<> Some people do Not have a severe adverse reaction to Arimidex.

HI Sue,
Happy New Years.
The medical system is imperfect but you must realize it is not an exact
science. Most treatment plans are really an educated guess. For example I
got the flu shot....(which I get every year) but if I get the flu is it
because I was let   down by my doctor and pharmacy I think not.   Now they
are saying the flu shot may not even give much protection  should I be upset
that the medical system is out to get me?

I think you have been through a terrible experience , probably met a few
health  care providers who were less than optimal but I can't believe the
whole system has failed you 100% of the time.As a RN I can tell you that
being a frontline provider it is a hard job with 0% tolerance for errors.
Many times providers get blamed for things way out of their control - it can
be very  frustrating. I wish you the best for the New Year and give your
puppys a hug for me ! Alex

Adverse Reactions To Arimidex

My Information:

Blood:  O positive

Countries of Origin (way back):  English, Scottish, Irish

Recently (since about mid-1850s):  East Texas, West Louisiana

Family History of Disease:  None.  Very healthy.  No allergies to flora
& fauna (not even to poison ivy).  No food allergies.

Skin:  Allergic to bandage tape.

My History:  Severe Adverse Reactions to antidepressants, blood pressure
meds, anti-inflammatory meds, muscle relaxers, pain meds, ... Arimidex,
Femara, Aromasin, etc.

I can take any antibiotics or sulfur drugs OK.

I did OK on chemotherapy & radiation.

LifeSpan:  No matter what my relatives did (such as only eat candy &
coffee, become severely overweight, get badly injured, smoked, etc.),
many (most?) lived to be in their nineties.

Cause of Death:  

Paternal grandfather died of strokes, many strokes over a period of
years, late in life.

Paternal grandmother got very sick in her twenties (malaria?), managed
to survive, but was never healthy or able to work hard again.  She
started having strokes in her seventies or eighties, or so.  She had
four children.  She had the bogus surgeries & treatments of the day,
such as surgically turning over one's uterus, to treat fatigue & fever
from the lingering malaria symptoms/problems, etc.  She survived them
OK, but they didn't help.

Father, died in his seventies of lung cancer, probably from his building
ships during the war (WW2), probably asbestos.  He wasn't sick with it
(just drippy nose), & the docs thought he could live another 15 years or
so (because the cancer was slow-growing), but he wanted to try
chemotherapy, ... which quickly sickened & killed him.  [So I was
terrified going into chemotherapy, but did OK.]

Maternal great-grandfather, died from skin cancer, late in his life.
He'd been a farmer.

Maternal great-grandmother, died in nursing home in Louisiana (probably
from neglect & starvation, I was told), when she was about 100 years
old.  Her nice daughter (Aunt Gladys-Sister) had died in her 50s or 60s
from blood disease (?), or an undiagnosed illness & the resulting
medical treatments for it, ... & that only left my grandmother (Mammy
Susie), who'd rather not help, or who was too cruel & greedy when she
did help (taking her SS check, feeding her turnip greens & cornbread
only, yelling at & threatening her).  So Mama F. was put in a nursing
home, but I wasn't told this until after she died.

Maternal grandfather, was gassed in the war, was in a hospital for a
while (with pneumonia-like symptoms & such, which kept recurring later),
& he was never very healthy again.  I don't think he lived into his
nineties, but he lived to be very old.

Maternal grandmother (Mammy Susie), took every risk imaginable, injured
many times, ill many times, always survived.  Fell/leaped out of moving
vehicle in her twenties, trying to greedily grab candy being thrown to
her children, ... was in coma in hospital for a while, ... finally woke
up & got sent home.  Got blood poisoning, & survived.  Etc.  Had four
children.  Probably because of vehicle accident, she started having
strokes in her twenties, had many strokes over the years, ... stayed up
& active (until almost ninety?), when the last stroke incapacitated her
& put her in nursing home.

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It will be interesting to see what tests the doctors & PHARMA companies
order, or if they order any, to see why Arimidex was so bad for me.

Since I stopped taking estrogen-blockers, the intense itching & burning,
esp. in my upper back & shoulders, is also gone.

Susan, Su_Texas  my opinions