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Thanks, Colleen. I feel we lobsters are a little bit of a unique group and the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/735701/

Discussion: Lobular Breast Cancer: Let's share and support each other

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Aug 9, 2022

@lisajoann so you had 9 years of hormonal therapy. That's great! I think doing both tamoxifen...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/727771/

Discussion: Is there anyone that had estrogen positive cancer, without use of AI?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jul 17, 2022

Hi all. I am taking tamoxifen for over a year after trying all of the other...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/697997/

Discussion: What problems have you had with Tamoxifen?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Apr 11, 2022

I took tamoxifen for 5, then anastrozole for 10. I believe I should have stayed on...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/739930/

Discussion: Are Aromatase Inhibitors prescribed Longer than 10 years?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Aug 21, 2022

@mugs24cancer, I'm so sorry to hear about your reaction to Tamoxifen. I'm now taking it when...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/312327/

Discussion: Anyone had nausea as a side effect of tamoxifen? What helps?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: May 29, 2020

I have Chek 2 and have been treated for prostate and breast cancer. I see my...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/744617/

Discussion: Genetic testing...does anyone have the CHEK2 gene mutation?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 2, 2022

Hi I am not taking a holiday but switching from tamoxifen to anastrazole and there should...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/960826/

Discussion: Can I take a break between different antiestrogen treatments?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Nov 7, 2023

Hi. I am also on Tamoxifen and have shortness of breath and leg cramps. I increased...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/715750/

Discussion: Anyone read " How To Starve Cancer" yet ?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 9, 2022

Turns out my risk is even higher than 30%. Mayo recent study shows a much lower...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/257093/

Discussion: The math of invasive breast cancer risk for LCIS

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Nov 28, 2019

I only have been on tamoxifen for 7 months. Barely noticed side effects other than occasional...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/987333/

Discussion: Opting out of radiation or chemo

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Dec 27, 2023

My biopsy revealed ALH after having micro calcifications on a mammogram. I opted for the lumpectomy....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/808254/

Discussion: Atypical lobular hyperplasia: Did you have surgery?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Feb 8, 2023

I’m on tamoxifen. For me the drug blocks the estrogen receptors in the breast but has...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/978791/

Discussion: DCIS breast cancer?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Dec 11, 2023

@songsparrow you raise a really really good point. Ther is recurrence locally, regionally, and then there...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/809440/

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

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Feb 10, 2023

Hi, Just finished 20 rounds of radiation. ILC lumpectomy. Declined tamoxifen due to unopposed estrogen risk...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1027779/

Discussion: 7mm invasive ductal carcinoma

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Mar 5 5:47am

The Breast Clinic Team Member did say 100% would mean Tamoxifen would be more effective...but it...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/853025/

Discussion: 100% ER+ 100% PR+ HERS2- How common is the 100% diagnosis?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: May 2, 2023

I got my lymphedema months after my BC diagnosis and a year later is when I...

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Discussion: Tamoxifen and Lymphedema

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: May 24, 2023

Hi Creeder! Some of us have been there. I just completed my first year of Tamoxifen....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/673652/

Discussion: Did you gain weight on Tamoxifen? What helps?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 21, 2022

I'm wondering if anyone has explored tamoxifen hair loss in the context of not only how...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/694890/

Discussion: What problems have you had with Tamoxifen?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Mar 31, 2022

Tamoxifen side effects do differ for premenopausal, early postmenopausal and older postmenopausal. And then there is...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1013007/

Discussion: Tamoxifen and mental health

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Feb 10 9:15am

Everyone's experience is different, and you may have no or minimal side effects. I was on...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/993061/

Discussion: Concerned about the side effects of anastrozole

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 7 10:23am

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