Bottle 'o Tamoxifen

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  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Member Posts: 2,047
    edited July 2011

    Did someone say cowboys?????????  hmmmm you ladies think you know me so well huh??... haha guess you really do :)

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  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Member Posts: 2,047
    edited July 2011

    oh started back on Tamoxifen tonight only doing 10mg for a week then bumping up!

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    Tink - So glad to have you back and yes, some of us really do know you.  Sweet innocent Tink - NOT!!  LOL

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  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Member Posts: 2,047
    edited July 2011

    awww come on now!!!!!! hehe

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011
    Doesn't do you any good to whine - you know if we didn't love you we would not pick on you.  And it has been a long time.  Innocent
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  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Member Posts: 2,047
    edited July 2011

    lol it has !... no whining!!!!???  too bad becaue im really good at it too haha!!!

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  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Member Posts: 1,946
    edited July 2011

    well with Tink's ability to fly..she can 'gitcha' at any time!

    Sherry...yeah... I undersand it about the drugs...they can be tampered with etc...but these are cancer meds someone could use!!> such a shame...and a waste really because someone could use them....I remember working at a grop home for youth and we tossed pills every month (brought them to the pharmacist)....somehow I did not feel the same way..they were antibiotics mostly ...this is just closer to my heart and could help keep a woman alive....burns me is all

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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited November 2013


    vhshea I think you need to take those birth control pills and throw them in the bonfire at Bonfire of the Goddesses

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    vhshea - I will gladly take them and throw them in the bonfire for you.  Those little buggers are part of the reason I got BC in the first place.  

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  • Just_V
    Just_V Member Posts: 841
    edited July 2011

    jo - might be for me, too.. i had been on birth control for like 27 years... egads...  and out of three sisters and eight sister in laws, i am the only one with BC.... hm.

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    vhshea - I do think the birth control pills got the ball rolling and then Prempro was the icing on the cake - egads!  There is no family history of BC.

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    Morning all!  Its gonna be another hot one out there today.  Im so ready, NOT!  I tell you what the dang hot then cold flashes are driving me to the brink of madness.  At any given moment Im so flippen hot that Im sweat buckets of sweat from the hot flashes.  Then Im freezing cold.  I even had to put on a jacket yesterday at work.  I can handle the hotflashes, but the cold this chic doesnt care for.  I am so ready for these SE to pass.

    Monday is the big day for my big (well small in my case, lol) exchange.  I will finally get these rocks off my chest.  I cant wait.  Plus my clothes will finally fit me again.  I wont feel like Dolly Partons twin sissy, lol.  I know that Im not that big, but when you go from being a 32A to the size I am now, WOW!  Hubby loves the size, go figure.  I woulda nevr thought that.  We have been together for 22 years and up until last year I was a small breasted gal. Men, go figure!

    Tink and ECG I hope all is going well.  Take care and I hope the pillows will be soft this weekend.

    vhshea I'll have to pass on the offer, lol.  I have my tubes tied years ago, so I get to have lots of fun and no worries.  

    I know this is a BC wesite but Im gonna post anyway because I can.  I have 2 sissys and I love them so and dont want anything to happen to them.  Well my younger sissy has lost both her breasts to cancer 10 years ago and shes  going strong.  My older sissy has the good breast so she good there.  Well she found out 2 months ago that she had 3 spots on her thyrod and they did a biopsy Tuesday on them.  She finally got the results and it was good news.  No Cancer, Yahoo!  Im so happy that I can do cart wheels.  I love you sissy and am so glad you are safe!

    Sherry, Bring on the boys.  Im so ready for some eye candy.   

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  • Just_V
    Just_V Member Posts: 841
    edited July 2011

    paula - yea for your sister!!!!! great news....  surre about those birth control pills... the offer is still open...    Let use know how the exchange goes.

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  • JustmeAlicia
    JustmeAlicia Member Posts: 1,529
    edited July 2011

    Paula ~ wonderful news about your sister ! woo HOO.  Wishing you the best of luck with your exchange you will feel so much better getting those darn expanders out.  I will be thinking of you Monday.

    see you all later for the pillow fight !

    :)

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    TGIF!!! Tammibabes 

    Paula - Let us know how your exchange goes.

    Pillow fight later?  Cool!  I will be there armed with my pillow.

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  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Member Posts: 2,047
    edited July 2011

    Paula will be with you Monday! great news about your sisters thank you for sharing with us!!!

    Jo bring it on! :)

    Hugs Tammy ladies

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    Tink - Bring it on?  You got it sister.

                                 

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  • JustmeAlicia
    JustmeAlicia Member Posts: 1,529
    edited July 2011

    Sexy Firefighter Pictures

    I'll bring HIM ~ it is a hot one today.  Never know when we might need a fire put out !!!

    :)
    Keep cool girls...

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  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Member Posts: 2,047
    edited July 2011

    Jo love it!!!!!!!!

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  • Just_V
    Just_V Member Posts: 841
    edited July 2011

    So someone said that if you experience no side effects from Tamoxifen, that you are not absorbing it... anyone else hear that ?

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    vhshea - Not true.  Everyone handles medications differently - I think if you have no SEs you are quite lucky.

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  • NoMoreHL
    NoMoreHL Member Posts: 282
    edited July 2011
    vhshea: 2 hours ago I started typing the exact same question, and then I decided not to post. Thanks for asking the question for me. Great minds . . . . .
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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited November 2013


    Paula congrats on your sister and good luck with your exchange.

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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited November 2013





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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011
    Sherry - My oh my!  He will do nicely - thank you very much.  Got my little heart just a racing.
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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited November 2013



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  • murphmort
    murphmort Member Posts: 157
    edited July 2011

    Its been a while since I've posted, but I have a question for those who are on Tamoxifen.  Has anyone had an issue with their retinas while on Tamoxifen?  I just had my eye doctor checkup, first one in 3 years which is when I started on Tamoxifen.  The term is called tamoxifen retinopathy and is rare for those on 20 mg/day, but can occur.

    I have a checkup with my med onc on 8/1.  My eye doctor says to come annually unless I have a change in my vision.  

    Just curious how common this is ??? 

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    OOOOO now your talking Sherry!

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  • murphmort
    murphmort Member Posts: 157
    edited July 2011

    Ask your oncologist about a CYP2D6 test - it can show how your body processes the drug.  Since I have been on the mediciation in June 2008, I did experience hot flashes within a week, and luck me, still get my period.  The only time I do not have hot flashes is when I am getting my period.  My doctor said she wouldn't test me, because the maximum she would put me on is 20 mg/day. 

    Hope this helps.Smile

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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited July 2011

    Murphmort I have not heard of that but I do wear glasses and my MO said for me to see my eye dr every 6 months.  I decided to skip this first one and just go with my yearly because I am just tired of appts.  Will decide after that if I will do every 6 months.  sounds kinda overkill.  The last time I went for an eye exam I told the Dr I would be on tamox and he felt yearly was good.

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