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Life after oral chemo

ohlaura
ohlaura CSN Member Posts: 4
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
I've been on oral chemo for 5 years, having post immune problems, like thrush, sore muscles. I took aromasin, arimidex, and tamoxifen. I've been off three months, does that stuff ever leave you the way you were before chemo?
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  • Kristin N
    Kristin N CSN Member Posts: 1,968 Member
    #2
    I haven't been on chemo,so,
    I haven't been on chemo,so, I can't really answer your question. But, I will be going on tamoxifen for five years after my radiation treatments. But, I was not aware that tamoxifen is an oral chemo. Is it? How are you doing by the way?
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  • Eil4186
    Eil4186 CSN Member Posts: 949
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    Kristin N said:

    I haven't been on chemo,so,
    I haven't been on chemo,so, I can't really answer your question. But, I will be going on tamoxifen for five years after my radiation treatments. But, I was not aware that tamoxifen is an oral chemo. Is it? How are you doing by the way?

    I have never heard tamoxifen
    I have never heard tamoxifen and those others called chemo. Usually they are referred to as hormonal treatment or hormonal manipulation.
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  • zahalene
    zahalene CSN Member Posts: 670
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    Eil4186 said:

    I have never heard tamoxifen
    I have never heard tamoxifen and those others called chemo. Usually they are referred to as hormonal treatment or hormonal manipulation.

    I am a....
    60 year old woman.
    I FEEL like a 60 year old woman.
    I HAVE FELT like a 60 year old woman since I was 38 when the chemo, rads, and tamoxifen (for 7 yrs) all began.
    But the other side of the coin is that I am still HERE to feel like 60.
    I guess sometimes we just have to take the bad with the good.
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