Think on it

[smokingboot]

Got up and suddenly felt everything spin around, faint, nausea etc. All morning. Always had low blood pressure, but this is insistent and often. Is it the blasted Letrozole?

Letrozole's reputation is for sending blood pressure up so if low blood pressure is an issue, this drug might actually help. I had so much difficulty with it in the beginning they were up for experimenting with other hormone suppressants, but as the drugs are all in the same chemical family it seems unlikely that matters would improve. Tamoxifan has its own spicy rep.

Still, these symptoms are weird AF, am very tempted not to take this stuff at all. Supposed to keep this up for 3 years, then if necessary 5, then up to 10. But it's not great, feeling so muggy headed and exhausted all the time. Am I up for a decade of this? What would happen if I stopped?

Docs go Noooooo! Don't do it! But eh, this feels so very uncomfortable.

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

I know it's really annoying when people play pin-the-symptom-on-the-condition long distance, but I used to be a nurse, so blah, blah, blah—could you possibly be dehydrated? 😀

[smokingboot]

It doesn't annoy me at all! I'm grateful for your thoughts. Dehydration seems unlikely as I drink loads in the morning, but I'll keep an eye on that, just in case coffee and tea isn't enough.

[mallorys_camera]

My dear, coffee and tea are diuretics. If coffee & tea are most of what you drink, you will pee out more fluid than you take in, and inevitably end up dehydrated.

You must force yourself to drink water—even if you don't like it.

[smokingboot]

Eh, but water's so naked by itself... it needs dressing up with say a teabag or some coffee granules. Even the occasional juniper berry helps ;-)

More seriously, thanks for the heads up, I'll start drinking more water, see if it helps. It certainly can't be bad for me.