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Completed 5 years of anastrozole. Withdrawal symptoms? Side effects?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Nov 2 9:07am | Replies (291)
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@sequoia

I’m excited with this new data I’ve been off Anastrozole (1 month) & will be following your info. I Ser my oncologist end of month. I’m sure he will suggest trying a different AI. Will see - bit I would like to stay off of it long enough to see if my pain goes away or subsides. Thank you.

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Chris, Volunteer Mentor | @auntieoakley | Nov 18, 2021

Tell them you should get a reward for taking it, the reward should be time off for good behavior. Lol

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katehanni | @katehanni | Nov 19, 2021

To be clear, I told my oncologist in the beginning when the Anastrozole was failing me dramatically; that I would try all of the AI's before giving up or moving to Tamoxifen which I'm not a great candidate for either. So I did try them all before making the somewhat radical decision to try naturopathic MD's who in AZ are licensed to prescribe regular medicine as well as natural and oriental medicine. I've never seen this type of system before but glad it exists because the medical care here is abhorrent.

So in my case I did exhaust all of the AI's and couldn't tolerate them. All my onco said was, ok then your done? I'll be "lost to followup" if that happens and more at risk than if I can get any sort of estradiol mediation going with the natural AI's. I'm not kidding myself as to efficacy. I don't believe the natural AI's are as powerful as the prescribed AI's but I don't have other options!

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