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Breast Cancer

Greatly Humbled
Hi Everyone.. Tonight a most remarkable thing happened to me. I go to school two nights a week besides working a full-time job. Usually the last two weeks of the month I work 10-12 hours starting at 3 or 5 am. So on the Tuesdays and Thursday nights that I go I usually get very little sleep and don't eat dinner. Well,…
Your response to my stage IV post
Thanks to all of you for your words of encouragement and I will definitely look for the chat room to reopen and get to "meet" you.
Awaiting Hair Loss
I started my treatment almost two weeks ago and I am wondering how long I have before my hair comes out? Can anyone help me!
GLAD TO BE A PART OF THIS GROUP
I just had to write to say that even though I don't respond to every post, I do read them and feel so proud to be a part of such a great group of women. You are all so supportive. When I was first diagnosed in 2006, I was directed to this site immediately, and it has been a constant help reading the posts. When you come to…
Thank You.
I just wanted to thank everyone for words of encourgement on the site. I feel like I have so much to work out in such a short time. I will have my bilateral mastectomy in two weeks, I have not worked out the child care, sleeping arangements in my home so my husband can get a good night sleep, he has to work, My mom will…
bilateral mastectomy
Hi...just wondering what those of you who have had a bilateral mastectomy wear now? Do they make a prosthesis that is lightweight? I got the staples out today...and now i have seroma..they drained it today and will again next week...sometimes all this treatment gets you down..I'm just looking forward to getting on with my…
problems with plastic surgeon/updated
To everyone who wrote me about the problems with my plastic surgeon (recap: I had my surgery on Feb. 21 and my plastic surgeon has not seen or talked to me since that day: his Physician's Assistant is seeing me). I wanted to tell everyone what happened: I called the office and was very confrontative: I said that I had…
Quick update on recurrence w DCIS
Saw the surgeon yesterday. He looked at the mammo and the MRI film and he feels that there may be a place deeper in as well as the calcifications. He can see that the calcifications could be attributible to the fat necrosis of my mastectomy scar but he also did my bilat mastectomy and knows my history. So, he sent my film…
RE: Hair loss
I wanted to once again share this e-mail I received when I was losing my hair...it is so neat, and I thought it better to start a new page to insure that all of you read it. Attitude There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. Well,"she said, "I…
Cycles....
As most of you know, this past 4 years have been a big challenge for my sanity. Diagnosed with 2 separate cancers, 6 months apart, the death of my beau's father, the sudden death of my ex (62.5 years...), and the tragic death of my youngest daughter, well...it has been hard. But I see lives (mine, and others) go thru…
problems with plastic surgeon/please advise
I am desperate and don't know what to do: somebody please give some advice! I had a mastectomy and lattissimus dorsi flap reconstruction on Feb. 21. My plastic surgeon technically did an excellent job with the reconstruction, but I am having big problems with his office. When I went to see him initially, he told me he…
Today I am 50
Thank you for letting me have this part of my life, this experience, this transition to something I had no idea would let me realize the parts of my life I was overlooking. I may be in debt (up to my eyeballs and then some), out of work and still recovering from the second of two occurances some two plus years later. But…
Goose Creek, SC
Would like to find anybody in the area to talk about hospitals, Doctors, Support, and dealing with treatment of Breast Cancer in our area
started chemo
Hi I started my chemo last Thursday. I was so scared by the whole mess of it. I had a bad reaction to one of the meds. think it was the TAXOTERE they had to stop it for awhile. They gave me normal saline for abit before startin it again. It now feels hot all over my neck and legs all the time. told me to watch for fevers.…
What kind of person are we?
