FEMARA

Scottie nausea has a habit of making you feel crummy.  A call to your GP may be a good starting point and maybe ask him/her for a med to calm the nausea.

Good luck!

Love n hugs.  Chrissy 

Scottie if it is the Femara the nausea should pass fairly quickly and not bother you any more but it could be not related to the Femara at all in which case it should still pass fairy quickly.

Love n hugs.  Chrissy 

Scottie if it's been that long already I would definitely contact your GP asap.  Even if you just speak on the phone and report to him/her how long it has been going on.  Time to get some answers from the proffessional.

Love n hugs.  Chrissy 

Hi Scottiee, I  have been away for a few hours & missed all this.   I wondered what happened as I expected to hear from you this weekend.   So sorry about the nausea....I am often plagued by that when travelling.  In fact that is why we are back home now...Went out on the boat to swim & it was too wavy..hence the nausea.     It does seem like the Femara is getting to you and for sure you should be calling your doc.

I drink as much water as I can throughout the day by putting lemon juice in it...have been doing this for years & am trying to drink more since I started the F.    Sat. at the market I bought pure cranberry juice & now I am alternating lemon juice & pure cranberry in  my water.   I have been taking the Femara first thing in the a.m. with lots of water & so far no s.e.   Do not know what else to tell you and it is very hot here too but probably not as bad as TO.   Get better and come for a visit.  i will take you to the market for the cranberry juice which is straight from Bala, the cranberry capital.  Wish I could help.

Greetings,   I was wondering if anyone knows how Femara affects the immune system?  I've been taking it for 16 months, and I've having difficulty with reconstruction on my left side.  My right implant had no problems, but my left side keeps getting infected after 3 attempts at reconstruction.  My most recent attempt was a lat flap, but the TE became infected, too.  I guess I'm looking for ways I can be proactive if I take another shot at reconstruction.

Isabelle2, you are killing me😱 Breakfast used to be my favourite meal of the day. In my old age it's coffee and toast.......herring or sardines would send me straight for the gravol for sure😝 If it's not any better by tomorrow, I will deal with it.

I recently took a 8 week vacation off Femara after being on it for 5 years.  I previously posted how the body aches and constant joint pain finally wore me down in addition to osteopenia issues.  My new oncologist strongly recommended I stay on for 7 years minimum but I really needed to take a break.  My blood report showed elevated cholesterol levels and CRP along with other cardiac and inflammatory markers.  I did notice after about 3 weeks off drug I finally realized one day -- I had no joint pain!  I had almost forgotten after all these years what it felt like to be without constant pain.  However, after reading your posts where some of the oncologists strongly discouraged these AI extended holiday I decided to start my daily dose again.  Tonight I took my Femara pill and will see long it takes for me to feel like crap again.....

jimg I haven't heard that Femara causes immune problems but having BC itself does compromise the immune system.  As Mommie said, talk to your onc about the problem and see if he/she can give you some pointers to improve your immune system.  Good luck and so sorry to hear that you have had so many problems with your recon.

Love n hugs.  Chrissy 

Gail, when I was researching the different HT meds, I did read about this. From what I read, the AI's were better than Tamoxifen. Sorry you are one of the ones that got this SE, and sorry about the job. 

Hi Gail: I think it depends on age also. Myself, I'm 65, so memory loss goes with the territory. It's hard for me to say yet if Femara is making it worse since I have only been on it for 4 1/2 months. Will keep you posted though. So sorry about your job.

I'm 45 and have been in Letrizole generic (Mylan) since January 2012.

I started back at work full time in mid-April.

I think my memory loss started from chemo but letrozole may be contributing as well since it seems to be getting worse.

I have notes for everything all over my cubicle. It's like The movie Groundhog Day -everyday is new.

My biggest problem seems to be remembering words in mud sentence. Makes me feel stupid.

Not so much memory loss but having to search for (what used to be) common words and an increase in forgetfulness.  I don't work outside the home so that hasn't been a huge detriment to me.  Gail, I really think that firing you was awful and I am so sorry. 

Someone much earlier questioned if dizziness was a SE of Femara and I'd like to note that it has been for me.  Both nausea and pretty serious dizziness (especially when standing up) lasted for about 2 months consistently.  I still get very occasional nausea and the dizziness seems to be somewhat better (but not altogether gone) during the last week or so.  Those two things, along with deep fatigue, have been the most consistent SEs, and any others seem to randomly come and go.  I started Lexapro (to help with hot flashes) at the same time as my Femara and attribute some of the severity of the dizziness to that, as well.

So far, however, nothing that is going to keep me from continuing on with Femara or that I can't manage/live with right now.  Fingers crossed that it continues this way.

I have a problem with sleeping as well.  I take the letrozole about 7 PM, normally, and most nights do not sleep well at all.  I tried melatonin, but had nightmares.  So, if you come up with something Ysa, please let me know, too!!!

No we haven't!!!  But, it's been much better than LAST summer was - so I'm really not complaining.  Like you, I don't want to take Ambien and then find myself sleep-driving somewhere .  I don't drive all that much when I'm awake! I'd suggest we meet up at Christmas, but I'm going to be in Hawaii then - getting warm.... 

I haven't tried the time-release melatonin.  I am lucky in that tylenol kind of knocks me out, so if I can't sleep I take a tylenol.  Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.  Usually I don't get too much into the mind racing anymore - just lay there going "I need to get up in three hours!!"