Comments on: Taking Tamoxifen

By: Erika

Erika — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:30:30 +0000

Thanks so much for your post! Just complete double with expanders and Tamoxifen is next. So, uplifting to hear positive experience with Tamoxifen. And you are so right, not many people are posting about having “no side effects.” Again, you have just made my day!! Thank you so much for sharing! Big hugs to you!

By: Josie Kelsh

Josie Kelsh — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:10:35 +0000

In reply to Melissa. I'm glad I could help. Good luck with Tamoxifen.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 04:54:13 +0000

Thank you. Just started Tamoxifin, surgery next month, August 2024. Articles like this sure help reduce stress.

By: Josie Kelsh

Josie Kelsh — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:37:18 +0000

In reply to Pamela.

Hi Pamela
Even a double mastectomy still leaves some breast tissue no matter how careful the doctor is trying to get rid of it all, so there is always a risk of the cancer coming back in those tiny areas. A DMX is never a guarantee of no recurrence. It does drop the percentage of risk though. Taking Tamoxifen drops that percentage again – usually by about 50%. Taking Tamoxifen is not reliant on whether or not you have had a DMX, it’s a completely different way of stopping the cancer returning.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:44:04 +0000

Hello Josie,
I was also prescribed tamoxifen but each dosage made me really sick, almost like a terrible hangover the next day. I’m curious as to why you took it if you had a mastectomy. If it targets breast cancer cells, why did you need it? I’m considering a prophylactic mastectomy because I am so against taking the medication, and I can’t keep up the every-6-month screening forever.

By: Josie Kelsh

Josie Kelsh — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:21:45 +0000

In reply to Kirsty. Hi Kristy, so glad to hear the hot flashes have settled. They are much more bearable when we believe in their effects. Good luck :-)

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:17:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing your journey. I have been on tamoxifen for a year now and the hot flashes have settled, initially they were like clock work 3 minutes after caffeine or a sugar hit and then 2-3 times overnight. I cut down the sweets and changed to peppermint tea at work and slept in a T shirt and cardigan for quick relief. My oncologist told me tamoxifen is doing more for my hormone positive BC reoccurrence than the chemo and radio did. I also take abemaciclib for two years now that has some side effects!

By: Josie Kelsh

Josie Kelsh — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:52:02 +0000

In reply to Judy. Thanks for sharing your story Judy. It certainly is a gruelling thing to go through. Glad to hear you are recovering and getting on with life now. Take care.

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:30:04 +0000

I have enjoyed following your journey and am now down the track 9 months in. I have had a few side effects namely diarrhea after my first chemo for 18 days I had taken to my bed after spending 10 days in hospital and losing 10kilos I stopped my chemo on 20th May 22 mainly I’d just had enough and wanted a break I also had my breast and 16 lymph nodes taken I am now in recovery mode and enjoying life again I had cancer in my right breast but it is not curable I’m on medication for the rest of my life but will use this second chance to put my life back together after 6 months of gruelling chemo

By: Josie Kelsh

Josie Kelsh — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:03:33 +0000

In reply to Narelle. Thank you for your kind words Narelle. Being able to help others has made this all so much easier for more. Good luck :-)