My Tamoxifen Journey

10yrs ago I had breast cancer. I was 27. I had a 3mo old. Obviously I “beat it”, although most of the time I don’t feel like my life has ever been the same. After treatment and surgery I started on Tamoxifen to help reduce chance of recurrence.

I was on it about a year. It was miserable. My side effects were brutal and I hated every single day. I was a newlywed with a baby and I hated each day that I woke up. I decided to come off the Tamoxifen.

When I came off the med and finally started feeling human we decided we wanted to have more children. We both went through fertility testing and then I went through fertility treatments. We suffered 2 losses and then had our beautiful little girl on October 11, 2019.

After her we spent many years attempting to have another child. We suffered many losses and spent every bit of savings we had on fertility treatments, but after all the loss (2 being within the last 12 months) we finally decided to call it quits.

On September 4 I had my fallopian tubes removed. After my sterilization, I started the Tamoxifen back up. It’s been about a month now, and thankfully it’s nothing like before-or maybe at this point I’m just doing so awful at baseline that I don’t notice.

I want to hear from other women who are premenopausal and take Tamoxifen. How is your body reacting?