I was on Arimidex at the, do you know there’s some times I have to say that in hindsight now are a blur. I can’t tell you exactly when I started Arimidex, but if I remember correctly it will have been after the first, after the last chemo. I think that’s when I started taking the Arimidex. The Arimidex itself, right my fingers, finger joints, my toes, the morning of the, there’s an underlying nausea. And the joint pain gets better during the day, but first thing in the morning my arms just feel as if I’m wearing leather gauntlets. And the joints are tired and heavy. That I have definitely had. The nausea, the burning from the inside, it’s almost as if within a day you experience early pregnancy and menopause in one day. Thankfully not at the same time.

Even now two years, about, not two years on but about eighteen months or so on, you have the side effects?

It’s slightly, the nausea has gone, but only recently. Now that you mention it, no the nausea was still there at Christmas and early January. But it’s sort of within the last six weeks or so that there has definitely been a change and that includes the nausea. The hot, the burning is no longer quite such a sense of burning from the inside out. It is more now like a hot flush that I get. Yeah, I seem to, regular as clockwork around 11 at night in the evening, I sort of think, “I want to go to bed, but I’d better not, I’m just far too hot at the moment.” There is that.  And I wake up in the morning sometimes and I just feel hot and sticky. So the hot flushes, but they have changed.

And how long do you have to take the Arimidex?

I’ve got another three years to go.