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Tamoxifen and mental health

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@frogjumper

It's all a balancing act as far as treatment options. You need to weigh the risks vs reward. For me personally I have chosen not to take any B/C endocrine treatment as it only gives me literally less than a 1% chance of recurrence. To me that marginal percentage is a no brainer for declining that treatment. Since it's all so different for everyone there is no one size fits all treatment, I think we all owe it to ourselves and our bodies to understand 100%completely what are our percentages of benefit before undertaking any form of treatment(s).

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Thank you for this. I’m weighing that decision right now and it’s been challenging to find others who decided against medication. I was on tamoxifen and almost ended up in the ER after a half marathon because of what it did to my muscles. I was switched to Letrozole after my hysterectomy and within two weeks could barely walk because of the joint pain. I’m two weeks out from being off the Letrozole and have asked to stay off anything until I travel for work in March. But then they want me to try examestane.