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Chemo Update & Constipation
Received carboplatin on Tues and doing ok so far. Today, day 2, feeling a little more tired today and the constipation seems to be a problem. I took Colace and 2 Senokots this morning and will get Miralax later today but drinking tons of water so hopefully things will get moving soon. Anti-nausea meds work great so I am…
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Bracytherapy preperations
I start brachytherapy in a week from tomarrow. Wondering what i might need around the house to be ready for any after effects. I am hoping i dont have any but i guess just in case. All suggestions wil be helpful. Thank you very much
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Women on Metformin who are not diabetic or pre-diabetic
Is there anyone here who is on metformin who is NOT diabetic or pre-diabetic? It seems that everyone I've read about who is on it has one of those conditions. I know, thanks to TakingControl's research, that it works against cancer in a number of ways that don't seem to be connected with diabetes, and so was curious if…
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Hey y'all...
I am trying to get back to normal, whatever that is. I did have my 6th year clear in Oct. Heart steel beating but they found another birth defect. Leaving that alone for now. The fall did more damage than they thought. I did a CT scan that was ok, but I did have a bad concussion. My speach is somewhat effected. I can see…
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Exercises to help through treatments??
I just wondered if anyone has an exercise routine that helps get strength back while doing chemo and radiation? I walk almost everyday but feel I need to do a little more to get my core strength back. Since my hysterectomy there's been one "blow" after another with port insertion then the start of chemo causing low energy.…
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Advocating for cancer research
If this isn't acceptable - please let me know and I will remove it.... As someone who has both Invasive Ductual Carcinoma (breast cancer Stage II) and USPC (Stage IIIC1) that were diagnosed with 4 months of each other I have been feeling the need to advocate for cancer research in some way. I went to Washington DC last…
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wondering if Hearing loss has been an issue with Carbo
After Chemo #1, experienced long, long list of issues. One was numb (like novacaine wearing off) teeth, achy left ear and throat. I still have a slightly achy ear so I decided to visit an audiologist before next chemo to get a baseline hearing test so I can monitor any problem or progression problem with my hearing. i am…
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Lou Ann, how are you doing?
Lou Ann, I've been thinking about you and wonder how your treatment is going? Love, Eldri
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song about being bald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNaW6FyiJRI&feature=player_embedded# In found this fun uplifting song about being bald. though someone might be interested.
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beccabtown, how are you?
Haven't seen a post from you since you asked about fluid in your abdomen. Hoping you're ok.
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1st Chemo
Yesterday was my first chemo infusion. Port worked great still a little sore from it being put in Monday but it was only painful for a short second when the nurse put the needle in then taking it out. My nurse was amazing. I only received Carboplatin because my dr wanted to get a head start (I call them my little soldiers)…
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Questions about caring for a patient with radiation enteritis
Hey everyone! I'm curious to see if someone out there had any advice for me as a caregiver to my mother who is almost 1 year cancer-free (thank you God) after having stage 3C Endometrial Adenocarcinoma. She had chemo followed by pelvic radiation (28 external, 3 internal, 1 external from side/behind) which wrapped up on New…
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A little something
Well, two little somethings actually. My gyn/onc went over the PET scan with me. There are two "suspicious" areas in two lymph nodes, one para-aortic, the other just above my kidney. Neither of the nodes is enlarged, and the sizes of the suspicious areas are tiny..one is 7mm, the other 5mm. So the question is, what to do…
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Kidneys?
I completed treatment in May (surgery, chemo, brachytherapy) for stage 1A uterine carcinosarcoma (MMMT) and papillary serous (they found both types). Was told I'm in remission (yay!). On both the pre-treatment and post-treatment CAT scans there were what was described as "low-density renal lesions" that couldn't be…
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My Job
So i went and talked to the director of my work today. Good thing i did becauce she was going to be out of the office the next couple of days and she had told me to contact her before the end of the month. The bad news was that the gentleman just under her is the one that works with all the highering and he was not there…
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adenocarcinoma arising from endometriosis (ovary)
hey folks... so I was originally diagnosed with Stage 1A, grade 1, endometrioid adenocaricinoma in 2014. i had a total hysterectomy with right salpingo oopherectomy. in other words, i left my left ovary behind. two years later, there's a large mass on my left ovary. the mass was stuck on my sigmoid colon so they had to…
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1st Examination after surgery and chemo
Hi ladies.... I need some support- I have been trying so hard to get my "brave" on for this 1st exam tomorrow (19th) but I am not sleeping well and today actually shaking and emotional. I am going to share something with you that almost no one knows with the hopes that perhaps I am not alone??? This particular cancer is…
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Another radiation question
Has anyone had abdominal fluid retention after external radiation? I'm having symptoms a little like what I had after surgery.
