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Help with interview!
I need your help please - ASAP. A friend of mine edits for a community news magazine and is wanting to interview me for an upcoming article on the value of the internet for research by the average person. Problem: I can't think of all the ways I have found that are so helpful (chemo brain at work). Please give me your…
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tamoxifen - weight gain?
Please tell me does Tamoxifen cause weight gain? I've been on it for 1 1/2 yrs have gained 10lbs, I exercise and eat right, will I keep gained no matter what I do for the next 3 1/2 yrs? or can I stop it? what's your experience?
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Her2+
HI. I'm new to this group and wanted to see if their was anyone out there who is in my situation. I was diagnosed in March of 2000. Had a lumpectomy followed by 4 a/c's and 4 taxols. I've had 50 treatments of herceptin with only 2 remaining. I want to stay on the herceptin but my doctor will not let me. In talking with…
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tcbangels brother
Heh all of you out there thanks so much for all of you writing back to say you all are praying for my big brother.I'm writing because tomorrow he goes to M.D. Anderson to have cat scans to see to check & see if its in lymph nodes .I have a question for you all because i never had radiation therapy,i only had chemeo .David…
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Follow-up care after breast cancer
Hi! I finished chemo in March and radiation in May. Went to the doc today and he gave me the choice of regular follow-ups, with just a physical, yearly mammogram and pelvic (I'm on tamoxifen) or all that plus lab tests. He gave me an article from the New England journal of medicine (October 2000) that indicates that blood…
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Question about scans
Hi, all. It's Mel here. Still have questions about the scans they will be doing next week (had my last chemo on May 24). I began with Stage II with 2 out of 16 nodes involved. After bilateral mastec., all scans were clear before starting chemo. I feel that the scans will be okay, but there is this nagging little fear that…
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breast lumps
would anyone please share with me how you discovered your lump and how it felt, and size. was it moveable, very hard, or what. did you have any other symptoms. how terrible is chemo. can you even function through it.
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finally can talk about it
I know all of you out there are probably wishing that I would stop talking about it here everyday.I never got to go to a support group i would talk to my husband & family oh they all love me & were there for me , but being able to talk to somebody thats been through it I haven't until now.It makes me feel so good when I…
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finally can talk about it
I know all of you out there are probably wishing that I would stop talking about it here everyday.I never got to go to a support group i would talk to my husband & family oh they all love me & were there for me , but being able to talk to somebody thats been through it I haven't until now.It makes me feel so good when I…
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the good the bad and the beautiful!
Hi everyone, Well tomorrow is my mom's last a/c treatment (good), I wish I could be with her in Va. instead of here in Mi.(bad) I have made the 12 hr drive several times over the last few months to be with her,and talk to her daily.However, the 3rd treatment kicked her butt, and she doesn't want us to visit until she's…
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glutamine and taxol
i have just completed 4 a/c and will be starting 4 taxol. i have heard that there has been some success with glutamine powder helping with side effect of joint pain. has anyone tried it and at what dosage? any other suggestions for dealing with taxol side effects? thanks so much, cathy
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2nd Chemo next week
Hi everyone. Sorry I have not been very active in the group lately but the chemo really knocked me energy wise for some time. I maanged with minimal nausea & vomiting but had major temperature swings & as I was on Adriomycin that has to be watched as a fever is so dangerous. I am scheduled for 2nd chemo next Thursday…
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pray for my brother
I know maybe I'm writing this in the wrong area, I had breast cancer 6yrs ago & this is my first time to talk about it to people who knows what I'm going through. I'm writing about my brother he was diagnose with cancer of the vocal cords 2 had cancer.They going to do 7wks radiation on him, he is so scared.Our parents both…
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Finished with chemo & ready for scans and reconstruction!!
Hi, all! I had my last chemo on May 31st and will see my Onco on June 28 to schedule my scans. I am so thankful to be finished with chemo! This week is the first week in a very long time that I worked a full 40 hour week and still had energy to spare! I have received Procit shots the last 2 weeks (the week after chemo had…
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chemo affect on nails?
Has anyone had A/C or taxol treatments affect their nails? Several on both my hands are feet have dark spots, some are weak and quite useless. Dr. says it is result of chemo treatments and will go away - anyone else experience this problem?
