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

Ive been ok except for the joint pains, Anxiety from Time to time, and no energy from time to time also.

Welcome, @chris2024. I see that you included 2024 in your username to keep your focus on your goal of continuing treatment until October 2024. I can sympathize that you're tired of feeling the aches and pains, and sometimes anxiety. It's tough.

Does it help you to focus on "who" or "what" your taking the medication for? A loved one? An upcoming important event?

Nothing is ever “ in your head”. We BC survivors are hyper vigilant in our bodies, generally speaking, we know that we feel everything. When hormones have been, thankfully, minimized for 5 years and then suddenly not… my bet is we are going to notice!

Good for you that you were able to complete your treatment. BRAVA!
Now you may need to give this body time to adjust to no med 🌸

agree...taper off should be better....i was instructed
to just stop.....oh boy... w/i two weeks, my immune
system went crazy. severe fatigue, then depression, then bowels (constipation or loose bowels). had itchy head whole time i was taking med, still have. i had very few problems while taking med. Making up for it now....HA!

I have a question. I've been on anastrozole. since 2019 now my oncologist I had till this year, and another person said no I'm not finish till 2024 I thought we count the first year we start it. 2019 through 2023 would be 5 years.

My body has so many aches and pains since being on this medication, my memory seems to be now getting fuzzy.

Another question why we can't just instead of taking 7 days a week maybe take it every other day. what would be the difference. Maybe we won't be in so much misery.

Kind of.
I thought I would be done in 2023 since I started in 2019 not sure when or how they count the 5 years.

I don't see why we can't just take it for 3 or 4 days out of seven days in the fifth year. the medicine is still getting into our system.

That would also help us in trying to go back to normal when we stop it completely. I feel like my life is diminishing slowly.

I have a question brain fog has set in lol. what year you started and stop taking, it. I'm going to talk to my oncologist about being able to take it for only 4 days a week and slowly stop taking it. as the 5th year approaches.

started 1/2018, stopped 10/2022

I stopped anastrocele 6 months ago and o have an excessive weight gain is this a side effect?

I am sorry to hear that. How are you feeling?