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 |
| 1 | Stage 2 breast cancer | Joint pain in big toes for 2 months and then it resolved itself. Severe joint pain began in left hand knuckle of middle finger and spread to other knuckles and fingers of ring and pinkie. Trigger finger, especially at night. Spread to right hand the same as left. Stopped taking medication for 2 weeks now and still getting worse instead of better. Began a 6 day/21 pill pack of Methylprednisolone, pain and swelling 80% better, 4 days in pack. Hoping it continues to relieve the pain and swelling caused by this medication. Would never take it again. | F | 54 | 6 months 1mg 1X day | 10/26/2016 | 1 | Breast cancer | My joints, my joints, did I say joints? Hot flashes, cough, tired, pain, insomnia, headache in temples, 8 trigger fingers. | Poison | F | 65 | 4 months 10mg | 11/2/2016 | 1 | stage 1 bc | Body aches and pains, weight gain of 15 kg, stiffness and pain in fingers and toes. Right now I am limping around because my left ankle and leg are getting really sore, so much so that I can't work. Yet to have a diagnosis on this. Seems they hav no idea. Would love to know if it is the arimidex. I feel like I've aged 15 yrs. Don't know if it's worth it. :( | I hate it. No way I am taking it for 10 years. | F | 51 | 1 years 1 x day | 9/29/2016 | 1 | Breast Cancer | Severe Joint Pain, Depression, Shoulder Pain, pain in feet, Quality of life decline, confusion, dizzines, acne | This is the worse medication for side effects I've ever taken. Worse than the Chemo and radiation combined. Even worse than Herceptin side effects | F | 59 | 2 years 1 mg 1X day | 9/19/2016 | 1 | breast cancer | Severe joint and bone pain. Vision with eye pressure. Weight gain Severe fatigue Hair loss High blood pressure Did I mention severe bone/joint pain? | I took Arimidex for 4 years and 2 months. Cannot take any longer. Have to think of quality of life | F | 55 | 4 years 1'mg 1X day | 8/28/2016 | 1 | Had breast cancer | Feet and hand pain lower abdominal pain depression backache | I'm normally happy and reasonably active, but feel like an old woman on anastrozole shuffling along | F | 68 | 6 months 1mg | 2/22/2018 | 1 | BC stage 2 | All side effects that everyone else on here has had!!! | 2009 BC stage 2. 6mm tumor, 11 nodes removed, one had cancer. Did four rounds of chemo, 33 treatments of radiation everyday. Put on this terrible little white pill. Side effects were just horrible. Stopped taking it on my own after 6 months. Now 2011, MRI done two months ago, everything normal. May 13, 2011 mammo and ultra sound done, everything normal. Port taken out May 19th. I feel so alive again after stopping this terrible pill. No more pain in joints, back to my normal weight, more energy. Up and down stairs without feeling like I am 100 years old. Life is good again without ARIMIDEX!! | F | 67 | 6 months 1 mg 1X day | 5/20/2011 | 1 | Breast cancer stage 2b | hideous! Weight gain, hair loss and bone pain nearly unbearable. Like all other comments here- one year may be possible but 5? I am 60. Do I want to live like I am 90 for 4 more precious years? I don't know what to do really. | F | 60 | 1 years 50mg 1X day | 5/18/2011 | 1 | Breast cancer stage 2 | F | 49 | 15 months same as yo 1X day | 4/27/2011 Patient History | 1 | BC Stage 1 | Extreme shooting pain down my entire left leg- and I feel like I am 90! Can't work out- wake up at night in extreme pain! ASKED MY ONCOLOGIST- HE SUGGESTED GOING OF IT FOR A WEEK BUT SAID HE'D NEVER HEARD OF THIS DRUG CAUSING PAIN LIKE THIS..... | F | 50 | 10 days 30mg 1X day | 5/19/2011 | 1 | stage 1 breast cancer no nodes invo | I took it the first day and felt a sick head pressure and pain through my temples and forehead, not a headache. 