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