[Sans-Culotte]

It was in 1996 that my wife came down with cancer. She underwent mastectomy, chemo and took tamoxifen for a time. A year later, she had a reconstruction. In 2004, she had a new occurrence and had a lumpectomy and radiation.

She does not take arrimidex, and stopped taking tamoxifen. While taking tamoxifen, she had such coughing spells she could no longer function. We do some natural holistic things to keep her well.

Funny how doctors who prescribe hormone replacement think the rewards outweigh the risks, but you will not find an oncologist who advocates their use.

[deannadurbin]

That’s odd because I consider I did better physically when on Tamoxifan instead of Femara or Arimidex. He’s had me on all three. I didn’t have the nasty bone pain on Tamoxifan, my counts were normal, no heart troubles like I had with the Herceptin (only took 3 doses of that and had a heart attack), but since being changed to Femara and then Arimidex I get constant bone pain and my counts remain slightly elevated.

I wish he HAD kept me on Tamoxifan!

[goodnesswins]

depends on the TYPE of hormones....