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Insurance problems!!!
A new year; a new insurance deductible! We changed plans this year and bought a plan with a fairly low out-of-pocket expense since I knew I would be hitting it. I called them today to make sure I didn't need a referral from my primary care physician before I go to my wound care appointment. The customer service rep didn't…
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Neulasta effects
Good morning everyone, I registered my grams with an account her screen name is shirleylenell28, she isn't up to getting on yet, today is day 4 after her second round today and the effects of the neulasta shot and the chemo she is really feeling today. It makes my heart hurt to see her in so much pain, but she is one tough…
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External Radiation Procedure
I don't know if this has been addressed in a previous thread, if so, I apologize in advance for asking. In March I will begin 25 rounds of external radiation. For those who have done this, are you naked or covered? A friend of a friend told me you're buck naked lying on the table in the custom cast made so you don't move.…
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Vision problems?
Hello Everyone, I'm new here... was dx in Sept 2015 w grade 2 stage 3c endometriod adenocarcinoma. I had a radical hysterectomy, along w 23 affected lymph nodes removed. Started chemo 3 weeks after surgery and completed infusion #4 (out of 6) of carboplatin/paclitaxel two weeks ago. My tumor marker has dropped from 60…
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My hair is growing back while on chemo?
OK, with this head rash infection, I admit I'm watching my head more than before, but when I run my hands over it, it feels like more hair! I also got my magnifying mirror out (chemo has changed my vision too) and I can see in the light lots of white hair, short like it was when I had it shaved, but it's new, not the old…
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NED from Stage IV metastatic endometrial cancer
Hi, This is my first posting to this site. After reading many of the entries on this site, I felt I had to join. August 2014 - experienced post-menopausal bleeding - had ultrasound- endometrial lining was .8-.9cm-double what it should be(normal is .4cm) Sept 2014 - endometrial biopsy was not totally conclusive but…
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Good morning
Good morning everyone, I myself am not a cancer survivor, my grandmother, she is more like my mother she raised me is currently battling this terrible disease, she is 87 years young but you would never know it she was still working up till last year, and she is pretty smartphone and computer savy. She will be 88 later this…
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Chemo # 28
Chemo #28 done. Extremely tired, but doing Ok so far. Yesterday labs, Dr. Visit and taxol. Hemoglobin still low, anemia, platelets lower that the cutoff for treatment by 7. We decided to go ahead with treatment anyhow. CA 125 was up by 30. I will have another Ct scan after the next round. Today was the Carbo treatment We…
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Completely off topic!
My dauhter ave me an Amazon Gift for my birthday a few days ago. I want to get a Ninja of some kind. We older ones had this talk a few years ago as to which one is best, but I forgot! I would like something that makes at least two drinks(green smoothies)at a time, but have VERY limited counter space. Any suggestions? I…
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Have to wait two weeks to get into Wound Care
I called my GP this morning to ask her to refer me to Wound Care for my port site. Her nurse called back and asked me to call my oncologist first to see if they wanted to refer me. So....I called them and told them truthfully that I had lost confidence in their ability to fix this thing since they tried twice while the…
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Different Kind of Check in!
Ok ladies, I have been searching for several members here and other boards lately. Different people have mentioned others that I had over-looked. Karen, Kathy, and Kelly over at the Ovarian board have thought having a check in for EVERYONE! Not a staging thing or dx, ect., just an "I'm here" thing. And besides yourself,…
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Article: F.D.A. Regulator, Widowed by Cancer, Helps Speed Drug Approval
Important and interesting article. Too bad that his wife had to pass for him to understand the urgency. Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/us/politics/fda-regulator-widowed-by-cancer-helps-speed-drug-approval.html?_r=0
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Crawling back up towards the living after chemo 2
I went into chemo two so much better prepared (or so I thought), and it still drug me down into the hole. I kept ahead of the nerve pain until yesterday, took Narco during Saturday night and it must have helped a little because I slept 2 hours at a time. However, yesterday, I didn't want to take another so I tried to…
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San Diego
Hola! Is there anyone here from San Diego, California?
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Almost finished with 6th chemo treatment, mixed results
Hello everyone! In a nutshell, my sister (46 years old) was diagnosed with Stage 1A grade 2 uternine cancer. Had the total hysterectomy, followed by around 3 internal radiation treatments as a precaution only. no nodes were involved or and wash was negative. 4 months later horrible pains brought her to ER and a CTscan…