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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ARIMIDEX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Stage 2 Her2 Positive Breast Cancer | Joint pain, swelling of the ankles, stomach pain,extremly tired.trouble getting up after sitting for a while.over all feelng of sickness. | Had chemo followed by radiation and Herceptin.I was put on Tamoxafin for two and a half years then was switched to Arimidex for two and a half years.My treatment was suppose to end in December of 2011. I was diagnosed in Nov. of 2005 and have been Cancer free since then. My oncologist just told me that a new study has shown that women that stayed on this type of medicine ( Arimidex) for an additional 5 years have an even better chance of NOT getting a recurrence. Has anyone else heard about this? I have to decide if I'm going to do this for 5 more years or not.I don't know if I can take the side effects for another five years. Please let me know if anyone else has been told the same thing. | F | 51 | 2 years 1mg 1X day | 11/29/2011 | 4 | Inv BC stage 2/3; nodes - yes; | Serious muscle/bone pain to the point that I could hardly walk let alone get out of a chair or climb steps. Shooting leg pains. Pains in hips, knees and ankles. Tingling in hands and feet that stopped on my 2 week hiatus from it. Had to get Handicap Card. Ache all over, all the time. Weight gain. Hot flashes. | I originally wrote in Dec 2010. I was having awful side effects and my ankles felt so brittle I could hardly walk. After trying half doses, a 2 week break, aromasin, etc., I asked my dr to put me back on the BRAND. I took nothing for 2 weeks. Have been taking the brand now for over a month and I am feeling so much better. My ankles aren't swollen and they don't feel brittle. I still get tired and have some muscle pain and tingling (lyrica helps that) but now have a quality of life. My ct scan this week was great and all is STABLE. Shame the insurance won't pay the difference but my life is better so I will continue to stay on the brand. | F | 64 | 15 months 1mg 1X day | 7/13/2011 | 4 | hormone+/invasive breast cancer | Joint pain early on, take silicium, omega-3, gingko. Weight gain, gym classes regularly, mountain walking. | i am lucky i have been able to cope with the side effects although the reduced level of energy is saddening. I am interested to know whether I will have any side effects when I stop taking A. in October this year. | F | 68 | 9.5 years 1 MG 1X day | 7/26/2011 | 4 | stage 3 metatastic breast cancer | I am having extreme fatigue and brain fog. i have pain in most of my joints, especially the knees and wrists. My feet and legs hurt after sitting for any length of time and makes getting around very difficult. | Despite the terrible side effects the medicine is working for me and I am able to avoid a 2nd round of chemo. I am seriously considering stopping it after my lesions have cleared. This medicine has affected all aspects of my life and I do want to live to see my grandchildren but my youngest now is 7 and he needs a mom, not 90 year old zombie! | F | 45 | 8 months 1mg 1X day | 6/14/2011 | 4 | Stage 1a IDC grade 2 9mm tumor | So far no side effects. | Surgical menopause 15 years ago...used Climara 7 years but no flashes when I quit so ob-gyn thinks I may not get any now. I hope he's right! I will update along my journey. | F | 58 | 9 days | 7/26/2016 | 4 | 0 stage breast cancer | I've been taking it for only 2 weeks and haven't experienced hardly any side effects. Just a slight headache and minor hot flashes at night. I exercise regularly and take vitamin D and calcium tablets. | Will provide an update after 6 months. I hope my review will be the same. | F | 61 | 2 weeks 1MG | 7/7/2016 | 4 | BC | NO Side Effects with TEVA Brand Do NOT take Accord Brand my pharmacy switched to Accord and I immediately had horrible joint pain and got a period after not having one for 2 years and had tested menopausal. | Accord brand should be taken off the market restarted my period after only taking this brand 16 days....had no problems with TEVA now I may have to go back to Tamoxifen which I despised!!!! So upset. | F | 47 | 6 months | 7/25/2016 | 4 | breast cancer stg3 | Bad joint pain, weight gain | Started this at the end of 2012 after cancer in the breast and lymph nodes. I do have joint pain and cant lose weight at all. My feet and ankles are really bad at times so i dont even want to stand but noone else is going to bring the money home so i have to get up and get on with it. I've been on these for 3.5 years so far and the docs would like me to stay on them for another 5 years after this 5. I will do because the younger you are the longer you've got for the disease to come back. If they keep it away I'm all up for that. Better than dying from cancer. | F | 49 | 3 years | 4/10/2016 | 4 | Breast Cancer IIB with recurrance | headaches, back pain, neck pain, dry mouth and eyes | I will continue this medication, I had B/C IIA and had lumpectomy and chemo, no radiation, no medication. 