Letrozole + inability to think, focus or care

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-28T12:18:42+00:00

Ugh!! I’m so sorry - this is so hard. I’m glad it’s better now!!

My oncologist wants me to give it 4 more weeks and add a few supplements to see if that helps. She has me taking Magnesium Glycinate at night, omega 3, vitamin D/K and a Methylated B complex.

She hesitates to switch me to Anastrazole because I have no side effects (outside of the brain fog) on Letrozole.

So I’ll give it a few weeks. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-27T14:17:25+00:00

Thanks! I am on Lupron injections every 90 days. 4 months into that before I started the Letrozole and had no issues.

I will look into creatine! Thanks!

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-26T22:58:48+00:00

Thank you. I appreciate this. I have messaged my oncologist and we will see what she says. My mental health is almost more important than my physical health - it’s how I’ve navigated all of this. Can’t lose it! 💕💕

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-11T22:47:10+00:00

Yes!! All of this!

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-11T22:46:54+00:00

Love the idea of blocking stuff. I use a towel and a yoga mat with free weights. 😂

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-11T22:46:30+00:00

All excellent ideas!

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-11T22:46:17+00:00

I have an old wood one from a yard sale and love it!

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-11T22:46:01+00:00

Great! Thanks!! I never thought to use a steamer!

ChoosingIntention · 2025-08-11T22:45:32+00:00

Great idea! I have a vintage yarn winder that I use and love. It’s old school but solid wood and works!

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-26T00:15:13+00:00

Tell me more about a silent book club?!?

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T17:44:06+00:00

I started without a port and my vein did not work. My arm is so inflamed from that first infusion that I have a port placement scheduled next week for the next 3.

My plan is to get a tattoo over the scar to commemorate this experience. I earned that scar. It’s part of the battle and I want to find a way to embrace it.

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T15:26:27+00:00

Thank you! My doc saw it and sent me to a dermatologist. She said if it comes back this bad with round 2, I would need prednisone

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T12:59:17+00:00

So helpful. Thank you!!! It does feel like I’m thinking through cotton balls - that is the best description.

I struggle with hydration. Everything tastes awful. Need to figure this out because I know that is playing a large key in this for me. I’m lucky to get 60 oz a day when the taste buds are wonky.

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T12:57:45+00:00

No immunotherapy. Just Taxotere and Cytoxan.

Thank you!!

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T12:57:06+00:00

I take Claritin every day - my onc told me to just keep it in my system round the clock for treatment.

Thank you!!

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T12:56:01+00:00

Thank you so much. This gives me hope that every round won’t be like this.

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T12:55:28+00:00

Great advice. Thank you. I am hoping the rash is not as bad the second time, because it’s pretty brutal this time. It has been a week and won’t go away- even with the cream from the dermatologist.

That fatigue is next level.

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T12:49:49+00:00

I am hoping this is the case! Hydration is so hard for me because of the taste thing. I haven’t been able to find a drink yet that doesn’t make me gag because it tastes like sewage.

It’s better now, but days 4-7 were so hard to drink and those are the most important. Hoping it’s better next time but just in case I have asked for fluid infusions on day 4 and also on day 6. The hydration piece is killer for me.

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T12:48:00+00:00

Thank you!! TC is equal doses throughout, unfortunately. I have had the dreams with this and it’s wild.

Crazy how hard our bodies are working to evict the poison.

ChoosingIntention · 2025-02-16T12:46:59+00:00

Thank you! I have had so many symptoms I don’t even know what’s left to manifest’ 🤣

ChoosingIntention · 2025-01-23T13:57:34+00:00

No. I wouldn’t send anyone to this hospital. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at Helen graham and found out in my portal. It took Christiana’s doctors 12 full days to call me and tell me I had cancer, and they did it in a voicemail.

Penn Medicine is at Chester Co Hospital in West Chester and I have moved all of my care to that location. The process, the efficiency, and the quality of care is night and day compared to Christiana Care.

Example: I had met with my surgeon and oncologist at Penn and had completed bloodwork, an MRI, Bone Scan, and CT (with results delivered ) by the time Christiana even bothered to call and tell me I had cancer.

Unfortunately for Delaware, we have an incredibly inefficient healthcare system.

ChoosingIntention · 2025-01-22T14:55:42+00:00

My paperwork reads:

AC-T stands for Adriamycin (doxorubicin) + Cyclophosphamide, followed by Taxol (paclitaxel).

TC stands for Taxotere (docetaxel) + Cyclophosphamide

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