[Becky]

Femara is used off label to assist in helping women going under invitro to produce more eggs for harvest.

If you search back to the summer of 2005, you will see my panicked posts about getting my period back while on Arimidex. I had been on Tamoxifen about 2 months but wanted to be on an AI due to being Her2 and having no progesterone receptor and only a moderate estrogen receptor. That said, I felt I was a great candidate for Tamoxifen resistance. Since my period hadn't returned and I was 46, I had my onc run my hormones (FSH, LH and estradiol) and it showed I was postmenopausal so I switched to Arimidex just prior to starting Herceptin (4 months after my last Taxol). This was mid June. In the beginning of August my period returned. I stopped Arimidex (as it is useless in this situation) and called my gyne. Three weeks later I had an ooph and a couple of weeks after that I restarted the Arimidex.

When I went to the gyne for a presurgical ultrasound, it was clear I was up and running with a double ovulation on my left ovary and the ovaries were clearly functioning. (Thankfully my husband had a vasectomy many years prior or I could have gotten nabbed with twins only a few months out from treatment and wouldn't have be able to be on an antihormonal or Herceptin). Just call me mama!