Tamoxifen and blood pressure medication

Hello @gran71 I certainly think this is worth a conversation with your oncologist. They are usually right on top of things like this. I had one choose a different medicine for me because of my antidepressant. I tried a different antidepressant for a year and was not really well. After a year I explained that if I was going to be that miserable, I might as well get the cancer back, and I just couldn’t do it anymore. Saying I was going back on my regular antidepressants and she would need to decide if there was something she could do about the cancer.
Turns out there about a half dozen other drug choices for the cancer that would have been acceptable all along. Talk to the doctor and explain how you must have your BP meds so maybe they have an acceptable option for you.
It might mean a different BP meds or a different cancer med, try to keep in mind there are many combinations that might work.
Have you finished any other treatments?

I am in year 4 of tamoxifen with 6 more years to go. I can’t take the AI’s because of osteopenia. I didn’t need chemo and I had a new cancer surgery called IORT which required only one large dose of radiation, basically a one and done.

This is new to me. My doctors have not mentioned the tamoxifen and high blood pressure meds having conflict. This irritates me. I'm miserable on tamoxifen and have told them I'm taking a break. I don't think the treatment should be worse than the disease.

Curious as to your dose and side effects. Tamoxifen recommended for me as I refuse AI. I am thinking I will cut 10 mg tab in half to start to see if side effects. They are doing a study on lowered doses because side effects are stopping treatment at current doses

Probably because some people don’t have blood pressure issues. I always google prescribed medications and their interactions with what I’m taking to see if there are negative interactions. The inserts that come with your prescription doesn’t go into detail about all the possible drug interactions.

@part My oncologist prescribed me Tamoxifen 10 mg every other day.

My new oncologist has cut my dose to 10mg from the 20mg my previous oncologist prescribed. I am taking a break until my horrible side effects stop. I only took the 20mg for ten weeks and am surprised it stays in my body this long. This is one week without the pill and I started feeling somewhat better yesterday. Today about the same. I do not like that the side effects stayed strong for a week after stopping. I would really rather skip it if it's only a 50/50 chance of returning but have not approached my new oncologist with this subject yet. I like and trust his knowledge and his answering my questions and listening to my problems. I feel we will work the meds out together. I read a lot of good reviews about him prior to switching oncologists.

We have to be our own health advocates. After experiencing troublesome memory problems and absentmindedness on 20mgs. I felt that lowering the dose might help. With my on oncologist’s ok, he lowered it to 10mgs. The issues didn’t go away entirely, but I think the brain fog is not as bad.