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Recovery time after Anastrozole/aromatase inhibitors
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It took a year for all the foot and hand pain to go away. But I needed 2 trigger finger surgeries, and cortisone injections to both hands and one ankle. Pain was debilitating, was on Anastrozol, then Exemastane, just over a year in total. Also needed cortisone injection to my hip joint. Horrible drugs!
On Tamoxifen instead, no pain.
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I have been told that tamoxifen is for premenopausal patients. But the research I have read doesn’t actually say that. I worked on editing and proofreading the drug insert as part of my job back in the early 2000s. Tamoxifen trials were very successful. That was before the AI drugs were introduced. I have often wondered if the effectiveness of AIs for post menopausal patients is significant enough to justify the side effects. What have your doctors said about this issue?