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Breast Cancer | Last Active: 4 days ago | Replies (10)
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@bunnymoon

I admire you all very much. I’ve taken AI and lasted a week - effects of sudden and severe menopause were evident within mere days. Poor sleep, drenching night sweats, joint aches, fatigue. I’m raising two very young children. I just couldn’t function so I stopped. Then tried Tamoxifen. Still night sweats and there goes my sleep. Irritated all day and felt like worst mom ever. I’m truly debating stopping all treatment. I know that’s NOT the ideal answer….

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queenbee9528 | @queenbee9528 | 4 days ago

I'm so sorry to hear of your struggles with the hormone blockers. Like you, I have weighed stopping tamoxifen (and never going on AI's in the first place). Did you have an Oncotype or MammaPrint test to determine your risk of recurrence?

Do you do any regular exercise? I walk for 20 minutes every morning, and it takes the edge off of the aches and pains, enough to get me moving. In your situation, I know that having young children to watch probably makes that really difficult, though.

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