Arimidex

Done with radiation. So now on too Arimidex, which I call my aroma thearape, I have read all the input on this drug. Personal reports, which I believe more than anything. I am going to give this drug a try. I have Fibermyalgia and personally I know this is going to Kick it big time.

So I go to hawaii May 12 for a week, my plan is not to take this drug untill I get back. Dr. wanted me to start it now, for some reason she does not think I will get anything but bone pain. Which I already deal with just as you all discribe with Arimidex. Already on vicodin.

I too think everyone thinks because we have taken the cancer out, gone threw the other treatments, that it is done with. When the doctor sits across from me and my husband and tells us little side affects are with this drug, He will believe her and not what I feel. He has no idea what fybro pain feels like. I realize he is helpless to help me however. Just hard when they think I should go back to the old me.

Did the side affects start right away? Sounds to me like some of you did have headachs right away. I think I should enjoy Hawii without the worry about this drug....

go to hawaii its a chance of a lifetime.  You can start the meds a week later when you return.  Cancer doesn't grow uncontrollably in 1 week.  The pain from the arimidex is unreal- no headaches for me only joint pain.  I cannot just get up from a chair i have to push up with my shoulders because my knees arenot dtrong enough to get the job. done.  very painful, but on the good side.  I never had a headache from it.  Go, have fun, ALOHA

Thankyou for your reply. I too know I will have trouble with knees too. Mostly the right one, already do. My plan is to go enjoy Maui and come home to life....and my next step. And loose weight for that will help me a great deal. Going to try a diabedic med to help me. And monitor my Glucose, all under dr of corse.

On May 02, 2012 8:50 PM kruizenkat wrote:

Done with radiation. So now on too Arimidex, which I call my aroma thearape, I have read all the input on this drug. Personal reports, which I believe more than anything. I am going to give this drug a try. I have Fibermyalgia and personally I know this is going to Kick it big time.

So I go to hawaii May 12 for a week, my plan is not to take this drug untill I get back. Dr. wanted me to start it now, for some reason she does not think I will get anything but bone pain. Which I already deal with just as you all discribe with Arimidex. Already on vicodin.

I too think everyone thinks because we have taken the cancer out, gone threw the other treatments, that it is done with. When the doctor sits across from me and my husband and tells us little side affects are with this drug, He will believe her and not what I feel. He has no idea what fybro pain feels like. I realize he is helpless to help me however. Just hard when they think I should go back to the old me.

Did the side affects start right away? Sounds to me like some of you did have headachs right away. I think I should enjoy Hawii without the worry about this drug....

Felt 100% fine for 2 months  I love Kona Kailua

I tried Arimidex for several months following my radiation treatments.  The pain started by the second week.   By the end of three months I could hardly get out of bed on my own.  My hands were like claws, my legs and feet hurt so bad that I had to take pain pills just to get through the pain...I have had several surgeries and I have taken very few pain pills in my life, but I could not deal with the pain, so I quit the Arimidex... The doctors tried telling me that it had nothing to do with the Arimidex, I knew that it did... Once off of the Arimidex it took a good year for me to feel a lot better... Now, five years later I still have some lasting effects.... I have Lupus, and several other autoimmune diseases that blame on the Arimidex....  I tried Tamoxifen, I did take it for several years... I had some mild side effects with it... I would wait until I came back from Hawaii before starting the Arimidex....  Enjoy your vacation....  I wish you the est....

Hope you are handling Arimidex well. I am in a lot of pain and have never been diagnosed with fibromyalgia...I can't  imagine! I had problems with itching and so I have rotated the "aroma therapies" out...Arimidex, Aromasin, and Femara. They have all caused itching and pain. Am off right now trying to see what the pain is all about. As far as getting back to normal, you will never be "normal" again. You have to find your new normal. I have a sister that is an oncology nurse (both chemo and radiation) and insists I should grab myself up by my bootstraps and get on with life...get over it! Huh! She's been on the giving end NOT the gettin' end! Good luck. Feel better.

Well I am certainly trying to pull myself up by those bootstraps, kind of hard I do not have straps on my boots and besides it is summer....dahhhhh.....I can feel a differance in some pain I have that I am sure is caused by the Arimidex, like my wrists and fingers, but nothing that I can say for sure is.....Will not tell that to the doctor however....then they take that as fact and never look at anything you ever say again. Which is what they said my problem was before I had my gal bladder out......it is fibromyalgia....biopsey of liver told them it was liver desease caused by autoamuni.....Now I think my big problem is caused by thyriod....being cut back on that dose....heart doctor said today HE thought it could still be radiation making me so tired with combination of thryroid.

I have a friend who is a RN and sometimes I think she has no idea what I am talking about and she learned in school!!!!!Last year she was totally convinced that her mother had uturin cancer not the kind that is heritary....today she is not sure for they found a 5" tumor on her overay, which was there last year too,,,,she just did not want to deal with follow ups and the doctors did not do it. She went this month to just get nicotine patches...I hope her tumor is not cancer....Now little about that cancer. She is single and her only sourse of income....I told her do not be a fool and reach out for help.....it is there for her threw cancer society.....Hope she will. she is in waiting pattern. I hate it when things come back and bite us in the butt and teach us different.....I learned a long time ago...always another side to everything...

So far I hope I am good with Arimidex....Thankyou for checking on me....Keep in touch and tell me what they think your pain is.....

I live near Lake Taho California.