Hi everyone,

I just wanted to say thank you for your honesty and your posts. I am so depressed now. I feel like most of my life and enjoyment of life has gone. I have the cancer in 2016 and like many of you had several ops, radiotherapy, chemo, herceptin. I've had 3 different post cancer drugs. Two of them made my hands stiffen unbearably so I couldn't write. I work in a school, so not great. Now I am on tamoxifen and have been for about 18 months. I am in so much pain. My hips, knees, ankles especially. My ankles swell up, I have such bad cramps in my stomach, legs, feet and sometimes my hands. If I manage to walk around a supermarket that's me done for the day. My husband and I try to go for a walk with the dog at weekends but they have to stop when I say. I work full time again now and I cry with pain at the end of the day. Fortunately I work with some incredibly supportive people. I thought it was just me, was I being pathetic. But your posts make me feel like I'll not alone. I've got another 7 years of tamoxifen.