Fatigue effect of Femara

The treatment began 19 months ago with Bondronat and Femara. Since I had hardly any side effects. Half a year later, new metastases were found Femara was discontinued and I got Faslodex. From then on I felt worse and worse. It started with feebleness, fatigue, pain in the joints. Then later numbness in the hands and feet and very severe pain. I have been wearing a pain patch since February of this year and am also taking Temgesic. On some days, I feel like dazed by another star, and can not leave the house alone. My quality of life has suffered as a result. New metastases were found again at the last examination. And I wonder, how can that be. But that’s exactly what Bondronat and Faslodex are supposed to do. Have I been treated with the wrong drug in the past few months? The bad thing is, I’m staying on the track !!

Hello, I am 52 years old and have had cancer in 1996. Have a full program except Chemo. 1996 Right breast cancer. 2002 Relapse of the right breast. During this time the treatment consisted of irradiation, Zoladex and Femara after the Reziviv Femara I got tamoxifen.2006 cancer in the left breast.Busting and again Femara.2009 then metastases in the thoracic vertebra, irradiation Femara, Herceptin and Zometa except fatigue and impulses I had nothing. I beheaded it is the attitude and the positive life with the Illness, how to deal with the side effects. I wish you well

At initial intake dizziness, drowsiness, fatigue, sleep disturbances and the usual hot flashes at night, similar to Arimidex, but not so pronounced. Also, the time until you get used to the drug a little shorter namely about 1 week, then the side effects are lower. In Arimidex, the habituation phase took just under 3 weeks, the side effects were more pronounced. Whether Femara has a value, you can not say yet, but the intake period is too short. Two years ago, I started using tamoxifen, after six months of increasing tumor markers, then Arimidex got better after three months. After another 6 months again massively increasing tumor markers. Now Femara.

Initially, the side effects began with palpitations and sweats that have decreased significantly after a few weeks. On the other hand, the bones, joints and muscles are very fierce. Increases in liver function, fatigue, depressed mood, massive weight gain. Sleep through the night – under Femara – was once again, except for the urge to urinate one again and again out of bed. And under the daily morning stiffness of the joints, the accumulation of water in my hands and legs, I have the impression that Femara is aging at a tempo pace and makes one worry of waking up in the morning. The quality of life drops enormously!

I have reported here as a guest a few weeks ago about side effects of Femara. Initial side effects such as palpitations and massive sweats were massive, but after a short time they have subsided. At that time I did not know that this was just the beginning of further problems. As often read here, massive bone and joint pain, fatigue, and nausea came along, with a beginning of weight gaining and bloating without any of it. I have the experience that deny the side effects. If some become weaker or disappear, others come or reinforce themselves. The quality of life sinks in parts to zero. The fear of cancer and the hope that the side effects are bearable and stop, let me first go on.

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Teething problems, fatigue, bone ache all over, joint damage in the knee and hip joint, severe tingling in the hands, stiffness all over the body, especially on the wrists, increased tear fluid, short-term memory worse, nausea, blurred vision, weight gain, and much more