Life post daily cancer treatment has been great. I enjoy being able to keep my shirt on once I get to work. I originally planned on waiting two weeks before starting the tamoxifen, but that failed. After doing something daily to fight cancer for 7 months I was getting a little cukoo pants by just running and eating well. My SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator, or what I prefer calling tamoxifen) is currently only causing burning in my stomach. I will say my internal thermometer is a couple of degrees warmer. I noticed this weekend at a conference (to lobby for better Federally based nutrition programs-please don't cut SNAP!) of 400 women (mostly) I was one of the few people in short-sleeves at all times. The ages ranged from 20 to 80 years of age.
Day 6 of taking the SERM I felt the beginning of the heat. I fell asleep very briefly on Monday night and all of a sudden I started to get really warm. It was as if summon had lit the top of my head on fire and the rest of my body was made of paper because wooooooosh all the way through the bottom of my feet went the fire. I shot out of bed to put my bare feet on the ice cold bathroom tile floor. And of course singing the menopausal woman's national anthem:
Luckily it passed and I cooled off enough to go to sleep. Nothing since then. Phew.
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