Tamoxifen,no sleep, weight gain,bad stomach

well the title says it all. I'm 4 weeks on from RT and i feel ***!! no sleep unless i pop a sleeping pill. stimach so bloated i feel like a fat pig! waking up hot flushes, close window because im then freezing. its now 6.45 A.m sat bold upright as stomach so upset.is it the Tamoxifen ? Yes !!  I felt extremly tired from Rt and sore but not like this.! and they want me to do this for 10 years!  I feel depressed because i feel now at 45 my life is over and I don't have long left before it comes back! I know I cannot live like this for 10 years!!  I am single and it also depresses me to think my sex life is over at 45 as Who would want to bed a women with no energy, fat stomach,sweating all night insomniac ! Rang breast care nurse she wasny much help suggested I take a holiday on my own and leave my kids at home if they didn't want to go! ( as if! im lonley enough as it is why would I pay hundreds of pounds to sit at a dinner table alone all week? what a crazy suggestion.)  Oh and I've stopped speaking to friends as quite honestly I'm envious of their perfect lives with new boyfriends and holidays!!  *** off? you bet I am. 

  • Hi Suziesuze,

    I can sympayhise with you as when I was having treatment for my prostate cancer I was on Zoladex hormone therapy. I suffered from hot flushes and woke up most nights bathed in sweat.Then like you cooled down and couldnt get back off to sleep.  I put on a lot of weight which I have still not managed to lose. way after treatment has ended I had mood swings where at the slightest thing, I had tears in my eyes and I had no control over it. I suffered and still do from E.D.  but at my time of life its not too bad.

    The only way I have looked at it, in my case the hormone therapy together with the radiotherapy saved my life for which I am very pleased, Brian

  • Hi Brian, Its just I am only just on year one of all this crap, well 6 months ago if im honest and i feel if this is only month one/two on the drug how the hell can I cope with 10 years of this. I rang the hosp today to speek to the oncon.

     

    Suzie