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Breast Cancer

Archives for January 2010

???? about my expanders
Ok so I just had my first expander fill today...not too much discomfort at all. However I do have a question that I should have asked my surgeon...Are my boobs suppose to be under my chin? They are up soooo high! I am just wondering if after it is all said and done and I have them swapped for silicon...will they still be…
Need input, arm alittle swollen
So, I had my 5th rads today and told the techs that my hand was a little 'puffy', my arm, too, but really only slightly. No one available to help me until tomorrow. So, of course, I turn to you. My surgery, lumpectomy & 2 nodes (only 1 pos), was 12/7. Had a very tight tendon - like a cord - underarm, which is better now.…
Tomorrow Chemo #2 Carbo/Taxotere/Herceptin
Just wanted to say hello to everyone. Tomorrow I go for Chemo treatment # 2. I hope it goes as well as the first one did. They said my periods would stop. I started right on time Saturday. They said my hair would come out, so far it's grown. I guess it's just a matter of time. I have been doing really well so far. I hate…
First dance with NED
Just got the phone call from my oncologist office. The results from my PET SCAN... woo hoo no evidence of disease. What a great feeling! Think I'll enjoy this dance. It's weird I can remember joining this board all those months ago and reading about other woman's dance and seemed like this day was so far away for me, but…
reconstruction concerns
I had a double Mastectomy 11/14/08 and finished all treatment. I've have decided to start my reconstruction. I'm a good candidate for the DIEP flap but due to cost and travel I'm unable to have this operation. My question is, has anyone had just the Trans Flap for a double reconstruction? I'm really concerned because of…
I've got my arm back!!!!! Dancing!!!!
The cast came off today, I'm a bit sore, but started exercises to get the arm back...wow! in only a 10-day period, I lost strength!!! But, it's VERY cold here again... -3 celcius (26.6F) was the HIGH today!! There was snow on Saturday night. It sent this southern California gal scrambling for the longjohns!!!! I am also on…
Interview With A Manager...
There was a job opening in the country's most prestigious law firm and it finally comes down to Robert and Paul. Both graduated magna c u m laude from law school. Both come from good families. Both are equally attractive and well spoken. It's up to the senior partner to choose one, so he takes each candidate aside and…
clueless after first chemo
Hello everyone, I had my first chemo on friday and would you believe it, my doctor didn't tell me anything. It worries me that he didn't think it was necessary. I was out today in a big crowd living it up (no hand sanitizer in sight). I am feeling nauseous and have a buzzing headache but other than that I felt fine. He…
stage iv breast cancer: life options/insurance/financial
my wife just complete right breast cancer last year, diagnosed 2008. left breast diag new in dec 2009, stage iv due to nodes/thorax enlargement - no other organs, but bone scan not positive or neg. yet. we live in houston, and luckily, maybe, she is at md anderson. note: md did not find the new cancer, she started feeling…
Expander questions
I have a question for all of you ladies who have had expanders. My original mastectomies were in may 2009 and due to surgical complications, I had to have the right expander removed. I finished chemo in october and just had the right expander replaced on the 4th of january. My right breast area is pretty scarred. My left…
decadron--need help!!!
I start chemo tomorrow & I'm trying to make sure I have everything in order. I have a prescription for Decadron, but I don't know when I am supposed to take it. I called the pharmacy who filled it this wk & she said she couldn't read my doctors writting. So now it is Sunday night & I don't know what to do...please help if…
8 weeks done with chemo and all my eyelashes are now falling out
Has anyone else had this happen...it's so discouraging, my hair is coming back in now my lashes fall out?
So Life goes on
I finished my Chemo December 24th. I never missed a beat of work except while recovering from surgery. I'm working 50+ hours a week and I think of it as just a job. I see life differently but really don't know how to go on this new path post chemo, post cancer, in remission mode. I mean how can I make what happened to me…
joint and muscle problems from 3 years of femara
I took femara for 3 years after 5 years of convention treatment with tamaxofin. I had early stage breast cancer with a lumpectomy and radiation in Dec. of 1991. From the time I started femara I had problems but didn't relate it to the drug. Now, five years later I am almost crippled and don't know if it was from femara. I…
