What I use to counter the side effects of Tamoxifen ache.
That i am doing a post about the oils that i used because i am now three years in one of the side-effects of tamoxifen is achy joints so i have a few ants in my hands and my feet specifically when you get up in the morning you can have like very achy feet i see a nutritionist who has recommended some products and i was gonna show them to you i’ve been doing them
For almost three years now and they really do help because i noticed that when you know i run out and i can’t get get them and you know and i’m not taking them for a few days my joints start to ache really bad my feet eight more so what i take on a daily basis to help with the side effects of tamoxifen this is really just for the achy joint part of tamoxifen that
What tamoxifen does although before i just name the oils tamoxifen blocks your estrogen and who knew but estrogen lubricates helps lubricate the joints so that’s why there’s the achiness okay so i take two in the morning and one in the evening tuna omega chewables now i don’t do them i swallow them and i could not take fish oil ever i tried years ago you know
Just like in college and stuff and it would always like berbick oil and so what is different about this is it is what i’ve been told is it’s been i think free frozen or something the way it is manufactured so it is freeze-dried so it’s fast frozen or something like that and then that way on it and then for some reason i don’t at all have any i don’t burp up fish
Favourite stuff so i take that i take two in the morning one in the evening i also take linen b6 which is also oil that helps with joints and the products are from standard process and i take that three times a day i usually just take it two times a day because i the container i use is morning and evening and honestly i i can’t be carting around a middle of the
Day pack as well of pills but if i’m home or if i remember i’ll try to slip that in but i’m produced really pretty well twice a day with that i just added this one in evening primrose oil because i was having some achiness in my right foot even more especially when i run and it’s called evening primrose oil and it’s by many or it’s the same standard process and i
Take dot it’s recommended she said you could take it once a day but in the beginning she gave me like samples to try and i added it and it really worked and i would do once day she said if you’re still feeling achiness take it twice a day i added the second pill and it’s great so those are the oils that i’m taking currently for my joint pain it really helps now
I also take because max pain can cause your bones to what’s it called oh my gosh you can’t think of it you know it’s not the right word i take austere flex and that helps it this but so i take two in the morning and two in the evening and oh my gosh when people get old and they get this they can get like it’s brittle bones but that’s not that’s like a common term
For it i can’t think of the name of it it’ll come to me but that helps to counteract the effects of tamoxifen and i also take i get a lot of i was getting a ton of muscle spasms and really bad muscle aches and things and so i take this it’s not through the nutritionist this is through my acupuncturist cal sticks so it’s calcium divided b6 and magnesium so it but
It’s this brand it’s called douglass laboratories i’ve tried to say you fail through this version of they’re not the same and this was on backboard i couldn’t get it for a while and i felt the difference my muscles start spazzing again tightening up i think charley horses like waking up in the middle of night gettin charley horses and so once it started taking it
So it went away and that’s a real problem if you’re a very active person so how do i keep track of all this crap that’s just 1 2 3 4 5 those are just five things i take i have a whole container of other things i take so those are the oils i use this kind of bulky thing um i just got the color the colorful one i bought this on amazon this is bpa free and they have
I take you can see sunday monday you know this is the a.m. and then this is the pm and it just pops open and all my pills for the evening would be in here see i mean all my pills for that day in the morning are there and like i said i don’t have a middle of the day one i’ve actually considered getting a middle of dave or one and then just putting the extra some
Of the pills i take during the day but those are just the oils i take and then i take obviously the tamoxifen and the effexor and i’m now on a topic try something some other things that’s a whole other thing but and then i take a multivitamin biotin those all help but what really helps with the joints in the joint ache and everything are these oils and it’s this
Branchy brands well this brand they’re really a high quality and i take many many whales though i just thought i would do a kind of to celebrate the anniversary of three years down i have two more to go tamoxifen consumption i’m almost done i’m almost there i have also added fasting as though and i feel so much better i can’t even believe how much better i feel
I’m not as tired at all and that was a big thing on tamoxifen being tired and i have a toddler that i’m running after and all the time and that’s exhausting and i the fasting has really helped so that’s a type that that’s pretty much what i’ve been doing to counteract the effects of tamoxifen it’s what i’ve learned in the three years i’ve been on it july 20th of
2016 is when i started i started at 20 milligrams um and i gained 25 pounds of water weight and in a month and a half when i started and it was really horrible and so they took me off of that tamoxifen for a month and a half and then i was on it for about a year and then they decided over the summer that summer of 2017 so i was on a for a year with that extra
Like hearing all this water weight around they switched it to 10 milligrams i would i went off i went on his moccasin break for a month the pain and everything was just so bad and the water retention you could almost see it in my bone my skin was so bad so he put me on ten and i started that again i went off for a month in that august and then i started back in
September and of 2017 so i’ve been on it after three years i for two years ten milligrams and i’ve been i immediately lost at least it was like ten pounds and i still retain a ton of water but it’s much better the fasting it actually helped and i what i’m doing with the fasting is i’m eating between 12 and 7 everyday and then they added a water pill too so i take
That certain times of the month and that releases a lot of the water it’s an ongoing battle but i three years down now and i may switch to five milligrams that is an option for me but i’m a little nervous about it but my oncologist is ok with it because i’m considered low risk for recurrence or a new primary so and the the statistics are showing that it’s an equal
What’s the word it’s an equal kind of study there show it’s like equal results as to being on the 10th of the yeah for my my my it’s not for everyone but for me because i’m low risk considered low risk so there’s a lot to think about but as of right now i’m staying on the 10 the fasting has really helped me because it was really going to the point i was so tired
All the time and so we’ll see where that goes i’m gonna see my oncologist again in december i think i can email him and tell him hey this is how i feel i might just try to hang on a little longer but the three-year mark is kind of significant because that’s really where the studies showed the significance of decrease of recurrence and new primaries of forming from
Being on it for three years so that’s like i’m like and what i’ve discovered is i’m i don’t know if it’s helpful to anyone or not but those oils are really they really do help and yeah that’s it two more years two more years two more you have good days
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Oils for Tamoxifen By Keep Abreast W/ Heather A Cancer Survivor’s Story
