ARIMIDEX Reviews (ANASTROZOLE)Average Rating: 2.5 (1431 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ARIMIDEX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ARIMIDEX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Estrogen fed BC | Neuropathy, hot flashes, nausea, muscle pain, joint pain and general malaise. | One starts to wonder whether quality of life is more important. Need input from Oncologist, but long wait time in BC. First BC, lumpectomy, chemo, radiation and 5yrs on arimidex. Second time 11 yes later BC other breast due to Her positive, stage 3, chemo to shrink and mastectomy followed by radiation. Pathology found small tumor of the same nature as first cancer. Have been on Arimidex 2.5 yrs and quality of life is awful. What to do?? Oncologist please respond. Thanks!! | F | 82 | 3 years 1mg 1X day | 3/30/2023 | 2 | breast cancer | pain in hands, hip, knees, back. brain fog, mood swings hot flashes, low energy | I am going to be 80 in December. I am going to stop taking this drug. I am trying to live a healthy life style. no smoking, no drinking, no meat, I take vitamins and drink plenty of water, I walk 30 minutes 5 times a week. I am going for quality of life as much or than longevity. come to think of it I believe I have already reached longevity! | F | 79 | 365 days 1 mg 1X day | 9/26/2018 | 2 | Stage 3 breast cancer | Crippling feet pain. It takes me a while to get going when I get up. Shoulder and neck pain. Occasional dry cough. Itchy scalp. | Won’t stop taking medication but would love to know any ideas on how to stop pain. Have tried acupuncture and a variety of vitamins. | F | 34 | 8 months 1 daily | 8/9/2019 | 2 | Breast Cancer | From Jaw to feet extreme joint pain. I had tried letrozle with similar pain. I am very active, 4 miles of walking a day and golf. Feel very old. | Will be stopping. Quality of my life more important. | F | 67 | 14 days 1mg | 3/19/2019 | 2 | BC stg 1, lumpectomy, radiation | After taking Tamoxifen for 2.5 years and experiencing horrible hot flashes, brain fog, plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendinitis, I was glad when my oncologist switched me to Arimidex after verifying I was now menopausal. WRONG!! This drug is destroying my quality of life- I feel like I am 90 years old. I have horrible neuropathathic pain in both arms and hands, terrible bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome,intense joint pain in shoulders, hips and knees. Trying to walk after being seated for 15 minutes or more is crazy- I limp as though recovering from a major injury. The pain is so bad at night I have trouble sleeping. My hands and arms are so weak I have trouble lifting heavy items. I am seriously thinking about stopping this drug because I am afraid the side effects will be permanent. I do not think I can handle two more years of this. | Weight management also difficult. | F | 53 | 7 months 1 MG 1X day | 4/1/2021 | 2 | DCIS and 2 small invasive tumors | Achy hip bones, sore butt, stiff legs, achy wrist , hair loss, regular night sweats, low energy, difficulty climbing stairs and walking . Felt like 20 yrs older.Symptoms did not appear until 9 months on medication | I went off due to quality of life as was active person, runner, weight lifting, etc. switched to Aromatose in May 2016. Minimal SE so far.0nly hot flashes but no hip , leg pain or stiffness | F | 72 | 1 years 1 mg | 10/27/2016 | 2 | Stage 2 no lymph nodes all clear | Ladies please look up the benefits of coffee enemas. You won't believe the good they do your liver. Look up more than one site. Read all you can read. I've been doing them for over a year now. I look forward to my morning coff enema | F | 56 | 1 years | 12/27/2016 | 2 | Stage1 Br HORM+ HER2-Lump/che/rad | it is only day 2 going on day 3 slight stomach discomfort dry throat coughing.I took two weeks before taking this medication only because of the side effect warnings before even finding this site. I did 6 sessions of CMF chemo and 15 rounds of radiation. The chemo caused me early menopause so the doctor suggested it over tamoxifin due to the increased risk of ovarian cancer and blood clots with tamoxifin. I feel like you re choosing one poison over the other. since my diagnosis I ve gained alot of weight after my treatments I have joint and bone pain at times teeth pain. I m constantly stretching but feel stiffness and my bones crack with I stand from my desk. I am staying positive and believe everyone is different but if my symptoms turn as severe as the ones I read so far I may have to rethink this. I pray for all you and that they find a better way where you dont have to choose between living and being alive. #FUCKCANCER | F | 46 | 2 days 1X day | 2/17/2017 | 1 | stage 2 breast cancer | Awful shoulder and debilitating hand/wrist pain | Stay away from this one | F | 53 | 4 months 1mg 1X day | 3/17/2017 | 1 | Had breast cancer | F | 75 | 4 months | 2/8/2017 | 1 | DCIS BC not in lymph nodes | Hot flashes, Low back