I've just started taking Aromasin and within a month I am unable to bend my fingers. They feel as though they will dislocate if I open them up fully or try to grasp something like my toothbrush, fork or steering wheel. Talk about affecting the quality of life. My whole body aches although I am a yoga practitioner and go to the gym or walk 6 days a week. When I try to research different websites, I'm amazed at the lack of centralized information and integrated medicine approach to something that must affect tens of thousands of women. In my opinion, you should not have to run to a specialist in arthritis when it's a well known side effect of AI's. Now that I'm done lamenting reality--I am faced with presenting all of the things I can't do and my level of pain to my oncologist. In the face of my misery, what is he to do but suggest another Aromatase Inhibitor or Tamoxifen if my symptoms don't abate?
I have a choice to make, tough it out and see if symptoms get better or worse. Do they go away after you are done with the drug in five, count them five years?
Do any of you find a form of excercise, nutrition, or research helpful? What questions should I ask my oncologist next Monday when I go for my checkup? I'm delighted to be alive and look at each day as a gift. I just find myself so uncomfortable so much of the day I would love some ideas.
PS, my eye doctor told me today that Aromasin has been known to cause glaucoma (or exacerbate existing condition) so keep your annual appt with your eye doctor.