Seafood Chowder is on
Seafood chowder or in Maine they say chowda. Made with potatoes, onions, haddock(1 pound), lobster(2 at 1 1/4 pounds), baby clams--no necks, jumbo shrimp(about 25 cut in half). Who's coming up to the chilly state of Maine. Be careful though-we are going to get an ice storm tonight with winds up to 60 mph. Love to have all…
Hi, I'm new CSN
Hi, I'm new to csn. I have already went through chemo and radiation, and just started Femara, 6 days ago. And will have reconstruction on 3/15/10 and terrified. My procedure is bilat. Latissimus dorsi muscle flap procedure. Have any of you gals had this procedure done. My cancer is stage 3, grade 3 er/pr+ Neu-. I had…
Feeling oh so unattractive
Just need to vent a little. Last night my husband and i went to his co worker's retirement party at a bar. My husband told me it will be all (older)bikers so just dress casual...I had on a big oversized striped shirt and jeans with black boots and wore my leather jacket. Well all the women there had on black tops, most of…
which tumor markers to ask for?
Right now all anyone is doing, tumor marker wise is ER, PR, Her2.neu. I have found out about Oncotype DX and plan to ask for that since I am Er positive and so far as I know stage 1 based on size (don't know node status yet as surgery is Friday) On this board I have also notice people posting p53 and K167 status. So what…
post latissimus dorsi flap arm/shoulder/back problems?
In 2003 had a left mastectomy with free tram flap (was stupid not to have bilateral in retrospect). Now I have a new cancer (IDC) in my right breast which was, fortunately caught early (showed up on breast MRI but NOT the mammogram, and on the ultra sound once they knew where to look). So I am thinking about the latissimus…
How to get help, if you don't have health insurance?
In November 30th. I fund a lump in my left breast. I went to my doctor, on January 07th. She send me to get mammogram. I did on the same just walking to Imagine Place. They knew I was self pay. They gave me a discount.1/2-right there and the rest on payments. I don't have Health Insurance. I don't qualify for Medicaid. I…
Facial hair
I've never had this problem before, but now that I'm on Tamoxifen and have no estrogen, hair (peach fuzz) is all over my face! I look like a wooly booly! If anyone has had this issue, how do you take care of it? Thanks!
I'm new
I'm not even sure what to post, but I know I need some support from people who know what I'm going through. I am 42, and was diagnosed Dec 3rd, 2009. Stage 1, and had a double mastectomy (prophylactic on the right) on Dec 11. Chemo starts Feb 3rd. I am a high anxiety person, and have been doing ok, but this week I have a…
Arimidex therapy
How are you feeling on Arimidex? This stuff is almost as bad as Neulasta. I hurt all over. Sometimes quite severely. Can't live on Motrin.
I'm EXHUASTED!!
I haven't been very active on here and just wanted to see if what I'm feeling is normal. I am on TAC (Taxotere, Adriamycin & Cytoxan). I will have my last of 6 in 2 weeks. I had my 4th on Christmas Eve morning and haven't returned to normal ever since. Usually I was sluggish and tired for the weekend after chemo and then…
Your Fortune Cookie Of The Day
Love is for the lucky and the brave. We are all brave and very lucky to know and feel the love here. Margo
Life Insurance after dx
Does anyone know of an insurance company that offers life insurance to survivors? I was told by a very well know insurance company last week that they would not sell my life insurance till I was 15 years from dx. That is a crock!
New hair question
Ok so my hair is coming in and I was told by a hair dresser to shave my head again right now so my hair will come in even. Did anyone do this or will it even out or what. I don't think I could bring myself to do this again. Kathy
Meeting with doc on Monday
Had my bone scan and pet scan this week and meet with my oncologist on Moday --- all this was due to elevated tumor markers in December. Ya'll wish me luck --- I am a bit anxious!!!! ♥ Libby
Done with RADS
I have officially finished my 33 radiation treatments. I am so very happy. Between working, traveling every day to the treatments, and dealing with the radiation effects (fatigue, pain), there were times when I didn't want to finish. I was tired. RADS are easier than chemo to do by far but my chi-chi is charcoal broiled…
Vent
Last night my husband (who lost his job a week before my mastectomy and his mother 3 weeks before my cancer diagnosis) asked me when I'm going to be healed. I had my mast. & tram flap on 12/11, still not back at work. He is very depressed and told me that he needs me to start taking care of him - huh? He has not done a…

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