Anyone having lower back pain while on tamoxifen?

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Stage 1 Patient over 8 years

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anonymous

Learning About Breast Cancer

Yes. I am having an MRI next week to rule out disk issues. My Onco however did not think there was a correlation.

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- anonymous
  
  Stage 1 Patient
  
  Good luck ! Let us know results please
  
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anonymous

Stage 3A Patient

Yes!!

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anonymous

Learning About Breast Cancer

I have been on tamoxifen for about 3 years. I do have low back pain, but only for the last year. I never considered tamoxifen the source.

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  Stage 1 Patient
  
  I've been taking Tamoxifen for 6 weeks and the back started hurting 3 weeks ago. Not spine - had xrays, now seeing chiropractor. Hoping it's not the med !
  
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anonymous

Learning About Breast Cancer

Yes! Mine is mid to lower. Glad it wasn't my imagination.

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anonimamente

Stage 2A Paciente

Yessss! but my doctor want too do more tests..

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anonymous

Learning About Breast Cancer

Me too. I have a

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anonymous

Survivor since 2014

I've been taking Tamoxifen for two years and my occasional low back pain has increased substantially, along with pain in both hips, which just developed in the past few months. I try to keep moving through the day because it seems better than when I sit or lie down. Nights are the worst and I'm getting so tired. I mentioned it to my family doctor and he sent me for x-rays, as well as prescribing an anti-inflammatory drug. The medicine provided some relief, but that particular drug is not considered a long-term solution. When I saw my oncologist last week for my annual check-up, she had my X-ray report which showed mild arthritis on the side that is least painful--go figure! She didn't think the pain was a side-effect of taking Tamoxifen and just recommended increasing my activity level--walk 20 minutes a day instead of 15. I've bumped it up to 25 minutes and if that doesn't help, I might ask to be referred to a physiotherapist. I don't take any other medication, just a vitamin with calcium, magnesium and D3, which seems to have reduced my night-time leg cramps (another possible side-effect of Tamoxifen).

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anonymous

Learning About Breast Cancer

.anyone have any suggestions on what to take for this back pain ???has anyone had any success with any pain management..

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anonymous

Learning About Breast Cancer

I have been on Tamoxifen for 21/2 years in April- may of this year I started having back pain ,my primary ordered a mri and it was negative for anything related to the BC ,on June 1st I stopped taking the drug because I was having Knee replacement on June 15th ,the pain went away ,I started taking the drug again on Oct 1 and by the 15th the back pain was back.so I know it's the Tamoxifen causing this , The dilemma ,don't take the drug and risk recurrence ..or take the drug and have this back pain for the next 21/2 years ..my friend had BC and was taking Tamoxifen ,but she stopped after 5 months because she did not like the way it made her feel ,that was about 13 years ago and she has had on recurrence ,that does not mean that that will happened for me !my genomic testing score was 9 for my tumor but that was on the condition that I take this drug...this back pain is terrible. But then so is cancer...my oncologist wants me to keep taking this drug and ordered physical therapy as a solution ,I have not started that yet and don't know if I will because if I am still taking this drug it will most likely be a waste of money..

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