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Leg Pain and Numb tingling in feet any suggestion on how to reduce
Okay so I am new here.. I am healing from Stage 2BC .. as I call it .. I am a few weeks into my chemo treatments ..and I get leg pains about 3 days after the infusion .. The pains come and go .. My Doctor gave me pain pills but I hate taking more drugs .. So can anyone list things that they did to help the side effects of…
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Stage 4 update
I havn't been on here in a long time, a lot to deal with. I caught pheumonia over Christmas and had a relapse in the new year, doc's gave me a very poor prognosis (won't make it til Christmas/New year etc.) I am still here tho, but things have changed a lot, I am having some very strange thoughts and hallucinations about…
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Itchy Itchy Itchy
Hi there: I am hoping someone can help me out or send me in the right direction? The underside (palms) of my hands are so itchy! I also seem to develop a sort of itchy rash around 11-12 days after my chemo treatments (T/C) around my neck. Cortizone is not working - help!!! Margz
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Scans after treatment
I'm 42 and just started Tamoxifin a month ago, i'm terrified of the side affects considering it could lead to other cancers. My oncologist told me that for breast cancer there are no "scans" done anymore. He would just see me 2x a year and thats it. I'm a bit concerned about this and want to know what you all think? I have…
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Private Message Spam
Hello everyone, Thank you to all of you who have alerted us to the PM spamming from earlier today. I apologize for the inconvenience. While we do have securities in place, we are not always able to catch all spam, and we are trying to figure out how this one got around our system. If you received a message from jegac1…
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The Truth About Cancer... a Global Quest
Starting tonight.... an amazing series... "The Truth About Cancer... a Global Quest" Episode 1... "The True History of Chemotherapy and the Pharmaceutical Monopoly" https://go2.thetruthaboutcancer.com/agq-encore/episode-1/?utm_campaign=agq-2017-01&utm_medium=email&utm_source=maropost&utm_content=2017-01-17-2356# Anyone…
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Weight loss caused by tamoxifen???
Hello Ladies, My husband finished his chemo in late August and radation in mid October in 2016. He has been on tamoxifen since the comlpetion of radiation. He has been doing well and feeling good except occasional sleep trouble. He has been exercising ever since he started his chemo. He started working recently. He lost…
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I now have a name for why I got breast cancer: PALB2
I've mentioned here before that breast cancer is pretty prevalent on my father's side of the family: Both of my father's sisters are breast cancer survivors, as well as 2 cousins and even a great-grandfather. We've all tested negative for the BRCA1 and 2 mutations. Last year, my family was asked to participate in a…
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Divorce after breast cancer
Way back in 1990, I married my love. I was 22, he was 27. We had a comfortable life and have 2 beautiful children (now 16 and 19). In 2010, I had stage 2 breast cancer, lumpectomy, reexcision 2 wks later, 6 rounds of chemo, 33 radiation treatments, followed by surgery to have ovaries removed (I'm BRCA positive). This…
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Immunity boosting?
I finished radiation in October. Ever since then, I feel like I fall to every single cold, stomach bug, etc. that goes around. And I have a much longer recovery time than others. Is this normal post radiation? How long does it last? Has anyone found anything to boost immunity? Thanks!!
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Mets to hip bone and new drugs j
Jan 30, 2017 - 6:39 am I have anal, colorectal sigmoid/rectum, breast and non Hodgkins Lymphoma. I have done chemo/ radiation and am still doing it but I was in the hospital last week and my left hips was popping and hurt did a PET and bone scan. My hip has bone cancer . I had surgery. I still have a temporary ileostomy…
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My cancer has spread!
I had scans September 6th and my CT showed no cancer in lungs or liver, body can showdown Osteo Blastic Tumors, that were growing. I had a brain scan on September 27th, along with chest x-rays. I had radiation for the spread of the cancer to my brain, and this was telling follow up. There was no change 10 rounds of…
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Newly diagnosed and scared
Good afternoon. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my left breast on April 1st of this year. I have had a double mastectomy with no reconstruction and some lympth node removal on May 4th. I just had chemo port put in on May 16. I am 45 years old and very scared. I see my Oncologist on the 31st to determine my treatment.…
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Bone Metastasis from breast cancer
I am desperate for answers, confort and peach of mine. In 2009 I had breast cancer which was caught early and I had a lumpectomy and radiation and all seem to be well. Well for a few months anyway. I was having pain my back and doctor decided to have a pet can done. The cancer had metastisize to my bones and I also had…
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Explaining cancer to young kids.
