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07 May 12 - 01:57 PM (#3347859) Subject: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: GUEST,olddude PM me if you are currently taking it thank you Dan |
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07 May 12 - 02:17 PM (#3347868) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: Bonzo3legs I should think that anyone who has breast cancer is taking it. |
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07 May 12 - 02:48 PM (#3347882) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: olddude YUP |
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07 May 12 - 02:49 PM (#3347884) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: olddude I need someone currently taking it |
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07 May 12 - 06:09 PM (#3347975) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: Little Robyn 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 |
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07 May 12 - 07:08 PM (#3347992) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: olddude 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 |
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07 May 12 - 08:03 PM (#3348002) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: olddude I will toss them |
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08 May 12 - 06:05 AM (#3348102) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: Bonzo3legs 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! |
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08 May 12 - 07:23 AM (#3348133) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: LilyFestre 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 |
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08 May 12 - 09:30 AM (#3348181) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: GUEST,olddude Michelle good idea, love |
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08 May 12 - 09:55 AM (#3348191) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: Stilly River Sage 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 |
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08 May 12 - 10:48 AM (#3348226) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: GUEST,olddude 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 .. |
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08 May 12 - 11:00 AM (#3348231) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: LilyFestre 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 |
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08 May 12 - 02:11 PM (#3348319) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: Desert Dancer 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 |
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09 May 12 - 06:36 AM (#3348580) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: Fossil 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. |
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09 May 12 - 10:32 AM (#3348666) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: olddude 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 |
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09 May 12 - 05:56 PM (#3348863) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: Little Robyn She is doing great, back to normal ... all cleared up Great! Wonderful! It was hard at the time but the future looks rosy. Robyn |
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09 May 12 - 06:43 PM (#3348888) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: Jack Campin 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. |
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09 May 12 - 08:42 PM (#3348929) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: olddude 30 bucks a pill if you don't have insurance and ya take one everyday. |
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10 May 12 - 12:42 AM (#3348999) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: JohnInKansas 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 |
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10 May 12 - 11:23 AM (#3349158) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: olddude 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 |
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10 May 12 - 03:31 PM (#3349249) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: katlaughing 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. |
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10 May 12 - 04:39 PM (#3349281) Subject: RE: BS: anyone take tamoxifen currently? From: olddude yes for sure and when someone like me spends hundreds and the docs switches what happens we throw them away ... terrible |