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Taking pills every day is a new experience for me. I’m not moaning you understand, it’s just that I’ve never had that sort of medical routine imposed before.
In case you don’t know, Tamoxifen is the drug they give you (they call it chemotherapy) buy amoxil online after you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer which is linked to oestrogen. You take this to block the oestrogen and the fun side effect is plunging into the menopause the week after you start taking it, instead of the usual slide down the hormonal slope into the menopause.
Putting that aside, Tamoxifen must be taken every day. I’m one of those people who’s never sure they’ve turned the iron off unless they’ve checked a few times and so I could never be certain I’d done the damn thing. Then I found this daily pill popper gadget from Kleeneze. Now I can pop my whole months supply into my pill wallet, each pill in it’s little compartment for each day. This way I can count down the month until I need to put in my repeat prescription to get the next lot – and off we go again.
I’ve managed to avoid watches and calenders (except for real emergencies like going to Florida) for several years now, so it’s rather disturbing to now have this horological pill popper.
But there’s another side to this as well, which is far more upsetting. I should be grateful in many respects because it’s given me an insight into how I have been feeling underneath it all. This is rather a biggie to admit to…
I’ve started looking forward to when my prescription has to be dropped off at the doctors and then collected from the pharmacy. Why? Because someone asks me how I’m feeling and takes a bit of care over me. It’s not that my family don’t care, they do, but I don’t let them in to look after me and so this role sadly falls to the doctors receptionist and the lady who ladles out my pills.
Crikey. I’m not indestructible and so why should I carry on as though I am? How tough must that be for Mark (husband). It may to time to speak up when I’m tired, instead of working even harder. Who I am trying to kid. Both of us I think.
To you and yours
Sian
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dear sian
i came across your blog ( which i find witty and insightful ) as i was looking for information about tamoxifen.
i am 46 live in italy have done for the past 20 years
i have three children 3 ,7 and 10
i was diagnosed in april with idc because my tumour is er and pr positive my treatment plan is radiotherapy ( which i still have to do ) and ovarian ablation 8 a monthly injection ) plus tamoxifen
sian , could you tell me what tipped the scales for you ? what finally made you decide to take it ?
i have spent days agonising over a decision
something in my gut tells me not to take it and just the fact that before the doctor gives you a prescription you have to sign a consent form with a witness present really freaks me out !
so my box of tamoxofen is sitting on the kitchen counter near the teabags (which is putting me off having a cuppa) waiting for me to once again take control of my life.
all the very best to you
maiax
Hi and I hope you’re feeling well and upbeat. Firstly, thanks so much for your kind comments and please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you. What tipped the scales for me? Facts and figures. Simply that. The consultant had them and the doubters and sceptics who said I shouldn’t take it didn’t, even the professional ones. In the UK you don’t need a consent form, Tamoxifen is just part of the normal prescription process – which means it’s not that onerous. Secondly, my consultant had years of facts and was able to give me a % survival rate with tamoxifen and without it. Now I realise there’s lies, damned lies and statistics – but at least she had something. The what we shall call ‘health professionals’ had lots of doom and gloom about the side effects but no suitable alternatives and nothing which I felt counteracted the doctors information – even if that was taken with a massive dose of salt. So yes – I chose to take it and I’ll carry on taking it despite some of the strange but liveable with side effects. More on that later. That was my choice and I hope it helps you with yours. My love and best wishes to you. xx
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