User Reviews for Arimidex oral

I have been taking Arimidex for 9 months. I thought I was having no side effects, but reading the other posts I am wondering if this is what is causing my leg/joint pain and weakness. I am 48, have trouble getting up out of a chair or up from a squatting position, like another post says I feel like an 80-year-old woman. In the morning my feet hurt and I am very stiff and sore. Sometimes my entire body aches. Also trouble sleeping for the first time ever. I am going to talk to my oncologist!

After one year I fell and broke 3 bones, two in my ankle and one in my wrist. Two years later I have broken my ankle again and have now discontinued arimidex. I had osteopenia before I began and have had significant bone loss since.

I didn't sleep for a year, average 2 hrs a night. My sympathic nervous system never shut off. I am finally sleeping again, but I have body pain from the waist down. Muscle and joint aches bad in the legs with my feet getting numb. The doctor's don't know what to do about side effects and the drugs they give you just have other side effects. So, I am avoiding anything except asprin. Some days I am in tears the pain is so bad. I have been on arimidex for 2 years. I am not sure how much longer I can stay on it. I have no signs of a reoccurance and feel confident I won't. I'm not sure it's armindex, who knows.Read More Read Less

1 year after 2 years of Tamoxifen. Rare achiness relieved by drinking 2 glasses of water. No side effects! Be active, eat right - most of the time! and maintain a healthy weight. and drink LOTS of water!

My experience with Arimidex has been a very painful experience. I have constant burning, numbness and tingling in my feet. I just been diagnosed with a mass on the outside of my uterus. I had an ultra sound today, but won't know for several days of the outcome. I feel it is from taking Arimidex.

After about two months of taking Arimidex, I started experiencing severe joint pain and weakness in my hands and arms and three of my fingertips in my right hand have gone numb. I have been off of the Arimidex for three months and most of the symptoms have gone away, except for the numbness in my fingers. I ended up having a carpel tunnel decompression surgery last week. My hand surgeon told me that he sees a lot of people that have had similar hand and joint problems from taking Arimidex. I'm so glad I stopped!Read More Read Less

First side effect,knee joint pain and weakness. Oncologist repeatedly insisted it was not related to Arimidex, so I went through knee injections (Synvisc)and lengthy Physical Therapy.Also had severe low back pain. Therapy in water finally helped ease both. When thumb joints got very painful I began getting cortisone injections. I stopped Arimidex at 3 1/2 yrs. Wish I had stopped sooner! I have just had my second thumb joint replacement this year. Both my breast surgeon and my hand surgeon believe that Arimidex may well have been responsible for my joint disintegration. What good is a "promise" that a drug will keep you safe from the reoccurance of cancer, if your quality of life is taken away?Read More Read Less

Shortly after starting arimidex I started noticing discomfort in my joints. Has anyone else hadthis experience. I'm told that this is just one of the side effects. Is this common for my age?

Since starting this medication I have experienced pain in every part of my body.Seems to be moving around. First, very bad lower back pain then changed to upper arms and shoulders. Have difficulty putting on a sweater or coat. Hot flashes have been ok recently -only 1 or 2 a day. Since September have been upping my dose of fish oil capsules (2 a day) and also using flaxseed oil on my oatmeal. This seems to have helped the pain somewhat. Also take Vitamin B6. As others have said have gained weight, have fatigue and don't always sleep too well. My cholesterol level also jumped 20 points in 2 months after taking Arimidex. I eat lots of fruits and vegetables so this should not happen. I don't want to take statins for this condition because it has caused muscle pain in the past and with all the aches and pains I have with Arimidex don't need more. Read More Read Less

I have been taking Arimidex for just over 4 years. I show no signs of recurrence. I had severe arthritis-like pains at the start of my treatment, and suffered two fractures from falls which shouldn't have caused fractures. My pain went away when I started taking Actonel for osetopenia, and I haven't fractured anything since then.

I've been on this med for 2 months and it feels like years. The side effects are very unpleasant. I've had many but most disappear in a short period of time. Those that I'm still having cotton mouth, weight gain, water retention and limbs swelling, joint & shin pain, nasty yeast infection and sore mouth (inside upper lip feels scalded), difficulty sleeping. I'm taking Trazodone as sleep aid/anti-depressant.

I have only been on this for about 2 months. Before that it was Tamoxifen. I have severe hot flashes. 15 to 20 daily even on the Effexor. I have muscle and joint pain in the morning. Brest tenderness,weight gain, sleeplessness. I am on Ambien for that, but still wake up 2-4 times a night with hot flashes.

I have noticed hair thinning and am not sure if the drug is the cause.

I have been on the drug for 2 years. I experience; memory loss, weight gain, sore joints, hot flashes (2-4 daily) and sleeplessness. I take effexor to counteract the hot flashes. Without effexor, I would have 10-15 hot flashes daily. Effexor also works as an anti depressent. It reduces hot flashes and your happier. Not a bad trade off. It works. . . I am thankful. I am a second generation brest cancer survivor. And plan to stay that way.

I have been on this drug for almost 2 years and have not had any problems except for some swelling in my legs.

You do it because you are told it is good for you. All your joints ache, can't sleep, diarrhea, constipation, no memory, hot flashes, weight gain and not able to lose it. Can't get an insurance policy because you have to still take a medication as treatment, even though the medicine is supposedly preventing a recurrance. I quit and feel so much better. I'm living for quality not quantity now.

I have been on Arimidex for three years now and I am very grateful the cancer has not recurred. I want to thank everyone for their comments. I have gained a lot of weight and when I asked my oncologist if Arimidex caused weight gain,he said "Not really" From the comments it seems I am not the only one. My last blood tests showed my glucose was above normal and my cholesterol too which I think is from the weight gain. Also I have osteopenia which is a side effect of Arimidex. Now I am on Boniva for that. I am grateful for the drug but will be happy to finish the 5 year treatment and I hope I am not ruining my health in other areas.Read More Read Less

I HAVE BEEN ON ARIMADEX FOR 3 YEARS.. IT HAS WORKED FOR ME.. THANKS!!!! DEBBIE CHISOLM

as a woman w/ "MMMMT"( carcinosarcoma),(uterine cancer),i don't recommend any hormonal therapy,or hornone therapy- like drugs.i believe after 5 yrs.of tamoxifen & 4 yrs.of Evista(hormone therapy)it has sentenced to me a cancer that only 2-5% of all women get,with a very low expectancy.

I know I can deal with all the sideffects, as long I am cancer free. I am waiting for the day I am able to loose the 20pounds I have gain, and also regaing my libido. I sounds like I am not the only one. We just have to pray the the cancer does not return. No garentees in this world