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Laurel · 06-29-2010, 06:59 PM

Hear! Hear! Chiming in on the anti-estrogens suck thread! I know I am counting the months until I finish my hormone deprivation therapy! Do not even try to talk to me about another 5 years.

I chug along and try not to fuss about it figuring this too is my lot in life, but for docs to express surprise that patients blow off their treatment means they have no comprehension of how great the suffering is for most of those subjected to the therapy, and frankly that is plain pathetic.

Ok. Venting again tonight! Sorry.

06-29-2010, 06:59 PM	#5
Laurel Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hershey, PA. Live The Sweet Life! Posts: 2,005	Re: Half of breast cancer patients treated with antihormonals are noncompliant ie, do Hear! Hear! Chiming in on the anti-estrogens suck thread! I know I am counting the months until I finish my hormone deprivation therapy! Do not even try to talk to me about another 5 years. I chug along and try not to fuss about it figuring this too is my lot in life, but for docs to express surprise that patients blow off their treatment means they have no comprehension of how great the suffering is for most of those subjected to the therapy, and frankly that is plain pathetic. Ok. Venting again tonight! Sorry. __________________ Smile On! Laurel Dx'd w/multifocal DCIS/IDS 3/08 7mm invasive component Partial mast. 5/08 Stage 1b, ER 80%, PR 90%, HER-2 6.9 on FISH 0/5 nodes 4 AC, 4 TH finished 9/08 Herceptin every 3 weeks. Finished 7/09 Tamoxifen 10/08. Switched to Femara 8/09 Bilat SPM w/reconstruction 10/08 Clinical Trial w/Clondronate 12/08 Stopped Clondronate--too hard on my gizzard! Switched back to Tamoxifen due to tendon pain from Femara 15 Years NED I think I just might hang around awhile....