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!