As I read and write posts on this fabulous discussion board, I sometimes wonder - what type of people use this resource? For instance, in the discussion of how to move on after cancer, are all those who have moved on, without a backwards glance not even coming here to tell us that? Are we a self selected, self defined…
Dizzy gal
Hello Everyone. I have had breast cancer 3 times over the past 11 years. I have had a fair amount of chemo and was wondering how many if any of you have had long lasting equalibrium problems after your chemo was over. I have always been a bit sensitive to motion but now it is just silly how much motion gets to me. Since my…
Nutrition during chemo
I have read and been told so many conflicting things regarding nurtrition during chemo. For ex. I was told by the chemo nurse not to eat lettuce or strawberries. To be cautious with raw vegetables and fruits. On the web they encourage fruits and vegetables. Please give some info. on what to eat during chemo. I started…
need support
30 y.o. and a few years post treatment. Ten surgeries, chemo, rads. Going through a major depression because I cant find work and I feel like cancer destroyed my ability to lead a progressive life. I coped so well during treatment but the aftermath has proved horrific. Any survivor willing to talk on phone or via chat?
Friends and Mortality
I have found when trying to discuss with my friends how life has changed, how faced with our mortality, how there is no cure and that this beast can raise it's ugly head at any point in time, I frequently get the response that "they also could be hit by a bus tomorrow". They seem to think it's the same thing. Yes, we all…
Cheer
I wonder sometimes about the newly diagnosed or new to the site people who stop by and read a few of the posts. Of course we write when we are troubled (and I sure have!). Today I want to write that I am not troubled. Probably because my hair has just started to grow in. Yes, you need to look in the magnifying mirror to…
fluid build up after mastectomy
I had a mastectomy on Feb. 21 with reconstruction (lat flap). My plastic surgeon (or rather, his Physicians' Assistant) told me I have developed a common complication of mastectomy called a seroma (fluid build-up). My drains were taken out and the P.A. said they could not be left in any longer because it could cause…
They just don't get it
This is in response to the Friends and Mortality question, really, but my take is a bit different from the ones I read, so I thought I would state my thoughts separately. First, some brief history: My Sister was diagnosed with BC in 1998 at the age of 40, did treatment, surgery, recurrence, repeat, and died in 2006. I was…
shingles....ouch!
I have read so many positive things at this site, but I for one am feeling very discouraged today. It seems like since I had chemo, I have to fight one infection after the other. I try to stay upbeat, but after having what seems like at least 2-3 sinus, throat, and ear infections every year since chemo, it makes me feel…
RE: Friends and Mortality
I have just the thing for all of us who share the problem of friends who shy away from talking about C and who ask "how are you?" never really wanting to know the truth. Next time you are in a Hallmark shop, go to the section with the talking cards. There is a card featuring Gilda Radner's picture on a TV screen and she's…
Sad about Chat
I know they are working so hard to get the problem with the chat rooms fixed but I will miss my sisters tonight. I was needing a little help up the roller coaster since in the morning I go to the oncologist. It is my one year mark and 6 months 8 months since chemo. What questions do I ask? I keep hearing where the cancer…
reoccurence fear
How do you cope with the fear of the cancer returning? There seems to be lots of conflicting info. My doctors have told me that after my bilateral mastectomy, it's like only 1-2 percent likely, but research at the National Cancer Institute puts it more like 10-20 percent. My doctors told me it would come back as a lump…
new to cancer
Hi. I'm newly diagnosis with breast cancer in Jan 15.I found a lump on my right breast in November. I had a mommo right before Thanksgiving.I had my biopsy that showed I had Breast cancer. February 20 I had surgery a Right Segmental Mastectomy and Sentinel Node Biopsy. I cut my long hair after 2 days of crying. March 13 I…
Navelbine
Has anyone been treated with Navelbine? I am having so much trouble with it hurting my bones.
update on DCIS recurrence, etc
Well, the health insurance issue is resolved. Too boring to go into but a company we do not even do business with sent the cancelation letter. I am writing them a letter. The core needle biop. failed. They could not hold the breast in position to be seen on the screen so that the needle could be guided. The microcals. are…
from femara to arimidex and nothing
Hi everyone. Well it will be 2 years in July, and I am hoping for a great mamo reading in July. Daughter will be married in September and it would be great to have joy in our life. I stopped Femara because of horrid side effects, and let my oncologist talk me into trying Arimidex. Well, I am on day 5 and the pain in my…

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