Heel

Before tamoxifen and weeks after chemo my muscles ached less. But almost right away once I started tamoxifen, the muscles in my legs and heals ached a ton -- especially when I wake up. Many times I wake and crawl to the bathroom to avoid the pain. Once I'm up -- once the blood starts flowing down to my legs, I'm much better and walk cautiously back to bed.

I find that when I juice more it happens less. I also find when I sleep with a hot  water bottle or compression socks, I feel better. 

I run daily and the ache is there when I start but it does go away. In fact, I'm much worse when I don't run -- so, I run to keep me going stronger than otherwise. 

I googled to see if others experience anything similar and I found this link:

http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/78/topic/738926

One thing I haven't done is to increase my calcium and magnesium to 2:1 ratio (calcium 2 magnesium 1). In particular, a dose of 1500 mg of calcium and 500 mg of magnesium is recommended.

In terms of natural ways of getting magnesium and calcium, I did eat many more veggies last night before a faster 10k run this morning and my heel pain was less than the last time a ran a similar workout ( the last time, the pain gradually increased in mile 3; today it didn't happen til mile 5) so I can see the benefits of increased minerals. Currently 5 months now on tamoxifen with a lot of learning still going on and forever staying hopeful and positive.