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Anyone take Anastrozole every other day?
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@myoga I have finally given up. I've never felt so bad and almost bedridden in my whole life. 2 days before Christmas I stopped anastrozole. It is now December 31 and I'm finally starting to feel a little bit better. I can't live like that I'd rather be dead so that's I guess what I've chosen. No more drugs. I know I'm facing almost certain death but I'm 80 years old and I've lived a full life. Why am I hanging on to it for. My faith is strong and what will be will be.
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@saraabrooks
Yes! I believe you’ve made the right decision considering such a horrendous side effects. We have to live too. Anastrozole is not a guaranty to prevent recurrence.
The half life of anastrozole is 50 hours, why do we have to take it everyday? After 100 days we accumulate over 50 pills(?) in our system. The pharmaceutical companies would not do research to lower doses, and why would they do that to lower their profits? So far I only see lower dose research for exemestane which found that taking it three times a week is non inferior to every day and that research was not done by pharmaceutical companies. Exemestane half life is 24 hours. Imagine anastrozole taken twice a week?
I wish you all the best. Please come back to update on your healing process.Hugs.