Femara vs TAMOXIFEN
 | Femara |  | TAMOXIFEN |  |
| 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. | Tamoxifen is used to treat breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic breast cancer), to treat breast cancer in certain patients after surgery and radiation therapy, and to reduce the chances of breast cancer in high-risk patients. | |||
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| 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. | Add TAMOXIFEN review I had a Stage 1 tumor. Only had to have lumpectomy, sentinel node, and 33 radiation treatments. I have been on Tamoxifen since March of 2011. Being of menopausal age, the night sweats I had previously became much worse. My oncologist recommended Effexor, which has helped with moods. However, I get up each morning achy, with pain in my knees and legs,sometimes my hands. Physically, I feel worse tha ... Started taking it 2 months after my bi lateral masectomy and 13 lymph nodes removal...Starting voimitng or feeling like I had to every morning...Once i vomit I felt immediately better..I could of handle that...It was the severe depression that made me go off the drug..Hard to function on a daily routine....My Va jj felt like a raisin..forget about feeling sexy or even the desire was difficult to f ... After being diagnosed with stage one ductal carcinoma of the breast last June, I proceeded to radiation therapyThe lesion was small 6mm, and no lymph node involvement.They put me on a total Estrogen blocker, which I could not tolerate.Then in Dec.2012 I was put on Tamoxifen.I was totally miserable and wiped out.Prior to treatment I had been positive and so grateful my cancer had been cau ... I've had some hot flashes,however it's the irregular periods, which are very heavy, which are caused by a thick lining forming on my uterus, which is giving me a hard time. I have also experienced some blood clotting. 6 months of this drug gave me severe depression. I had to get off drug because of the negative depresssion. See DR in 3 wks; it did not agree with me. | |||
