Thank you for this and all you contribute here. I agreed with thr oncologist going forward. I'll stay current with self-exams and a schedule of doctors' exams and mammograms. And will do blood work every 3 months to keep an eye on tumor and other markers. And reserve the option to reconsider if variables change. So he and I are a team now and the patient portal is excellent for getting questions to the doctors and promised responses with 24 hours.

On a different note, your experience with a generic was interesting. Someone on another thread had a markedly better experience with the brand-name of an AI versus a generic of the same med. And someone elsewhere posted about very sudden side effects on a generic she'd been taking for a long time then discovered that her pharmacy had recently switched to a different manufacturer. Maybe people having side effects can benefit from just changing to the brand if possible or a different pharmacy to try it a different company's generic version. (We saved a pet's life once doing just that for what it's worth. )