New Medicine

I was now officially on Tamoxifen for the next 10 years! That is a long time to be on medicine, I know some people are on medicines for their whole life and such but I am not a fan of medicine so for me, this was a big deal. I had talked to the doctor about the side effects, I mean how great would it be to take a medication and there be no side effects, that has never happened for me, every medicine I have been on has side effects. I would like to say that I try and not read the side effects but good grief if I am putting in my body then I want to know what could potentially happen. This medicine was a little different, I definitely wanted to talk about and read the side effects, I needed to know what could possibly happen while I was taking this, I wanted to be prepared and ready. Just a few “normal” side effects were, headaches, nausea, menopause symptoms, weight gain (Oh Joy!), skin rash, leg swelling this was just to name a few. I was like ok, I can deal with this, not to bad, I mean I was ok with not having a period, that one sounded good to me! For the first few days I had to call out of work because my head hurt so bad, I mean I get migraines and this was so much worse, I cannot describe the feeling going on in my head. Nothing made it better, I was talking Tylenol, Ibuprofen nothing was helping. After about a week it tapered off, I would not say it was gone but it had eased off so I was able to go to work. This pill was no joke, I knew this in the beginning when I talked to the doctor about it but actually taking it and just feeling like crap all the time was brutal. I had to take it at the same time everyday no matter how it was making me feel at the moment, it was just that important. So every morning when my feet hit the floor, that pill was taken, the same thing still holds true to this day! 

When Life Gives You Lemons…Make Lemonade or Margaritas, whichever suits your fancy!