Tamoxifen and weight gain.....

I am coming up to a 1 year anniversary, its one year since I finished chemo and joyfully, and it's one year since I started on the dreaded tamoxifen, its taken the best part of a year and much munching on my part (increased appetite) and whilst I am eternally grateful for the drug and the fact that I have access to it I am not so happy about the weight gain, admittedly I have been chomping for England lol but seriously not that bad, I have given up red meat and only eat chicken once a month, I green juice everyday and drink a pint of the good stuff, I have to admit that chocolate has become my one weakness and I will happily woof down a whole bag of Revels but what else can you nibble on, trying like mad to cut out cheese and butter, basically just looking at anything with fat in it makes me put on weight. Up until this dx I had stayed the same size since the age of 18 size 8-10, able to eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted and didn't give the weight issue any thought, now I am a size 12 and feel that even the size 12 clothes I have are tight on me, this is a nightmare, going to have to do some more exercise and try and loose this weight the only trouble is I'm not sure if you can loose weight on tamoxifen, I been given to understand that the way tamoxifen works with your metabolism it slows it down, this makes sense but the side effect is weight gain, also as I am now in early menopause naturally weight will go on especially round the middle, its a total bummer, will be looking on the forum too see what others have experienced and what can be done about it.

I was starting too feel sort of normal again and then I realised I'd put on a mountain of weight and feel a   bit crushed now, ah well I suppose the alternative and not taking tamoxifen is just too awful to comprehend, added to that I also am suffering endless bouts of constipation and as a result have a sore rear end, breast cancer is such a shit! this disease just keeps on giving :0(

Misson accomplished.....

A quick post to say we did it, we did the run for life, walked the majority but actually ran the last little bit of it lol, we have raised somewhere in the region of £250 but after we have collected in all the rest of the donations it will be in around the £350 mark, so a big thank you to all who sponsored us and donated, the only way we can beat this cancer shit is with more research and that unfortunately costs money.

Here's some pics of us on completion of the race only very slightly achey legs lol but very happyxxx

Promising new drugs.......

Smart Bomb lets blast breast cancer off the face of the earth YEA! Check this link out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-hBh8o5MNU&feature=player_embedded

Fascinating new drug here's the link http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/news/archive/cancernews/2012-06-13-Cancer-fighting-virus-piggybacks-on-blood-cells
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Race for Life.......

The big C, the little c, canser, cansir, cancer it really doesn't matter which way you say it, it all adds up to the same thing, a skull drag through hell is the best way to describe this terrible disease, the statistic's are that 1 in 3 people will suffer with this, so myself and my mate also called Sarah are doing the 'Race for Life' (or as I call it 'the walk for life' lol cause I ain't gonna be doing any sprinting thats for sure! but we will complete the course its being held in Plymouth down on the Hoe on the 24th June 2012 and we will do 5k, if you wanna donate that would be so fab you can donate via this link to our page entitled the Sarahi (a result of a joke when we worked at Archant together) here's the link http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/sarahi6
Thank you for sponsoring us or donating every little helps fight the fight and brings us a step closer to a cure.

Love and light to you all

sarah xxx