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Zoladex injection for breast cancer

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Hi- I was just wondering if anyone has taken zoladex following breast cancer treatment? I finished my chemo and radiotherapy late last year and have been taking tamoxifen since Oct but my oncologist also started me on zoladex injections nearly 2 weeks ago and I've had a pretty heavy period for about 6 days now ( despite not having periods since my chemo started last year) does anyone know if this is normal?

also I've read that there is no benefit to having both zoladex and tamoxifen together so not sure why I need both but has anyone else had this? 
thankyou 

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    Hi I have started experiencing bleeding on zoladex and was wondering if you had any insight to why it occurs? 

  • Offline in reply to Mummy2020

    Hi 

    I wonder if you ever got any response to this? I'm on zoladex (been on it for nearly a year) and had a period this week. Had my last zoladex injection about 23 days before. I wonder if anyone else experienced this. My oncologist seemed puzzled. They suggested to have zoladex every 25 days instead of every 28days. And they swopped my anastrazole to tamoxifen. 

     

    Thank you

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    Im leanne i was diagnoised in sept 2019 had 2 surgerys chemo radiotheorpoy i started on zoladex injection and anastrozole in august 2020 i had it for 3 months i ended up stopping them and going on tamoxifen for 2 months didnt like the side effects at allm so oncoligst plut me bk on zoladex injections and anastrozole i had my 2 injection 17 days ago for 12 days iv been bleeding none stop 1st it was black then red then like brownish discharge im getting a few pains in me legs groins n back has any1 else exsperienced this at all im so worried the doctor wants tok exsamine me when iv stoppesd bleeding i dont know what to think thank u soorry about the spelling

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    Hi 

    Im leanne i was diagnoised in sept 2019 had 2 surgerys chemo radiotheorpoy i started on zoladex injection and anastrozole in august 2020 i had it for 3 months i ended up stopping them and going on tamoxifen for 2 months didnt like the side effects at allm so oncoligst plut me bk on zoladex injections and anastrozole i had my 2 injection 17 days ago for 12 days iv been bleeding none stop 1st it was black then red then like brownish discharge im getting a few pains in me legs groins n back has any1 else exsperienced this at all im so worried the doctor wants tok exsamine me when iv stoppesd bleeding i dont know what to think thank u soorry about the spelling

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