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Radiation: When do side effects show?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Apr 22 11:42am | Replies (25)

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I would like to think I could do the Onero high impact treatment for bone density, but my left knee blew out on September 15, 2022 and put me in a wheelchair for 6 months. Since then, I have to brace my fragile left knee to even make a short walk or go to the grocery store, so I'm not sure that I'm ever going to be doing "high impact" anything with my damaged left knee, that was in the MOST clinical trial for damaged joints (bicycle fall) and arthritic people for over 20 years (1997-2020). There are so many things I now can barely do at all, like climb stairs. The symptom were those of a meniscus tear and I had to have 32 ml of an anti-inflammatory, 6 ml of Durolane and Tramadol for pain after X-rays revealed no break. I agree that being old (I'm 78) is a factor, but I definitely think that I was an extremely poor candidate for A.I. adjuvant therapy with Anastrozole (or Laetrozole or Exemestane). 7 months on that really semi-crippled me for life. My Illinois oncologist, of course, denies that the A.I. pills had anything to do with it saying, "You're just old." I disagree. Two Texas oncologists, who know that I had routine MRIs on my left knee and X-rays of my hips and arthritic knees for over 20 years, have said I should never have been put on A.I. pills at all, and most certainly not before ordering a bone scan for me prior to treatment. I also am in the midst of $10,000 of dental work (implants, etc.) as two of my teeth have just split below the gum line as the result of routine cleaning. My oral surgeon made me fill out a book-length series of questionnaires about whether or not I had taken any biophosphonates. It seems that that might have made the dental implant off limits, as Anastrozole can weaken the jawbone, too. If it's not one thing, it's another. (Roseanne Rosanna Danna from SNL).

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Wow reading your story I can't believe they neglect by physicians. I myself have osteopenia and have a fracture in my spine t7 which I have been on bisphosphonates going on 3 years which my bone density has come up greatly in my spine I just finished radiation for breast cancer luckily I only had to do 15 rounds and my oncologist is just putting me on 5 mg of tamoxifen for 3 years no way in God's earth when I touch and AI. I feel for you. Also I had a bone density last year and my oncologist wanted to see that and I have another one this April next week. I live in Canada