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Anyone take Anastrozole every other day?

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@saraabrooks I am so sorry, this is how I feel all the time as well. I take a different AI called Exemestane but sounds like the same side effects. I can't do even half of what I used to around the house and some days I can hardly get myself out of bed at all. When I do try and push through the exhaustion and pain, I end up with even more pain and even more exhaustion that doubles or triples later that day or the next. I recently tried retelling my oncologist just how badly I feel all the time but he brushed it off. I was told I just need to exercise more........ I still feel like punching him in the face when I think of this. I HAD been trying to continue all the same activity as I did before my diagnosis for 2 years and I just CANNOT! After my back surgery a year ago, I was forced to take it easy and I realized how much less pain I had by doing so. So that's what I am sticking with, I am the one who has to live in this body every day, not my doctor. I am not going to cause myself unneeded pain and end up with injuries and feeling even worse everyday by continually pushing myself. I don't feel like this is living either. I feel far worse than I did before my diagnosis but no one cares. Doctors don't want to hear that, they just write down on my file that I have no side effects and am continuing to tolerate treatment wonderfully. Meanwhile I have been telling them of many different side effects, since they all began years ago. Talk about feeling like you are screaming at the top of your lungs in a crowd and no one even turns to notice. We shouldn't have to live like this, they need to do better.

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@coco46 I'm sitting here at 4:00 in the morning and decided to reread some of the comments. It's so awful that I am overwhelmed with how people have to live with the so-called life saving medications. I have made a decision which was right before Christmas really. I was going to see my family and I thought I want to feel so much better. So I stopped an astrozole two days before Christmas which was really dumb on my part because it has a 50-hour half life which means I didn't change anything by going off of them at that point. I wanted my Christmas to be better than I knew what it was going to be. It was awful. I was dizzy nauseous some of the time but the worst thing was my cognition was gone. I couldn't even play a simple game with my family. I couldn't figure anything out,