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v-ness · 08-16-2012, 11:37 AM

wow, sorry to hear about the shoulder, and you are really doing such great work with the diet and exercise. it's frustrating to have to then cope with pain and failure to lose weight. on the up side, though, remember that if you're building muscle doing weight-lifting etc, you might not lose much. my boyfriend does CrossFit, which is brutal, 5x a week and has only lost 10 lbs, but his body has changed dramatically. and lord knows, weight lifting is excellent for our bones dealing not only with menopause and these bloody drugs.

that said, my onco took me off arimidex after my problems and now i am on femara. it's only been a work, but so far i've only noticed some insomnia. so i simply switched to taking it in the morning instead. slept like a baby last night. sure, arimidex is the first go-to drug, but it's not the only game in town. you can try asking your onco about femara and see if that works. valerie

08-16-2012, 11:37 AM	#8
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: Arimidex side effects wow, sorry to hear about the shoulder, and you are really doing such great work with the diet and exercise. it's frustrating to have to then cope with pain and failure to lose weight. on the up side, though, remember that if you're building muscle doing weight-lifting etc, you might not lose much. my boyfriend does CrossFit, which is brutal, 5x a week and has only lost 10 lbs, but his body has changed dramatically. and lord knows, weight lifting is excellent for our bones dealing not only with menopause and these bloody drugs. that said, my onco took me off arimidex after my problems and now i am on femara. it's only been a work, but so far i've only noticed some insomnia. so i simply switched to taking it in the morning instead. slept like a baby last night. sure, arimidex is the first go-to drug, but it's not the only game in town. you can try asking your onco about femara and see if that works. valerie __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!