Loss of libido after bi-lateral mastectomy and Arimidex

Thanks for the Info.  I agree the mental part is huge.  It isn't that I feel unatractive really.  For me my breasts were just the source of most sexual sensation and now with both breasts gone and then add to that the Arimidex with its side effects, I just feel totally unsexed.

 

didi,

My heart goes out to you.  This whole darned cancer thing is a slam in the ego, the sexuality, the self-confidence, and just plain what life was supposed to be about.  But, there are others going through much worse.  I don't kow if that thought will help, but it does get me through some of my bigger hurdles when I'm feeling as though I'm picked on.

A visit to a "sex shop" believe it or not, is probably in store for you.  An understanding person at our local "shop" helped me look forward to enjoying sex with my husband again.  It can be intimidating the first time but so well worth it.

Let me know how you're doing. 

On 2/14/2008 Kbcns7 wrote:

My message to you was cut off.  Your doctors won't tell you that you will become a man with Arimidex or any other estrogen-suppression cancer therapy because THEY aren't enduring trans-sexualizing cancer therapy.  Do you know that European female body builders use Arimidex to develop bigger muscles and to become less feminine?  No you don't.  When one gets Arimedex, one agrees to have their femaleness destroyed.  That's all I can say, as a former user of  it.   After three and a half years on Arimedex, I myself decided to stop the therapy, without my oncologists's input or consent.  And when I told him that I thought it was too damaging to me as a woman, he suggested yet another estrogen suppressing drug.  At that point, I said to myself, my life is my hands and I have to stop the pharmaceutical abuse. What would he know, anyway.  They go by what the pharmeceutical companies tell them, make no mistake. Estrogen suppression therapy is only appropriate for men with prostate disease.  Good luck to ladies who can't say, wait a minute, I want to get some  more information, I want a week or two to do research, I want two more opinions,  I only wish I knew in 1996 what I know  now.

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According to my son-in-law who used to be a body builder, athletes who take steriods to 'bulk-up" sometimes take Amimidex to block any female hormones the body naturally produces and to enhance the effects of the testosterone.