2nd day the pressure/pain more intense. Fuzzy brained, couldn't concentrate sleepless, kept waking up tightening in my chest. I quit the meds. as I called the dr. and his nurse said to stop. After two weeks, my sleep is still not normal. It took days for the head pressure to leave. I got Sciatica too. Pain in my fingers. | F | 67 | 2 days 20 mg 1X day | 7/27/2011 | 1 | stage 2 breast cancer | so tired al the time and joint pain all over, hands and knees so stiff it takes me a couple of hours after taking pain meds in the morning to get going. | wonder if it's worth continuing | F | 62 | 1 years 1mg 1X day | 7/9/2011 | 1 | stage 1 bc | nausea, joint pain, dizzy, weak, hot flashes, headaches, can't concentrate | nausea all the time, joint pain everywhere, dizzy, I always feel like I'm drugged on sleeping meds. I'm weak and shaky all the time. My fingers don't work and feel weird, kind of numb. The hot flashes are really intense and makes me feel like I'm going to vomit. I always feel like my sugar levels have dropped, like I haven't eaten for a long time. I'm not usually hungry. I've lost a little weight. | F | 43 | 2 months 1MG 1X day | 12/26/2011 | 1 | BC Stage 2, in 1 node, lumpectomy | None - I stood up to my oncologist(s) and told them I was NOT going to take Armidex. Thanks to you on this website! | I decided my body had had enough poison with chemo & radiation after being dx in 8/09. I said NO to my oncologist who said I needed to take arimidex. She then suggested I try to loose weight. I am down 18 pounds so far and feel fine. I asked her if she would take it if she was in my shoes and she would not give me a straight answer. Yes, I maybe taking a chance but you poor women who are on this and hurt/feel old - GET OFF of it! - just because a doctor says you should take it does not mean it's good for you. Eat right,excercise, take a greens drink and turmeric daily and stay away from processed foods. I just had to change oncologists and he is preaching at me to take it too - I flat out told him NO, and that's my final answer. Those of you who are at the point of being told you need to take it -think hard on your decision. It might be too late once you start and for some it sounds like the damage is irreversible. I don't regret my decision not to take and if the cancer comes back, so be it. I just know in my gut that this drug is not the answer for me. | F | 55 | 0 days n/a 1X day | 3/6/2012 | 1 | Not taking it...had stage 1 BC | I was diagnosed with stage 1 IDC in 2005....my onc told me I would be on Arimidex for 5 years. I did my research and after finding inconclusive findings and severe complications recorded and getting all those wonderful welcoming gifts from Astra Zeneca, I came to the conclusion, I would not make both the drug company and my onc wealthier at the risk of damaging my prolong health! I am so happy I did not take the drug and I am still cancer free!!! | F | 54 | 0 days 0 1X day | 12/18/2011 | 1 | Breast Cancer, Stage 1, Node Clean | Aches and pains that were abnormal. Knee pain so stiff and painful (especially after sitting for any length of time--like at work)--that I limped. Elbow pain similar to tennis elbow. Tingling in my right hand/fingers. Constipation. Gained ~10 pounds. Just started not sleeping through the night. Not just waking up, but not being able to fall back to sleep--like wide awake. | I think I could've dealt with all the side effects, but not the joint pains and weight gain (which makes the joint pain worse). I'm very physically active, so the fact that I could still gain weight while being active was disturbing. Not sure where the end point of the pain and weight gain was going to be, but I am not sticking around to find out. Stopped taking this only 2 months in. My oncologist doesn't know yet, but I have my mind made up. You're not going to turn me into a 95 year old lady yet. Sorry!!! Bottom line, I am cancer free. You are making me take a drug to prevent recurrence. There's NO guarantee it will work. It's like telling me I have a 25% chance of a heart attack, so take this drug which will do all these CRAZY things to you, and "PERHAPS" you might not have a heart attack. REALLY?? I do believe that everyone needs to at least TRY the drug if their doctor recommends it, but remember, YOU are the person that decides the quality of your life and whether or not you will continue on something that makes you feel like total crap and ruins your performance in the things in life that you enjoy. If you are not enjoying