Hi and help!! Sorry if this sounds desperate but I feel like a drowning woman! I used 50 mg of doxepin for 11 years to cope with an autoimmune disorder. Then, as luck (or bad luck) would have it, I developed invasive breast cancer. It was caught early and the prognosis is good. HOWEVER, then I found research that implicates long-term use of doxepin in invasive breast cancer. I went off it, just to be safe, but am having a very difficult time without it, and it seemed to be the only medicine that really helped me. Additionally, now I feel like I gave cancer to myself for being on it so long. Does any one know more about this research, or have an opinion? I need my med but am so afraid! may God Bless You. [LIST]
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I have been taking doxepin off and on for 35 years and recently cancer of the appendix which spread to outside of colon. No cancer in family, mom or dad s side so the first thing I thought of was the doxepin. HELP
-------------------- Is this stuff any good. Doe s it cause insomnia, which is one of the reasons I am taking it Posts: 3 | Registered: Nov 2005
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Theresa, Hang in there, God is with us! About the Doxepin, it gave me the best night's sleep ever, and I also breezed thru chemo while on it, I truly miss it, doesn't that sound like an addict LOL. I never heard anything about it causing any other kind of cancer, but who know? They said for breast ca it shows up 11 to 17 years after initial exposure. Mine was the 11 the year. But cancer runs in my family. Just to be safe I won't go back on.
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