Yes. In my previous post I talked about how I waited until the very day I was due to start taking Tamoxifen before deciding to seriously consider the side effects.
Seems that for maximum effectiveness, you need to start taking it the day after your radiation ends, which didn’t leave me much time to weigh up all the evidence. So yes, I decided to take it and spend the next couple of weeks doing a bit of research. My decision was based on the following information…
1. I will be taking Tamoxifen for a minimum of 5 years and so a couple of weeks won’t matter that much.
2. The evidence which I’ve been presented with so far indicates that taking Tamoxifen reduces my chance of dying from my breast cancer within the next 10 years to only 2%. Whilst the odds of dying from having adverse reaction to a prescription drug are 0.03333% (San Diego Union, 5/10/07).
The pernicky will correctly point out that this is likely to refer to an acute condition, whilst uterine cancer is more of a slow burn. But I have to start somewhere.
So what now?
Well I need to find out how Tamoxifen works and the impact of oestrogen not only on me, but the rest of my family.
To your health
Regards,
Sian
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