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Breast pain~
I don't have a diagnosis yet but could use some advice, input from anyone who has experienced these symptoms! I have been posting on the head and neck due to some issues with blocked nasal passage, pain, headaches,swelling,sore throat ect. See ENT next week. But to put everyone into focus, I have been diagnosed with…
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after 7 yr set free from Radiolgist oncologist
I booked the PINK bus for Tues-for all of those who came along I am doing the HAPPY Dance...i must still see my other medical oncologist but ONE less Dr is great. Denise
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Allergic To Wig
I just finished 3 months of chemo last month, lost all of my hair in the process and was wearing scarves most of the time during chemo and even afterwards. Recently I purchased a synthetic wig from a reputable wig salon in my area. I wore the wig out of the store and it seemed to feel good for ahiele until after two hours…
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not happy with M D Anderson
Ladies, I'm dumping again. As I was creating my last post, to hug or not to hug, I received a call that my MRI biopsy for tomorrow has been cancelled. The radiologist just got back from a week's vacation and reviewed my old films and cancelled it. I had been lobbying for that since one of the 2 spots seen in the MRI has…
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to hug or not to hug, that is the question...
I'm typing this with a little bit of a smile on my face this morning. Do any of you ever get the feeling that people are hugging you differently, as if they want to find out if your breasts are different? I did not grow up in a hugging family but I learned that it is what people seem to do to greet each other. I now…
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4/27 - Pink Bus scheduled for Andi44 -- Mammo/ultrasound
Please come and ride along with me .. supporting our Sister in PINK, Andi44 .. I have gased up the bus, and the coffee is brewing -- I promise to abide by the speed limits, today ... Vicki Sam
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Possible - Contralateral Breast Cancer
Wondering if any of you lovely ladies have had/heard of others having breast cancer in the opposite breast? I had a left breast mastectomy 2 years ago, and a nightmare of surgeries trying to reconstruct that side...Now, I get hit with the possibility of this on my right side...I am scheduled for a mammogram and ultrasound…
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Tamoxifen-any one else find it helped for another ailgment?
While ON Tamoxifen for 5 yrs. MY ulcertive coloits was almost non exsistant- I would love to right to someone to see if any connection. Who would I contact I wonder? The Pharmaciutal comany? Some agency? Since being off theh meds over a yaear my colitis flared up again-cooincidence or is it connected somehow-I am…
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Another round - port a cath is back, I would rather have a cat (New Flower update April 2015)
Hello my dear sisters, I have not posted about myself for sometime and want to update you. Still here smiling and trying hard to get better I have had disappointing PET CT on 3/31. Then liver biopsy My pathology is back and there is no change in cancer status Er+, Pr+, Her2-negative. We also sent samples to the Foundation…
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Pink Bus
I have not seen any reuqests for the pink bus lately. I am going to my Rad. Oncologist on Tuesday AM-if anyone wants to tag along with me-I have to be to work by 12:30-so not stopping for lunch. Annual check up Denise
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Am I crazy?
I am new cance forum. I am just so frustrated. I was diagnosed in 2010 with DCIS triple negative 0 stage cancer, had a lumpectomy followed by chemotherapy and radiation. I chose to keep my breasts because it was a very early diagnosis and I was very healthy and wanted to do all the treatments. 12 months ago I started…
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Kind of Want To Quit
Hi, I'm new to this site. I'm just looking for someone to talk to. I finished my treatments in the fall of last year but I just had my third surgery. I'm just really struggling lately. It doesn't make any sense because while I was going through it all I was fine. Now I'm just a big disaster. I'm tired all the time, I have…
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Kind of technical but need advice - Happened to any of you?
Hi all, I am back on the boards after my dx with DCIS in 2009, lumpectomy and brachytherapy, followed by Tamoxifen for 1.5 years.... because new DCIS was found in the same breast 2 weeks ago. But this is not about the affected breast. My question is about the other, non-affected breast. An MRI last week found something in…
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Concerns AC treatment followed with 12 Taxol TX.
My wife is getting AC followed by 12 Taxol treatments for breast cancer. I'm a veterinarian that does chemotherapy and know some of thge drugs. Has anybody gone throough 4 AC treatments over 8 weeks then weekly Taxol for 12 weeks. She only wieghs 125# and I'm concerned about severe side effects. Is this doable?
