Tamoxifen and fat

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sueshane
sueshane Member Posts: 120
edited June 2014 in Hormonal Therapy - Before, During, and After

Help!  I have developed fat deposits and cellulite on my thighs, calf, buttocks, stomach and arms.  I am so depressed.  I look like I am obese even though I am only 20-25 pounds over my ideal weight.  Does anyone else have this problem.  I swear it is from tamoxifen.  I would love your thoughts....I am ready to throw in the towel and stop taking the medication.....

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  • BCsurvivor2012
    BCsurvivor2012 Member Posts: 5
    edited May 2014

    I've gained about 35lbs and I have no energy to exercise but I won't stop taking it either. I just try to look at it like this, I'd rather be over weight then dead. 

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  • Jennie93
    Jennie93 Member Posts: 1,018
    edited May 2014

    I am ashamed to admit that I am not all that sure I would rather be fat than dead.  

    From reading here for about a year, I'd say the majority struggle with weight while on tamoxifen.  My story is typical.  Never had a weight problem in my life, eat healthy, have an active lifestyle, just something I never worried about.  Weight stayed exactly the same all through chemo & rads.  Started tamox, nothing else different, scale starts creeping up.  25 lbs so far!  Eating less and less, exercising more and more, nothing helps, just keep getting fatter and fatter.  And it's in places it never ever was before (i.e. belly).  So depressing!! 

    There are other threads about it, here is one:

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/78/topic/...

    But no one really seems to have any answers.  At least we can all sympathize with each other.  

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  • sueshane
    sueshane Member Posts: 120
    edited May 2014

    Thank you BCsurvivor2 and Jennie 93 for posting.  I got a chuckle over Jennie's shameful comment- I can totally relate.  It's not bad enough that we (many of us) opted to remove our breasts, but now we can't even control our own weight.  I am just hopeful that after five years (not 10) when I go off of the tamoxifen,  I will finally get my figure back and will be able to feel normal again.  I feel the effects from tamoxifen have been worse than my bilateral mastectomy.

    In saying all of the above,  things could be worse and I am grateful for my health.  I recognize others have had a more difficult road with this BC diagnosis and my prayers goes out to them.  

     


     

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