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Breast Cancer
Archives for December 2008
Discussion List
Tis the season....
This was posted on my 'other' cancer (colorectal) board....too funny!!! Three bar buddies, Jim, Joe and James die and go to heaven. All three meet St. Peter at the pearly gates and he says to them, "Well, being that this is the holiday season, before I let you in, you must show me something that reminds you of the holiday…
DIEP reconstruction
I am considering DIEP breast reconstruction. Does anyone have any feedback on what to expect?
i am scared
I am 45 years old and i just found tonight that i have breast cancer i don't what is going to happen to me and i am scared to death. I keep asking myself why me i am healthy i have been s,ender all my life i don't drink i am the first woman in my family that has breast cancer.
unclean lunpectomy margins, 2nd surgery?
Hi everyone, I was diagnosed with stage one DCIS 3 weeks ago. I had a lumpectomy but now I have to have another surgery because two margins were "dirty." I am worried. Has anyone had this situation?
New to the group seeing help with fatigue
I have just finished my first round of chemo. Next week I start taxol. The last two A/C chemos have thrown me through a loop, fatigue and nausea (what else is new!). Actully the fatigue is pretty bad. I feel best laying in bed. Yesterday I just didn't have the strength to move ... honestly. I'm wondering if depression is…
Side Effects Of Breast Cancer Treatment Reduced By Acupuncture
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/122612.php Supposedly better than Effexor for hot flashes. Claudia, I know you mentioned this before.....and you were right :)
Seriously depressed and anxious
I was diagnosed last February and am stage 3a. Had a bilateral mastectomy in April; had dose dense chemo; had radiation that ended last October. I was doing OK until near the end of radiation and now I feel I have fallen down the rabbit hole. I started Effexor about 6 weeks ago, coupled with Klonopin two times a day, but I…
Any one give up 0n tamixifen?????????????
I am having to sleep on a bath towel, can't drive can't function.............HELP!
DEC 15TH
Hello all my bc buddies. Well Dec 15th is looming, some may not know it is the one year anniversary of my sister's passing to pancreatic cancer. When she knew she would be leaving us she started boxing stuff for goodwill and setting stuff aside for us. Over the weekend i put up Christmas decorations and pulled out a heart…