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Completed 5 years of anastrozole. Withdrawal symptoms? Side effects?
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I went off 7 weeks ago and have had anxiety issues the past 4 days that I cannot connect to anything. Waiting for my psychiatrist to get back to me about what to do. This is soooo not me and it is upsetting which adds to the anxiety. I had the worse headache ever about 3 weeks after going off so had CT scans to rule out other bad stuff. That came back ok. I can’t find anything official related to symptoms women have after going off after 5 years.
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Hi, @phebe - anxiety is really hard to deal with - or that is what I've found at certain points in my own life. Harder still if you cannot figure out what is behind it.
Do you anticipate you will hear from your psychiatrist tomorrow? In the meantime, has anything helped to relieve the anxiety?
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I have also had a little anxiety, no noticeable relief from joint and bone pain yet. I am on Zoloft so that hopefully will keep me from getting too far out there while I withdraw. Please connect with someone, anyone if it gets out of control. Please also report this withdrawal symptom, as I will, this will benefit other folks who withdraw in the future.