. INSOMNIA, STOMACH PAIN AND REFLUX...RECENTLY HAD UPPER EIG...SHOWED EROSION IN UPPER ESOPHAGUS.(BARRETTS)DON T KNOW IF RELATED...MY BREAST CANCER WILL BE NOTHING IF I CONTINUED TO SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS FROM THE BARRETS...WONDER IF ANYONE ELSE HAS HAD THIS SIDE EFFECT FROM THIS MED....DR. GETS BARRETS REPORT TOMORROW; WONDER IF HE WILL LET ME DISCONTINUE IT NOW....HAVE BEEN ON FEMARA FOR 2 YEARS. | |||
