NOLVADEX Reviews (TAMOXIFEN CITRATE)Average Rating: 2.7 (115 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NOLVADEX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NOLVADEX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Low Grade Ovarian Cancer | Weight Gain, Terrible Sleep problems, sleep deprivation, anxiety, depression dryness, | It did slow the progression of the tumors. It was hell. | F | 36 | 8 months | 3/18/2006 | 2 | Breast Cancer - Stage 1 | Hot flashes and night sweats at first which subsided after a couple of months of being on the drug. After about 5-6 months, I started noticing my memory failing and feeling like I was foggy a lot, which progressively got worse (my family even noticed!). I went off of it for a month and the side effect subsided. My doctor then switched me to Arimidex. | F | 40 | 11 months | 3/15/2006 | 1 | post mastectomy for BrCA | Male. Yeah, that's not a mis-click. Leg weakness & knee pain (couldn't get out of a car without hauling myself up); brain fog | Was switched to aromatase inhibitor. Luckily I have a drug plan. It's all guesswork for guys with BrCA. Not enough of us in one place to put together for any studies. Until then, we're just like women. | M | 60 | 4 months | 12/5/2005 | 1 | To prevent recurrence | Anxiety, increased vaginal secretions, constant sense of pressure in the uterus. Slept badly most nights. Knee joints hurt constantly. | I already had an ovarian cyst removed during my second pregnancy. I didn't need to worry about getting cancer of the uterus on top of worrying about recurrence. Also I was worried about tamoxifen being toxic to my liver in the long run. I stopped after 5 weeks. Felt immediately better. Am now on Arimidex. | F | 49 | 5 weeks | 8/30/2005 | 1 | Quite advanced breast cancer | Hot flushes, but less vaginal dryness than I had on Lupron (known as Prostap in the UK). It didn't control my (very oestrogen sensitive) cancer - the metastases in my liver got worse, and the cancer in my lymph nodes got worse - and I seem to have got cancer in my right leg as well, in the bone (femur). Also, a scan detected a | Didn't work for me. I was right to avoid it in the first place. I tried it as an alternative to Lupron, but it seems it had adverse effects on my uterus. | 48 | 6 months | 5/10/2005 | 1 | Quite advanced breast cancer | Hot flushes, but less vaginal dryness than I had on Lupron (known as Prostap in the UK). It didn't control my (very oestrogen sensitive) cancer - the metastases in my liver got worse, and the cancer in my lymph nodes got worse - and I seem to have got cancer in my right leg as well, in the bone (femur). | Didn't work for me. Also, a scan detected a | 48 | 6 months | 5/10/2005 | 1 | Advanced breast cancer | Why is this site not showing my whole message ? It keeps cutting out the last part ... I wanted to mention that the drug caused a large UTERINE FIBROID, which I had NEVER had before. | Didn't work for my (very oestrogen sensitive) cancer. Side effects on womb. I found Lupron (Prostap) to be better. | F | 48 | 6 months | 5/10/2005 | 4 | prevent recurrence of breast cancer | hot flashes (very mild and few, maybe 3-4/day) | F | 50 | 1.5 years | 3/13/2005 | 3 | Stage 2 breast cancer | Vaginal dryness, infrequent leg and back cramps, weight gain (or at least that's what I'm blaming it on) | My onc wants mt to switch to one of the newer AIs when I get to 2 years on Tamoxifen. Since Tamoxifen's been pretty easy for me, I'm nervous about the switch. However, I'll take anything to keep recurrance away! | F | 58 | 18 months | 3/13/2005 | 4 | breast cancer | loss of sexual interest, ovarian cysts, diarhea, hot flashes. | Have started getting Zoladex shots to counter-act the continous problem with ovarian cysts. Hate that one med leads to another..... | F | 39 | 2 years | 1/26/2005 | 2 | breast cancer | Fatigue, achy joints, cramps, weight gain. I stopped taking it for one month and felt a lot better without it. I don't feel healthy when I take it. Of course, there's no way to know if it's really working. I continue to take it hoping to stay cancer-free. | F | 44 | 14 months | 11/2/2004 | 4 | breast cancer | The side effects that I experienced were not too bad. I had "hot flashes" fairly often. I stayed on it for my designated five years. | Unknown to me, my radiologists were watching "somethings" in my liver for two years. Two months after I got off of the Nolvadex, we discovered that I have 5 cancerous tumors in my liver. They began to grow more after I got off of the Nolvadex. Now I am on Arimidex. I've been on the Arimidex since March and so far the tumors have not grown. | F | 49 | 8 months | 10/24/2002 | 4 | Multifocal lobular carcinoma insitu | Hot flashes, water retention, weight gain, vaginal dryness and all over skin dryness | After about 2 years the hot flashes decreased in intensity. I also take trazadone to help with the hot flashes and am now taking Dyazide to help with the water retention | F | 52 | 3 years | 10/14/2002 | 1 | Breast cancer - 2nd reoccurence | I started to take Tamoxifen in April 2000. At that time I was having some perimenopausal symptoms but was having normal menstrual periods. From that point on I had bleeding every January, May and August, somewhat like a period. After each of these bleeding episodes, I had a pelvic ultrasound which showed ovarian cysts and once some thickening of the uterine wall. In May, 2002 I experienced severe cramping (something like early labor pains). These lasted for 2 days. On the 3rd day I contacted the oncologist and shortly afterwards had a clotty hemorrhagic discharge. I ended up in the ER having an ultrasound. It showed a mass in the uterus. The following D and C and hysteroscopy resulted in no abnormal tissue. At that point my doctor took me off Tamoxifen and I am now on Arimidex, which so far has been working well. | There are a lot of risks with Tamoxifen. With a maternal grandmother dying of uterine cancer, I don't think it was right for me. Also I have read research that patients on Tamoxifen with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ have more side effects than other cancers. This was the case with me. | F | 52 | 2 years | 7/12/2002 | 1 | recovering from breast cancer | I started vaginal bleeding again, after having gone through menopause 1 1/2 years earlier. I had adenomyosis. I had chemical depression. I was not a candidate for this drug. I had too many side effects. | F | 54 | 8 months | 6/6/2002 |