Good experience with tamoxifene (so far)
Hello,
Just wanted to add my experience taking tamoxifene to add some positivity to a place that has helped me a lot.
Its been 2 and a half months of taking it (20mg) and let me tell you that although for the first couple of weeks it was pretty rough (lots of hot flashes and insomnia), now other than the occasional hot flash and a bit of a back ache (which resolves with exercising and stretching) my experience with tamoxifene has not been that bad. Its pretty manageable.
Also, the reason foe my post is that Its been a year since I went to have a lump checked which turned out to be a shitty multifocal er+ IDC. As some here, went through ACT chemo, surgery and rads. I was pretty active in this forum but I havent visited it for 2 months and wont be much around tbh, but May is my cancerversary month, yay to me! And I just wanted to share my experience, that we can beat this fucker and feel fine, stronger everyday and with a growing mop of unruly white hair 😅
And even though I'm high risk of reccurrence, and Ill be on estrogen blockers for 10 tears, I try not to let that kidnap my life.😊
Wishing you all the very best.
Lots of love and understanding.
💙