1 year later B/C came back in scar and lymph nodes. I will take this med as long as I need to. I will take a 2 day break once in awhile if symptoms get too bad, then i'm right back on it. | F | 54 | 17 months 1mg 1X day | 4/18/2016 | 4 | breast cancer stage 1 | no major side effects. however the only thing i want to do on the weekend is absolutely nothing. i looked at this site to see if this might be connected. i planned on going zip lining today, but watched TV instead. just went to the onocologist last week, she is very interested in every pain i have - any given pain goes away. then i have another pain that pops up somewhere else. thinking about talking to my doctor about antidepressents. overall - my chance of getting cancer again was 40% now it's 4%. just need to find some zip in my life. i work full time (+) in a stressful job. that might be the reason for fatigue and normal aches and pains | F | 58 | 18 months 1 mg 1X day | 6/13/2015 | 4 | Breast Cancer | Insomnia...I can't get to sleep and I wake up early, blurred vision, I think this drug is making me itch everywhere! Daily headaches, hot flashes, joint pain. I know the insomnia is from the medication because it started as soon as I went on the meds. | I am really tired from lack of sleep. I got on this drug when Aromasin suddenly started giving me migraines everyday. The itching is really getting to me. I have 7 more months on it and that will be 5 years of this cancer treatment for Breast Cancer. | F | 53 | 5 months 1 mg 1X day | 4/9/2014 | 4 | Stage1 breast cancer | This is the medication from hell. Every side effect possible. But I will keep taking it cause don't want cancer to come back | F | 59 | 2 years 1mg | 4/22/2014 | 4 | Breast Cancer Stage 3A | Hot flashes that went away in the first few months, depression, fatigue, osteopenia, high cholesterol levels, and the worst was joint and muscle pain. | I tried exercise and it really helped the joint and muscle pain. I go to the gym 4 times a week. 45 minutes on weight training and 30 min on weight bearing cardio. This takes a lot of time but I no longer have the joint/muscle aches except for the top of my feet. I haven't figured out how to work those muscles. I would like to quit the gym and Arimidex but I know it is helping. Exercise has also helped to greatly lower my cholesterol levels and to slightly reverse my osteopenia. After a double mastectomy, chemo , and radiation, I am not giving up now even though I still hate going to the gym. | F | 57 | 3 years 1 mg 1X day | 6/10/2014 | 4 | breast CA; mastectomy; no lymph | joint pain, depression, emotional episodes, thinning hair but not loss | Joint pain is very real with this drug. I had bad knees before taking arimidex, but they got so bad I had a double knee replacement. Now, they are not much better than they were. Mostly, stiffness, some pain. I think arimidex enhanced the arthritis pain --- doc said my knees "were shot" after he did surgery, but I am convinced that arimidex has a lot to do with it. Hope it is reversible when I stop taking this drug, if I ever stop. Don't rush into joint replacement if you are on this drug. Wait and see what it's like when you stop taking arimidex. | F | 69 | 3 years 1 mg 1X day | 6/15/2014 | 4 | breast cancer stage 1 post op | No side effects at all and I'm 60 yrs. old. | After reading so many bad reviews, I had decided that if I were going to suffer bad side effects, I would rather take my chances on getting cancer again, especially since I had the bilateral mastectomy and the cancer did not spread to the lymph nodes. I figured my chances are pretty good for a non-recurrence of this cancer. Fortunately, at 47 days of taking Arimidex, I have not suffered any side effects. I was dreading the hot flashes as they were unbearable when I was going through menopause. So far, so good with Arimidex! | F | 60 | 47 days 1mg 1X day | 9/27/2013 | 4 | Breast Cancer stage 2, - lymph node | sharp pain in upper arms, extreme fatigue, hair loss, pain bottom of feet | HAD BILATERAL MASECTOMIES WITH IMMEDIATE RECONSTRUCTION X 3 MONTHS. | F | 55 | 4 months 1X day | 1/15/2014 | 4 | Cancer free. But just had double knee replacement surgery because even before the cancer my knees were in bad shape. Doc doubts that arimidex affected my bones, but the joint pain could have been enhanced by arimidex. I'll never know. My body has been through the wringer with anethesia, pain killers, and arimidex continuing. Fatigue is major symptom with depression right up there. Of course I feel like crap, but if the arimidex keeps me cancer free, it will have been worth it. | My doc has added calcium and Vit D 2000 iu per day since being put on arimidex. I make sure I take extra protein, Vit C, E, A and a multi vit with iron. I also have liver issues prior to cancer so adding things like iron and Vit E have to be managed by the doc. | F | 68 | 2.5 years 1 mg 1X day | 2/8/2014 | 4 | breast cancer | Weight gain, joint pain, total loss of interest in sex... | What happens after 5 years, | F | 46 | 5 years | 2/18/2015 | 4 | Stage 1 breast cancer | joint pain, male-pattern baldness | F | 66 | 8 years 1 mg 1X day | 1/9/2015 | 4 | breast cancer | joint pain badly in hands and feet, tired, no energe and really same effects as others more recently eye problems | I almost gave up taking it because the side effects were so bad however I persevered and for me 3.5 years in and really apart from minor probs and I think eye probs now my symptoms have been gone for the last 6 months. I have one more year on this drug. To combat the severe problems I cut my pill in half each day and took morning and evening and this did seem to help. Since the symptoms eased I have taken one dose per day. I have exercised throughout and managed not to put on any extra weight. The joint pain and tiredness is awful particularly in the winter so my sympathies go out to all taking this drug as the decision of whether to continue with it is a hard decision. | F | 62 | 4 years 10 1X day | 8/12/2014 |