life, then why continue? | F | 57 | 2 months 1 mg 1X day | 1/6/2018 | 1 | BC stage 2 | Hip pain, weight gain, out of breath,finger pain, and everything in between | Update: 2009 Stage 2 BC. 6mm tumor, 11 nodes removed. Four rounds of Chemo, 33 treatments of Radiation every day. Put on this terrible drug, took it for 6 months and felt like I was 100 years old. Took myself off of it. And started to regain my life back. On Friday Dec 9th 2011 had another MRI done. Results..crystal clean. NO CANCER!! ( without ARIMIDEX or any other drug) Maybe I'm just a lucky one, maybe I had wonderful doctors. But the fact is taking this horrible pill for six months was sucking the life out of me. So to all of you in pain and feeling like crap all the time I say Good Luck to you and hope for you that this little white pill works. The best to you in the new year!! | F | 67 | 6 months 1X day | 12/14/2011 | 1 | microscopic invasive ductal carcino | Two weeks in Carpal tunnel, then osteopenia, damage to kidneys, liver, and possibly gallbladder, bone agony. | Had less than 1mm microscopic breast cancer, so had lumpectomy, mastectomy and 13 nodes removed then Tamoxifen, it didnt work and caused cysts and myomas and high estrodial, so had oopherectomy and hysterectomy. Switched to Arimidex and now have worse osteopenia where I cannot walk some days, and have found out that one kidney is atrophic, the other damaged, liver cysts, gallbladder polyps and lymphadema. I think the Oopherectomy and Arimidex are turning my bones to powder and the rest is one huge medical and medication catastrophe! How am I to be a mother to four children when I am wrecked and incapable, no longer the strong mother but the old sad, crippled woman! | F | 51 | 15 months 30 mg 1X day | 12/5/2011 | 1 | Microscopic breast cancer | Started with Carpul tunnel, hot flashes, weight gain, depression, inflammation of joints, organ and bone pain, palpatations, tiredness. | Two weeks into Arimidex and I felt that I had stepped onto the road to hell. Carpul tunnel started in my fingers, mobility declined, I could hardly walk, depression, morbidity, fear, pain, liver started to become heterogeneous, cysts formed (I dont know if this is linked but it wasnt all found before Arimidex), my kidney is atrophic, and gallbladder problems. Not sure if they are linked with Arimidex or Tamoxifen which caused another list of side effects which ended up with several operations, and counting. My oncologist told me that I was to stop Arimidex for six months as I showed her the nuclear scan that showed inflammation on feet and knee joints. Not put me onto anything else due to organ problems and the fact that Tamoxifen messed me up to, so there doesnt seem to be any alternative for me, so now I am damaged more, and unprotected. But I must add that the pain has almost deminished after two weeks, I feel happier, the depression still has lifted (not the worry as too many health issues), I am more mobile now, no more hot flashes. Good luck to those who do not have side effects and my sympathies to those that do. | F | 51 | 16 months 1X day | 1/30/2012 | 1 | Bresast Cancer - 3x | Joint PAIN, numbness in feet, thin hair, sleep problems, | After BC #1, I was not given any drugs as I was premenopausal. (Ovaries taken out in between cancers.) Almost 10 yrs later, I *age 48) was diagnosed with a new primary BC. After BC#2, I took tamoxifin for a short time (3-4 months). I was switched to Arimidex, which I took for almost 3 years. I took myself off – I was literally at a Race for the Cure & could not finish the walk, my feet were in such pain & had gone numb. From Arimidex, I had weight gain, headaches, severe joint pain, sleep issues, but as many say I was 50 walking like an 80 yr old. Now, I have another new primary BC, BC #3 - 6 yrs after last cancer. Dr wants to put me on Femara, BUT what I have read here - - my decision is NOT! I can’t risk more weight gain, blood pressure or bone issues. Thanks to everyone for writing their experience. Being able to walk & exercise is too important to me to give it up again. Quality of life is a must! | F | 55 | 1X day | 1/31/2012 |