Anastrozole and vestibular disease

That is very interesting and I am always happy to learn something new. We sound very similar. I am 75 and diagnosed at 69. Stage 1A IDC and had lumpectomy, radiation and anastrazole. I did not need chemo as I was right on the border line with a 27 Onco Type. Weighing the factors and possible short and long term effects and the small amount of difference in it not returning, I chose no chemo but I did do radiation and hormone therapy. Radiation as fine; it is the years after radiation when you see the changes in the soft tissue and fibrosis. But still it was an easy decision for me because I had no lymph node involvement and clean margins and I wanted to zap any possible wandering minute cells. Anastrazole was fine in the first 3.5 years; well fine except I could not sleep. But the last 1 to 1.5 years sleep deprivation was worse (the longer you are on it the more the effects are and it changed my metabolism. I do am active- strength training 3 days a week and walking another 2-3 days. But that last year it got harder and harder to control my weight. It is always a personal decision. I don't know where you live but I am blessed to be in a major medical complex and all my doctors and nurses were fabulous. I had a better diagnosis than most but still my oncologist always listened to me. I found that if you asked if the hormone blocker could cause x, y or z; she would always respond "it could". But I realized she wanted me to stay on it and if the side effects did not bother me much, she minimized it. She did offer me Tamoxifin but those side effects were undesirable and not the first choice for the cancer I had. I would say it has taken me about 6 months after I stopped the hormone blocker that my body is coming back to something more normal. Best wishes to you.

That is very interesting and I am always happy to learn something new. We sound very similar. I am 75 and diagnosed at 69. Stage 1A IDC and had lumpectomy, radiation and anastrazole. I did not need chemo as I was right on the border line with a 27 Onco Type. Weighing the factors and possible short and long term effects and the small amount of difference in it not returning, I chose no chemo but I did do radiation and hormone therapy. Radiation as fine; it is the years after radiation when you see the changes in the soft tissue and fibrosis. But still it was an easy decision for me because I had no lymph node involvement and clean margins and I wanted to zap any possible wandering minute cells. Anastrazole was fine in the first 3.5 years; well fine except I could not sleep. But the last 1 to 1.5 years sleep deprivation was worse (the longer you are on it the more the effects are and it changed my metabolism. I do am active- strength training 3 days a week and walking another 2-3 days. But that last year it got harder and harder to control my weight. It is always a personal decision. I don't know where you live but I am blessed to be in a major medical complex and all my doctors and nurses were fabulous. I had a better diagnosis than most but still my oncologist always listened to me. I found that if you asked if the hormone blocker could cause x, y or z; she would always respond "it could". But I realized she wanted me to stay on it and if the side effects did not bother me much, she minimized it. She did offer me Tamoxifin but those side effects were undesirable and not the first choice for the cancer I had. I would say it has taken me about 6 months after I stopped the hormone blocker that my body is coming back to something more normal. Best wishes to you.