BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?

Subject: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 07 May 12 - 01:57 PM

PM me if you are currently taking it
thank you
Dan

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 07 May 12 - 02:17 PM

I should think that anyone who has breast cancer is taking it.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: olddude
Date: 07 May 12 - 02:48 PM

YUP

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: olddude
Date: 07 May 12 - 02:49 PM

I need someone currently taking it

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 07 May 12 - 06:09 PM

I refused it - had the whole lot chopped off and hopefully won't need anything else although I was offered hormones to stop the other side doing the same thing. But those hormones could cause all sorts of other cancers 'down below' and harm other stuff like blood pressure. Why would I want to go there?
How's your lady?
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: olddude
Date: 07 May 12 - 07:08 PM

She doing fine they switch her to another drug. I have 4 full bottles of the stuff I don't want to toss out if someone needs it

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: olddude
Date: 07 May 12 - 08:03 PM

I will toss them

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 08 May 12 - 06:05 AM

My wife took it for 5 years from 1994, and says that her weight increased slightly - but she's still going strong 18 years later!

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 08 May 12 - 07:23 AM

Dan,

Please take those meds to your local state police as they have a program where they can dispose of them properly so those meds don't end up in our water system somewhere down the road.


Love to you and your Mrs.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 08 May 12 - 09:30 AM

Michelle
good idea,

love

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 May 12 - 09:55 AM

My mother discovered, as many apparently do, that it stops working after about 5 years. When she started taking it she found it had a estrogen effect. It has been several years since she reported that.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 08 May 12 - 10:48 AM

kind of a shame, this stuff is very expensive. I thought maybe someone who is taking it could use it .. I should give it to my doc buddy to give to another patient instead of dumping it off for disposal, that would be the right thing to do and I don't know why I didn't think of it first ..

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 08 May 12 - 11:00 AM

If your doctor friend will do that, I think it's a GREAT idea! I hate to see it go to waste as well!

XOXOOXOX

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 08 May 12 - 02:11 PM

I'm due to go on on it by the end of the week. Not particularly enthusiastic. I need to read up.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: Fossil
Date: 09 May 12 - 06:36 AM

I'm a pharmacist. Sorry, Olddude, excess meds *have* to be destroyed, they can't safely be re-used.

The point being - from the point of view of any health professional - is, that once the med has gone out of the door, you don't know and cannot tell, under what conditions it has been stored. Or if it has been tampered with. So you cannot, ethically give it to any other patient.

Long, long ago, I used to be an activist in collecting old meds which were sent by a UK church group to Africa. Eventually we were asked to stop doing this, for just this reason - it was too uncertain and we didn't want anyone's death on our collective conscience.

Return your excess meds to your local pharmacy or hospital - or make sure they are disposed of as hazardous waste. Do *not* flush them or send them to landfill.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: olddude
Date: 09 May 12 - 10:32 AM

Fossil
so true, that's what my doc buddie said. He wished he could because it is so expensive and would help someone who can't afford it ... sadly if someone doesn't need them then I have to take them to the pharmacy for disposal. I have a 3 months supply that I paid for and she doesn't take. I guess they wanted some other med instead ...so switched her.   She is doing great, back to normal ... all cleared up

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 09 May 12 - 05:56 PM

She is doing great, back to normal ... all cleared up

Great! Wonderful! It was hard at the time but the future looks rosy.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 May 12 - 06:43 PM

I'm a pharmacist. Sorry, Olddude, excess meds *have* to be destroyed, they can't safely be re-used.

The point being - from the point of view of any health professional - is, that once the med has gone out of the door, you don't know and cannot tell, under what conditions it has been stored. Or if it has been tampered with. So you cannot, ethically give it to any other patient.

Which makes sense in the UK, but NOT in the US, where drug costs quite frequently drive people into bankruptcy.

Losing your house to debt has a much greater chance of causing serious illness than taking improperly stored medication.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: olddude
Date: 09 May 12 - 08:42 PM

30 bucks a pill if you don't have insurance and ya take one everyday.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 10 May 12 - 12:42 AM

My understanding of the rules in the US is that they're pretty much the same as in the UK. Occasionally there are reports of "medical recycling" but it's not common, and the "rules" are vague enough to make many who could engage in pass-on meds extremely reluctant to be involved.

Additonally, tamoxifen is one of the drugs recently reported as being in extremely short supply in the US, with the result that there was a "flood(?)" of counterfeiting of it, which would significantly increase the difficulty of proving safe provenance for anything coming from "outside normal channels" that you might consider passing on to another patient.

And of course there's the additional risk that anyone found simply possessing any prescription drug that doesn't have the name of a licensed dispenser and the name of the person who has it on the package would likely result in arrest and an "illicit drug possession" charge from our ever zealous police and DEA.

John

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: olddude
Date: 10 May 12 - 11:23 AM

Yea, mine have my wife's name on it, the pharmacy id and doc, they are unopened and were purchased 3 weeks ago .. a 90 day supply ... now they get tossed and someone that has no money is scraping pennies to get what they need. Nothing makes sense for sure

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 May 12 - 03:31 PM

I had to purchase three pills for over a weekend one time, of a different drugs. Those three cost us over eighty bucks. It is terrible.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently?
From: olddude
Date: 10 May 12 - 04:39 PM

yes for sure and when someone like me spends hundreds and the docs switches what happens we throw them away ... terrible