How many side effects are there?

The GoGo's were right. Vacation, all I ever wanted. Vacation, had to get away. Vacation, where I talk about Tamoxifen side effects in laundry list form and am not even aware of it. Wait a minute....

Around Tuesday, while hiking Camelback Mountain, when I was "boot scootin'" {sliding down rocks on my bum on the decent} I was explaining to my brother that I preferred to go down in more of a crab walk version than facing the rocks because my feet cramp so often now I wanted a heal strike instead of pushing off on my toes. I explained that one of the side effects of tamoxifen . We had already started our ascent early in the morning because as well documented my internal thermastat is way broken. And when the week's weather was this:

And at 7 am it was already high 80's. And I was already purple and slathered in sunscreen. My brother looked at me because I had already explained my muscle tightness and joint soreness that has seriously hamstringed my outdoor track season and that made our climb not very pretty on account of the tamoxifen. My ridiculous internal temperature and inability to cool off he already knew was attributed to tamoxifen. And despite the fact that I exercise I still feel out of shape and run out of steam about 20 minutes into anything and have to take more breaks than I like. I attribute this to tamoxifen.  We turned these breaks into photo ops on the mountain. The decent I was able to do in one solid piece.

The last comment about my foot cramps, led my brother to ask me "How many side effects are there"
"Not many. I know it seems like I am blaming everything on tamoxifen. But, it's fine" Then I looked down out my fingernails, which I am now painting because the black spots have returned to my nails from the tamoxifen. Hmm...perhaps I am having a few more side effects than I usually own up to and perhaps I really do blame everything on tamoxifen.

I am happy to be home and back in 57 F, my system seems to enjoy that a little bit better. I am still thoroughly heat rashed. However, because my father also came down with a severe case of heat rash I am NOT going to blame that on tamoxifen. For now...