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I walked!!!
HI all there again!!! Well, you all told me to use the wheelchair in the relay, but, well, you know me, I walked the first lap and then walked six more laps with other members of my team throughout the night. I know, I know, I already got hell from my husbands secretary!! But I felt so good I just had to go go go!! It was…
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chemo (or not)
Thank you everybody for your prompt answers to my question. As far as we know, I am doing fine with Tamoxifen alone. Routine check on 6/19. D.
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preventive masectomy
can anybody tell me about preventive masectomy? When I lost my breast in 1995 i had a cyst on my right it is still there today, a lot of my family has read on this surgery that with my history of breast disease because I always have boils & cyst all the time on this breast, one Doctor recommends me to have it .I'm 6yrs…
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preventive masectomy
can anybody tell me about preventive masectomy? When I lost my breast in 1995 i had a cyst on my right it is still there today, a lot of my family has read on this surgery that with my history of breast disease because I always have boils & cyst all the time on this breast, one Doctor recommends me to have it .I'm 6yrs…
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Metastatic Breast Cancer - anyone had it to brain
Hi, I was diagnosed with early stages of breast cancer in May 1997, I was 31 years old. Had a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, no chemo or radiation. In May 2000, I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. There was another lump on my reconstructed breast and I had 30 out of 35 lymph nodes under my arm positive…
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ct scans and bone scans
Hello to all. I'm new to the group, but I feel linked to all of you. I had a double mastectomy 14 months ago. I went through four A/C chemotherapy treatments. I have had a diagnosis of osteoporosis for a few years. My concern: I have broken two ribs in the last few months, and have very little idea how I have done so! Am I…
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Breast cancer my own story
Hello out there I'm new to computers but not to breast cancer.I would like to share my story with all of you who wants to read this letter on my cancer.I got cancer 6yrs ago, I had a boil on my right breast that just wouldn't go away ,it just stayed there it would flare up than go back down.I was at work & I felt my Mom…
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paxil for hot flashes
like many of you, i stopped having periods after a few chemo sessions and started having flashes. these are not the hot flashes my mother told me about. these are atomic 4 hour, wear baggies filled with ice under your baseball cap flashes. anyway, i've read some very promising things about paxil (the antidepressant)…
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fluid under my arm
I had a masectomy in march of 1995 ,they removed 16 lymph nodes & 1 sweat gland. I have had problemns with it from the first day i had my surgery. I would walk that wall no matter how much pain I was in. I wouldn't stop.Well in this last year it has got so badthat I can't hardly raise my arm .My husband he gets & breaks…
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Thanks for advice on headaches
Thanks for the advice on the headaches. I think it turned out to be a combination of the medications and sinuses. My white counts dropped to 1200 and I ended up in the ER with 101 fever. Everything checked out ok and the antibiotics have knocked it out. What a way to start out! This was my first chemo. I go back on the…
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chemo/diabetes
Hello! Have any of you had trouble with diabetes after starting chemo? A friend just told me that she now has this problem too! I was wondering if it happens very often. Thanks for any info. Hugs from Brenda
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chemo (or not)
After unilateral mastecomy and reconstruction I decided to take only Tamoxifen and forego chemo. Anyone else? I had one positve node.
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Hear the Tigers Roar!!!
Hi there all!!!! Sorry I have been absent for so long, but this new Xeloda treatment has had some funky effects on my hands and feet. I kind of needed a break from the site too, I was getting a bit depressed with all the new people. When you dont have cancer you dont think about it, but when you have it, all of a sudden it…
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Sharing time : psychological factors for cancer ? Cures ?
Hi everyone ! I hope you are all well ! Here in Switzerland it is sunny (at last !). I wanted to share something I've read with you. It seems in Quebec there is a school of psychologists and doctors who are studying the MEANING of illnesses. The concept behind this is that our brain reacts to a psychological threat, real…
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Help with side effects of A/C chemotherapy
I am new to this discussion group. I was diagnosed with a stage II Invasive Lobular Carcinoma over 2 months ago. There was some cancer in the first lymph node so I have just received my second of four chemo treatments (adriamycin & cytoxin). I did have lumpectomy and will receive radiation and tamoxifen. The chemo seems to…