Aromatase Inhibitors: Did you decide to go on them or not?

Umm, @pbnew. Thanks for alerting me to the broken video. I will look into this and get back to you with the proper link.
In the meantime, you can see it here:
https://www.facebook.com/MayoClinic/videos/350931292115996

It is low with the caveat that it has only started being tracked recently. (Meaning people could have had in the past and had it attributed to poor oral care, age or just written off as an anomaly.)

I don't think people are sitting around choosing between risking osteoporosis or bone metastasis though. I'm sure that no one wants either one of them.

For me, personally, the myriad treatments for osteoporosis are so unpleasant that I am just motivated to do anything that I can to postpone ever needing them. And hope that far better preventative options become available. I look at young girls (and boys) and the ever-increasing subtle forms of eating disorders and worry about them a lot.

There a lot of Hobsons's choices in medicine unless we can be and remain perfectly healthy, alas.

@callalloo you have osteopenia, not osteoporosis, and don't need meds. You have a chance to do things more naturally. Right now, I take Tymlos in the morning and have to stay in bed for 2-3 hours. I don't have Hobson's choice or any choice at all, really!

I know. You, and others here, are helping so many people by sharing your experiences and what you've learned about prevention and, if needed, drugs.

People usually learn things the hard way, not benefitting from the wisdom of others. Mayo Connect is a wonderful resource for changing that process for those who found their way here. (And the others they can in turn help by what they've learned.)

Link did not go to video etc. Just comments.

Americans take ten times more prescription drugs then other Industrialized countries. The medicine I was taking, Anastrozole, gave me bad side effects, after being on the medicine for more then 2 months. It made me so irritable and mean it would have destroyed my marriage and my relationships with family and children. This POST is probably the effects of the Anastrozole still in my system. It was affecting my mental health that I started to drink alcohol, eat tons of carbs, and sugar. I was gaining weight and felt depressed. They offered anti-depressants or mood stabilizers, to combat the side effects. I have never been on anti-depressants. America has 5 percent of the worlds population but uses 60 percent of the worlds anti-depressant medicine. When I went off this medicine I feel like a million dollars, stopped drinking alcohol, started eating healthy, etc.. Maybe, in my case, the Anastrozole is doing more harm then good? I will try another estrogen blocking drug but this would be my 3rd drug. Most important I trust my doctor and team at Mayo.

I’m 63 ,dcis zero stage. Took anastrazole after radiation and couldn’t tolerate side effects. ! After two months - I stopped it.
Now they want me to start tamoxifen! Hoping to get opinion of mayo dr.
Anyone else have this experience?

At age 72 (as of June), I have decided to not take the Anastrozole or the Tamoxifen, and likely not the radiation because I do not want to spend the rest of my time sick and dealing with the serious side effects. Opening up myself to getting osteoporosis is just trading one serious disease (cancer) for another serious disease (osteoporosis) and I don't want to be sickly, in pain and miserable for the rest of my life. I am however, going to try as many of the natural type treatments as I can, including diet, stress management, exercise and naturopathic help. I am looking into the Mistletoe treatments that are used a great deal in Europe, but are not yet approved in America. Some people use it as a stand alone treatment instead of the traditional ones and others use in in addition to their treatments to help manage the side effects. I know that this is not the path that many would take, but for me, at my age, it is a more acceptable way of seeing my life for the time I have left. 🙂