Uterine cancer - what were your symptoms?

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  • Lisey
    Lisey Member Posts: 1,053
    edited August 2018

    mawaller… November for me...   Looks like we have a similar plan.  I'm 8 years younger than you I think...  we should compare notes.

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  • mawaller67
    mawaller67 Member Posts: 13
    edited August 2018

    thanks vampeyes

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  • mawaller67
    mawaller67 Member Posts: 13
    edited August 2018

    Lisey,

    Sounds good to me!! Since all the biopsies were negative, my mo and gyn said I could start back up on the Tamox. I take it for 2 days and start bleeding again. Sigh...and of course called both doctors and now I'm back off of it until after hyst. Oh it's always something! :0)

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  • exercise_guru
    exercise_guru Member Posts: 716
    edited August 2018

    I have read this thread with interest were any of you offered Lupron and an AI?

    I was not offered that option as my family had a history of ovarian cancer. Surgical menopause is extreme ans a big shock , I would have liked to have tried Lupron for a year first. As it is I ended up back on tamoxifen because the AI caused some other problems but I had a full hysterectomy and oophrectomy so it seems to be ok. Eventually I wull move back to femara.

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  • mawaller67
    mawaller67 Member Posts: 13
    edited August 2018

    Exercise

    I was also not given an option as I was adopted therefore no medical history. I understand that Tamox is the best around...? How did your hyst and ooph go?

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  • Lisey
    Lisey Member Posts: 1,053
    edited August 2018

    MA, from what I read, ovary suppression and AIs are actually more effective for younger women who needed chemo.   Also Tamoxifen stops working in a percentage of women - they don't know who until it happens, so my oncologist said the game plan was always to switch to an AI after about 2 -3 years.  Tamoxifen has been easy for me, so I'm nervous about switching, but I also know that AIs are more effective overall in controlling estrogen + BC, so I'm willing to jump.  They also say taking a 'tamoxifen break' of over a year restarts the working of tamoxifen for a few more years, so there's that.  If you take Tamoxifen the entire time, there is a chance it could fail you.  AIs not so much. 

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  • mawaller67
    mawaller67 Member Posts: 13
    edited September 2018

    Lisey,

    I'm pretty new to this bc game-what are AL's?

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited September 2018

    Aromatase Inhibitors are prescribed for estrogen responsive breast cancer. It is an i not an L!!! My daughter was reading a newspaper article where the statement "we are all Iowans was made, and she kept asking what are Lowans???? bad fonts - without serifs!!!

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  • mawaller67
    mawaller67 Member Posts: 13
    edited September 2018

    Thank You Jelson!!

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