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Caveat Emptor: Treatment duration for for HER2+ patients
Hello Members: Hope everyone's journey towards recovering are getting better and better...as for myself, I shall be starting chemotherapy in a week's time, and has chosen to go with the Pharmac recommended 9 weeks concurrent taxane chemo + herception regimen (pre-anthracycline) because it has been proven to be effective,…
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Should I be worried?
I am 21 months post treatment for Stage I breast cancer, estrogen positive tumor. My breast itched a lot before I was diagnosed. After the tumor was removed (I had a lumpectomy), the itching went away. It has started itching again and I'm not due for a mammogram until November. I can't feel anything. Should I be worried…
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unfair unfair unfair
It’s 2:30 AM and I can’t sleep. Apparently the surgeon didn’t get all the DCIS 6 years ago and what remained has grown large enough to find this year. The radiation didn’t get it, the Tamoxifen didn’t stop it. I can’t have another lumpectomy because of the brachytherapy so it’s a mastectomy for me. Bilateral in fact since…
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**** IS ? Radiation is now called Radiotherapy ?
Anybody know when they changed "Radiation" to the word "Radiotherapy" ? I've just noticed it and was just wondering how long I have been behind the times.
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Spring Alphabet Game
A - Apple blossoms (The object is to go through the alphabet with a word or 2 that are Spring related - started with A so next will do 'B' and then on to 'C' and so on)
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uplifting words -cheerful words (see if we can keep it going)
The great smells of spring (fresh cut grass) and birds chirpping
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O.T. Any plans for Memorial Weekend?
WE start out our summer/spring camping-we take all the grankids- Denise
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i know everyone please becareful before radiation treatment
It has now left me with damage from the treatment .the doctors can not to anything for the damage . i cant walk now with out getting winded no fun .
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OT - 'Foster Grandparents'
I saw a flyer up somewhere for 'Foster Grandparents' and called - I have time I could donate. When I got the information from them, it seemed a bit 'demanding' for lack of a better word and wanting a bit more than I feel comfortable giving out on medical. I do realize that if you are going to volunteer you do need to make…
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Microcalifications
Is anyone on this board familiar with microcalicifiactions? In 2007 I had them in my left breast, had biopsy and they were DCIS stage 0, had lumpectomy but no radiation. In 2010, I again had suspicious microcalifications (again in left breast), had another biopsy, this time they were benign. In 2011, again had to have a…
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Diabetes and Chemo
Hello everyone, I have a question that not even my Oncologist can answer or just says no my aches and pains are not from Chemo. I am a diabetic have been for around 10 yrs. My last day of Chemo was October 24, 2013, I was given, Cytoxan and Taxotere along with Neulasta injections. Its been 1-1/2 yrs now and I am going…
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ANY HER2+ members who's GOT CLEAR MARGINS & NEGATIVE SENTINEL NODE who has chosen NOT to undergo che
Hello Members: Am wondering if there's anyone out there who got clear, clear margins** of at least 4mm - 15 mm away from invasive carcinoma (tumor) and who also got negative sentinel node and who has chosen NOT to undergo chemotherapy, and accepted radiation therapy or vice vera, i.e. accepted chemotherapy but rejected…
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5 Years
Hello to All, I haven't posted in a very long time; I do check in every once in awhile. I am sorry to see that some of the warriors that were on the site the last time I checked in are no longer with us. Cypress Cynthia was an inspiration. I looked for her name when I logged on and found that she has passed. I was…
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Mammo
? I had mammo dr wants mri on breast i had lumpectomy n cancer x10 yrs ago shows skin thickening n markings anyone no anything about this
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If it's not one thing it's another!
ER visit, admitted and gallbladder removed the next day! 5 stones. 2 of which were over 1/2". Dr said I have a high tolerance pain level! Comes w the territory! It's gone and I feel so much better! But I have to wonder, yet another casualty of my cancer?
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*OT // Heading on a Cruise to the Mexican Rivera 4/11/15
I will be off line for 8 days - but will be holding you all close in my heart, and in my prayers. September 2014 - Hurricane Odell hit Cabo San Lucas .. My husband, myself and our friends got stuck in Cabo for 5 days with no food or water -looting and so on. .. made it back to the United States after 18 hours in line at…