I have a recurrence of breast cancer diagnosed in August of last year. I was fortunately able to avoid chemo but am about to have surger, not sure how extensive yet. I may lose my entire reconstructed breast. My grandkids range in age from 1-6 and I see them regularly, some daily. How did y'all explain your cancer to the…
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Treecy1106 Love your new haircut
OK. I know it's off topic, but I had to tell you how wonderful you look. This road we travel is rough at best. But you've come out looking like a star. God bless you. Sandy
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To Chemo or Not to Chemo
For anyone out there who's trying to decide, I had an experience that made me glad I did. My MO has had me have a CT scan every 3 mos since last March. There were some nodules in my lungs and she was watching them to see how they would react to the chemo. She said, "if they disappear or get smaller, we can assume it's…
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Recurrence After Mastecomy/Recon DIEP even Possible?
Double Mastectomy couple of years ago. Finished Chemo 1 1/2 years ago. Have lump at top of "cancer breast". But if I don't have any breast tissue, which was replaced with abdomen tissue, could a recurrence even be possible?
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Recurrence with implants ?
i had my exchange surgery in March of this Year. Afterwards it was pretty good. But the last couple months I have had swelling which is thought to be lymphedema but not sure. I hurt in my sternum and around whole outside area around right implant and along under arm area and chest wall. There is a lumpy area also. I have…
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Hershey Pinks 2017
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Claritin
Need some thoughts about Claritin. Does it work....when should you take it? Thanks
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View from Here
yep.....back on the old soapbox again.....I may need to explain why I get upset when people come on these boards talking about how they have cancer and even though there are treatments available, and some have proven to be effective, they decided for whatever reason to just not do any of it. Then name your topic something…
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Just diagnosed in September 2016
I was just diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy that showed 2 types of breast cancer.....ductal and lobular. Unable to get all of the cancer, I am having a mastectomy on January 24. I have spoken to many women who have had reconstruction but I have only found one woman who wears a prothesis. I am 74 and…
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DIEP Flap Reconstruction
Has anyone had DIEP Flap reconstrution? I had BLM in March with expanders in place right now. I will do the final reconstruction this coming Fall. It is so confusing to figure out what to have done. Please if you have had DIEP I need to hear how it went, was it worth the extra incision in the tummy and how was the healing…
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Depressed after surgery
I have read but not posted but I had my surgery after 18 weeks of chemo/radiation. I have breast, anal cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. on Tuesdat I had surgery a left mastectomy and a right lumpectomy and because of my anal cancer I'm having a hard time I just burst out in tears at anything they started giving me a…
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fatigue hell
Hi Im new here. Finished active treatment feb this year. had op, removal of left breast and 19 lymph nodes then 6 rounds of chemo plus 15 rads. Im doing more than i was and getting some sort of routine again. managing own housework and looking after son as a single parent. But the fatigue is crippling at times. Is this…
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Effexor + Arimidex = ?
Hi friends - I just started my arimidex (ER/PR+, HER2-, single mastectomy, oophrectomy) and I am completely depressed and broken, but petrified of anti depressants. I keep telling myself that depression is just a function of the trauma of having breast cancer and being dropped off the menupause cliff with the ovary removal…
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Merry Christmas
wanted to say thank you to my ornament buddy's.The gifts were gorgeous.Thank you so much.Merry Christmas.
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Journal
Who else used a journal through their journey with BC? I got one as a gift and felt silly writing in it-once in awhile I come across it and read it-i forgot much of the stuff i wrote-but it was a good way to vent and get it out. Denise
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9 yrs Jan 2008
2008 Started my ordeal with B/C- all good so far.. IN a few weeks Ill be booking the PINK bus for a road trip for my mammo. 2 lumpetomies (same side)-radation, 5 yrs tamoxifin, total hsterctomy (from med) 2nd lumpetomy Happy to say was for scar tissue from first surgery- i was not sorry i had the surgery-NOT knowing would…