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Path Report
Path report today, endometrial adenocarcinoma IIIC2 grade 3, the uterus and 2 lymph nodes but everything else including omentum and pelvic wash clean....starting chemo tomorrow but only one chemo drug will be used this first time then on Nov 15 adding Taxol....my dr was very pleased how I am healing after 2 weeks...so no…
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Newbee
Hi Everyone, First of all I would like to thank all of you for sharing such personal experiences, supporting, caring and being sincerely concerned. I have been following the posts about uterine cancer and have found comfort knowing that we don't need to feel alone in our journeys. Thank you! My name is Shari and here is…
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Update on Hip Pain.
Went to PT this morning and the therapist told me she wasn't sure she should tell me what the MRI of my left hip that I had done last Wed. shows but she did anyway. She says the MRI shows a tear in the gleteus medius muscle (muscle on the outside of the hip) where it attaches to the greater thochanter (lateral hip bone)…
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need some motivation
Need some motivation. I was really excited the other day about being done with chemo and really i still am. Today is the day i would have been sick and i am so glad i am not doing that. I am going with a friend today that i havent hung out with much because i wasnt feeling good. I did do one thing with her during chemo…
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OK, now i'm freaking out
Dr office just called to confirm my follow up surgery appt on Monday 10/24 and my chemo starts 10/25. I don't even have my path report yet, starting chemo so soon is giving me the idea that my report is extremely bad!!! Maryanne
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Did not qualify for immunotherapy
I cannot sleep tonight. Today we went to see an oncologist for the upcoming immunotherapy trial for endometrial cancer. Mum did not qualify for it as she is not "fit enough" for a trial. This was my last hope! The chemo does not seem to be working as mum's breathing is getting worse. She cannot even walk now. And to make…
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Dragonfly Parable
Someone posted this on the Inspire Ovarian Board. It kind of captures how I feel about getting this diagnosis, changing because of it and then not having the others in my daily life understand that I am not the same person I was before. Others have said that it represents passing-on from this life for them. I thought some…
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pelvic and Hip Pain
I saw an old thread and wasn't sure if I should make a new one or respond to the old one, so forgive me if I chose wrongly. My cancer reccurrence was discovered in June, but the doc at Mass General in Boston told me that because I was feeling good and doing well, and my scan showed very small cells in 4 lymph nodes it…
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2nd Pathology Report Para-Aortic Lymph Nodes
I am so depressed right now. My mom's pathology report for her second surgery came today. Five para-aortic lymph nodes taken out on the right side, 6 on the left side, for a total fo 11 lymph nodes in all. All 5 lymph nodes on the right show adenocarcinoma metastasis. The 6 on the left came out negative. Her omentum shows…
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good news for me
My kids and i celebreted the end of chemo by going to lunch today. I know i was done three weeks ago but tomarrow would hae been the day i would be going to do chemo if i was still on my cycle and i am totally excited that i dont have to go. As much as i dont want to feel the pain of bracytherapy tommarrow i would much…
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Change in Eyesight
I finally went into the eye doctor last Thursday. During chemo my eyesight was all over the place. I remember the day I had my port removed - I could not even see good enough to sign the consent form. With or without my glasses, everything was a big blur. Then some mornings I would wake up and I could see every leaf on the…
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Has anyone had carboplatin and taxol treatment for uterine carcinosarcoma? Please share with me!
I'am to start carboplatin taxol treatment in three days. Doctor changed plans. I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has had this treatment. Thanks, Glenda