My appointment with the Oncologist this morning was to talk about the drug I'm to take every day for 5 years....gulp!
The drug is Arimidex or Anastrozole and it has a list of possible side effects as long as my arm, however that doesn't mean I'll get all of them, some of them, or any of them. I have 1 month's supply and then I see the Oncologist again to see how I'm going, if I can't tolerate the side effects then there's another one to try. The registrar said most people get menopause symptoms like hot flushes, and I'll have to have bone scans to check my bone mass. If I have an issue with hot flushes then they can give me an antidepressant which apparently helps with that.
I then went to the gym to start exercising, I've been told to go gentle at first so just went in to do 10 mins on a bike and 10 on the treadmill. Made a HUGE mistake of weighing myself halfway through, extremely depressing... I started to have a moment when I was on the treadmill, heading to pity city with every step, thinking about how long it's going to take to get this weight off and how long 5 years is taking a pill every day and I actually started to cry before I pulled myself together. Really quite pathetic as I take vitamins every day! I thought about going back to the Cancer Centre and saying to the registrar "you might as well hand over those bloody anti-depressants now!"
I think I'm out of pity city for now and my aim is to get to Funky Town, without the aid of yet another drug.
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