← Return to Completed 5 years of anastrozole. Withdrawal symptoms? Side effects?

Discussion

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

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Nov 2 9:07am | Replies (291)
Comment receiving replies
@mjay

Are you saying you never had insomnia on an AI and now you have it after you quit?

Jump to this post

Replies to "Are you saying you never had insomnia on an AI and now you have it after..."
neatsc | @neatsc | Dec 15, 2021

I’ve had insomnia long before I was on an AI. I take a low dose ambien every night and sleep great. 3-4 days after my last dose of anastrozole, I couldn’t sleep all night (even with low dose ambien!) - happened again the next night. I texted my onco’s nurse and she told me to up my dose of ambien for a bit until the AI gets out of my system. Tried it last night and slept great! I read that it takes 6-12 days for it to get out of my system! Has anyone heard of this before?

VIEW AND REPLY