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@eku

Hello,
I've been on anastrozole for 14 months. Started to have locking and numbness on my right ring finger around month 6. Went to OT/PT for about 6 weeks. It helped but it never healed completely. Then I started having trigger finger on my right thumb. It is not severe as in a complete lock but I was not able to do certain things such as holding a pen and it was painful to release. Oncologist referred to orthopedics. She gave a cortisone (celestone) shot to my thumb. It's been 3 weeks. Better but now I have a subtle thumb pain (not a locking though) and when I move my right and left fingers (open/close), they are not the same. There's as if a "weight" on the right. I'm sorry I couldn't picture a relief. I, too, asked a fellow poster about the exercises they were doing for their fingers, waiting for a response.

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Sure seems like it usnt just my imagination. The shot did help my thumb but wish it would have been longer than 2 months.
It does seem to be moving a bit.more now that I took a two week off anastrozole then switched to.exemestane. hopefully it'll stay this way.