pain, right rib pain which started 2 weeks after being this drug. Neck pain developed as well as tennis elbow and now have a bone spur in elbow. I have been in and out of physical therapy. Feel like I'm 90 years old. | After having a lumpectomy and radiation with a Savi device, I was put on this drug and have been on them for 2 years. I am supposed to be on them for 3 more years. I am going to be taking a 3 month vacation from these pills that my oncoligist said to do today. Hopefully all these issues will go away. If they do, I will now for sure that this drug is causing all my pain. | F | 67 | 1 MG 1X day | 4/13/2017 | 1 | Stage 1 grade 2 BC | Joint pain, bone pain, insomnia, anxiety, toe pain, knee pain, headaches, etc. | F | 62 | 5 years 1mg | 4/8/2017 | 1 | breast cancer followup | Hairline fractures in sacrum (due to calcium leaching), severe joint pain, weakness and stiffening | Was concerned that I would be unable to walk | F | 67 | 1.5 years 1 mg 1X day | 9/20/2017 | 1 | breast cancer | itching of head, severe weakness, no energy, severe muscle cramping, at times felt like someone was squeezing my ribs. loss of bladder/bowel, numb fingers and numb feet. bone pain in fingers. lost all strength in my body, could not walk in a wheelchair. could not write or use all fingers to type. hairloss. trigger finger/carpal tunnel, joint pain. after being off meds this oct 2 years.still numb feet and hands. cannot write well, cannot type, bone and joint pain. no muscle strength, i use a walker so i won't fall. fell 7 times this year 2017. still severe muscle cramping. i am wearing depends still no strength, | I hate this medicine. i have no good quality of life. it ruined my lifge | F | 69 | 1 years 1X day | 9/4/2017 | 1 | b c | horrible feeling | horrible drug | F | 40 | 1 days 1 1X day | 9/18/2017 | 1 | b cancer | Severe arthritis of spin and hip night sweated very tired all the time | I will not take them again | F | 68 | 2 years 30mg | 10/3/2017 | 1 | Breast cancer | Same as other patients, right arm started with feeling tired, pain ran up my shoulder and neck, started telling my doctors this medicine is doing this to me, they would say it's keep taking it , itch on my head, my eye sight, blurry, within less then a year, I could barely move my arm up! Well just happen before my 18, month one day pain shift from right to left arm, and it was worst, could barely turn my head to the left side, I cried, pain was worst now. Thank God I was seeing the oncology on that Monday , nurse ask how are you, I told her and said I've been telling doctors that it's that medicine, she said YES, there's a lot of complaints on it, they took me off and slowly all my pains went away!! Only thing is that I believe it has messed up my kidney within that time my primary doctor has notice I am loosing protein in my urine, never had that problem before. After my surgery, on my following week surgeon was amaze that there was nothing, I had change my diet, for 42 days before my surgery, and I believe that did it! | Get rid of this arimidex. | F | 73 | 18 months 1mg | 10/16/2017 | 1 | Breast cancer | Hot flashes, extreme vaginal dryness with bleeding after very painful vaginal exams, had very painful sex but now I am a widow.(only advantage)! I have back and knee pain, trigger fingers, weight gain. | My doctor just me to keep taking it and I am afraid to quit. I took tamoxifen for about 25 years to prevent breast cancer in the first place, as both my sisters had it, but I got it anyway. I was unable to have a vaginal ultrasound due to inability to insert the probe. I told her to go ahead anyway but she said she couldn't, probably because I was about to jump off the table in agony. I felt like my skin was being ripped apart and I did bleed after that. | F | 63 | 5 years 30 1X day | 4/24/2017 | 1 | Stage 1 Breast Cancer | I just finished radiation treatments for stage 1 breast cancer, all margins were good and lymph nodes were clean, Oncologist prescribed Arimedex but after reading all the side effects I'm considering not taking the drug, I have a 6% chance of cancer re-occurence with out the drug and a 10% with the drug, I already have degeneration in disc in my back and hip pain, This medicine is known to soften bone tissue and cause pain leg and joint pain, so I ask myself, do I want to take something that is going to make this pain worse and then have to take a pain medicine that is addictive, loose my hair, gain weight, cause skin,eye and mouth and dryness.(have sjogrens syndrome so eyes and mouth are already dry) or just take my chances. I wonder how many doctors would take this drug if in the same situation. | F | 0 days | 5/5/2017 | 1 | breast cancer | I already had pain from arthritis and spinal compression. I can deal with it. Pain from Arimidex was total body, white-hot, searing, debilitating pain. | One size fits all? Research stopped short of determining effective dosing for women of different weight. | F | 71 | 4 days 1mg | 5/7/2017 |