I started my treatment last December and I find the injections, every 4 weeks,  into the base of my spine/buttock area particularly painful. (Fulvestrant).

Surely the nurses who give these dreadful injections should be trained better, one I had put the liquid in so fast I nearly passed out.  I could not sit back in a chair for a week, nor have a bath as I could not stand the heat.  Another injected straight through my sciatic nerve and I couldn't walk properly for 5 days, the pain continued for 3 weeks.  I start to get anxiety a week before these injections and by blood pressure on the day is through the roof.  I have mentioned it to the Oncologist but he shrugged his shoulders and said there was nothing he could do.  Is there anything I can do?  They should take a minimum of 2 minutes each injection, which I pointed out to the nurse last time, she looked very surprised that I had said anything.  Are there alternatives to introduce this into my body?  Also is there any medication I can take to offset the tiredness I feel in the week before the dreaded injections.  I still go out to dinner with friends and meet in the pub for a game of cards etc but the exhaustion I feel completely ruins this.  

I was listening to Trisha Goddard, on the radio who has the same as me, she said she is given a drug to counteract this exhaustion, do you know what it is?