Feet!!!

Kate,

I've been on tamoxifen for about a year and I have the same issues with my feet. My right foot is my worst but both of them are quite stiff and painful first thing in the morning. Now before I jump out of bed I first move my feet around and flex the joints/ankles. It helps a bit, I also find that after a few minutes of being up on my feet the pain/stiffness does go away. Did you ask you onc. about this? I asked mine but he is not very forthcoming about much at all. Would love to find a new one...

Hugs,

LuAnn, I have a friend who was in her thirties when she found out she had RA. She could barely walk her feet hurt so badly. Now she's nearing 60 and the poor gal has a terrible time with all her joints. However, I believe they have come out with better meds than they had when she was dxd.
Shirley

I'm on Tamoxifen and
had that severely on my feet last year,
started on my feet and then came up my legs,
and around this time by then I went for
some couple of texts to see what was going on.
Nothing out of what could be expected, arthritis,
the thing got in a way that I could not stand up
in the morning.
The odd thing was that,
I been on sports long years back
and along the time was always very active
so in any point of my life this shown before,
I had detailed XR's that shown that suddenly
I have flat feet, yep, apparently chemo
messed with the joins in there to this point.

Those exercises mentioned by lam,
in the morning and now and then do help a lot,
plus as soon as I started some supplements
and things like magnesium
and vitamin D's it was a HUGE change.
A good shoe with a very good feet support
made a difference too.
Just for you to get the idea of how one can
recover back, last year around this month
I was holding myself on the walls some parts of the day
to manage to do things like
going to the kitchen, or get up from my desk,
I'm 39 and at certain parts of the day
I was feeling as if 93...
this year around January
I went back to my favorite thing mountain hiking,
and by now one year latter, I already lost the count
of how many miles I hiked so far
with not much problems then
what can be the normal, tired in the end.
I'm not saying that it is gone completely, there's days,
and after the kick we had with chemo,
plus then being on Tamox or AI's or of the kind,
guess it's asking too much
for things to get back being 100%,
but it can get FAR BETTER.

Hope that improves soon.

LuAnn, if you don't mind what meds are you on for RA. My friend had to stop Plaquinel (sp) after years of use due to eye problems. Her eyes had to be checked often when on that med. One of the drugs she's on now is a steroid and it has put weight on her (as we all know it can). I have to admire her. She keeps on going. However, she is on disability now.
Shirley

Oh, she's on Enbrel (sp).

She is on Methotrexate. I forgot that one.

When she first started being treated for this she was getting gold shots. Then somewhere along the line treatment changed. She goes to Duke. That's where she finally got her dx after seeing a nut job here.
Shirley

I forgot to say that she used to be on Methotrexate years ago. After she was taken off of Plaquinell they put her back on Methotrexate.