Faslodex, you are very strange

Conceptual Faslodex in action, from AstraZeneca's video here

As I've mentioned before, one of the medicines I'm on to try and control the cancer is an injected drug called Faslodex.  It's given as 2 intramuscular injections every 2 weeks for the first 3 doses and monthly thereafter.

And it is a strange, strange drug.

For me, anyway, on the day of the injections the injection sites have this kind of cold burning pain.  About a day after that, the muscles it's injected into ache.  And after that, the bones in my hips ache.  Then the bones in my spine ache.  Then the muscles in my back ache.

And then, about a week later, after everything has settled down again and I'm feeling good, the muscles where it was injected ache, then the injection sites again have this kind of cold burning pain.  And then the bones in my hips ache. Then the bones in my spine ache.  After that, the muscles in my back start to ache.  And then....

It's certainly managable, not that terrible, and definately less painful than the pain I was having from the cancer itself before radiation zapped it away.

But it's really, really weird.

It happened with my first does and now with my second dose, too.  And last week along with the Faslodex, I also had the Lupron injected into the muscle and it brused a bit and was easily forgotten, so I'm pretty sure the issue isn't the injection and isn't the muscle, it seems to be the Faslodex itself.

From what I read online from others on the drug, not everyone has the same reactions, and for some people it's different each time.  I have another injection of it next week and after that I go a month between doses--I'm curious to see if continues and how it goes with a full month in between shots and whether it goes more smoothly with time.

Of course, in all honestly, even if it does stay exactly this way over and over for as long as I'm on it, I'm ok with it.  As long as it does what it's hoped to do in terms of slowing the cancer, Faslodex and I will be getting along just fine.

But is it very, very strange.