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alcohol
Does anyone know when its ok to start drinking after chemotherapy? I know that the drugs are in your system for awhile afterwards and I don't know if alcohol makes the drugs lose their effectiveness.
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Hey everyone!!!
I wanted to see how everyone is doing? I havent heard from some in awhile and I wanted to see how everyone was doing and what is going on. I have my scans tomorrow morning and I am hoping for good results!! I hope everyone will post more. I want to know whats going on!!!! Kristin
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Young adults networking group in Boston
Hello, I wanted to let everyone know about a networking group for the young adult community (including survivors, caregivers, loved ones and friends) in Boston on Thursday, October 21. It is co-sponsored by The SAMFund (www.thesamfund.org) and The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults (www.ulmanfund.org). Please email…
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sleeping probs
Every since I started chemo ( I finished 7 months ago) I can't sleep. I feel really tired but not at night. I do very relaxing activites before bedtime. Is it the steriods? I don't think it is stress and I am very active during the day. Does anyone else have this problem? What do you do about it?
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questions unanswered
HI, I am new to this discussion board,and I had some thoughts maybe some of you could identify with, cause if anybody could it is the people on this page. Just for your info this might end up being a long message, see I got on the comp to work on a speech piece, but got sidetracked. Anyways, I was diagnosed with ALL in…
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Young survivors chat-what do u think?
It appears those that came in for the young survivors chat time enjoyed it and thought it was a wonderful idea. for those that were there I want ideas about what could make it better? as in different time or day or how often you would like to do that. For those that did not come I would like to know what would make u want…
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Attention: young survivors chat sept. 16 at 10pm eastern
to give everyone proper notice what I plan on doing is starting the young survivors chat time on thu. September 16 at 10 pm eastern. I descided to accomidate those that in other time zones if this goes well we can change the time and designate more then one day we can have this chat. so on thu sept. 16th at 10pm eastern in…
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Support Group in Alabama
Fellow survivers here who live in or near Alabama, who would like to start a support group in North Alabama Please email me at krp@hiwaay.net My name is Kevin.
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ATTENTION Young survivors. READ!
well everyone I am hoping we all continue to post her because we need to hear from eachother and hope that they give us what we need on this site.... I am proposing that we start our own chat date and time I want ur responce on this and will hopefully come to a time and say of the week for instance like thu at 9 easternt…
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PLEASE HELP!!!!
Hi, My husband was diagnosed with pertineal cancer July of last year.He is now 25. Since then we have been through chemo after chemo for the last year. He was in remission and now no longer is. We have been to Mayo clinic and were told all they could do for us was to recomend these 2 other chemo and thats it. We have also…
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Funny Stories
My friends and I were recalling my chemo days last night and I have a funny story I thought I would share with you all. After I finished chemo I decided to do some clothes shopping. I got all dressed up and carefully combed out my wig and put it on so I could shop at some of the ritzier stores. I picked out some things and…
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ex abusing 3 yr old who has brain cancer
I need your help. I have a three year old son with brain cancer and a family law judge that has given his abusive father unsupervised visitation with him in the hospital which resulted in the father emotionally the child during visits. The judge has confirmed that the father has engaged in domestic violence and has ordered…
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Placebo Effect
What do you mean it was just a sugar pill! Hey guys, Sometimes I think that all the late night reading I do about cancer just make things worse. Has anyone ever just read about their chemo drugs online and become nauseated? lol I read about how you can have chemo brain for up to ten years and I immediately think that its…
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pregnancy
Just wanted to know how long you have to wait before having a baby? My surgeon said to go ahead but its only been 6 months since i had a modified whipple operation to remove a tumor on the pancreas that went into the lymph nodes?? I had no chemo or radiation but it seems like this might be too soon. Who gives the go…
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Good News Friends
My name is Andrew, and this is my first time on this site. I am a 21 year old survivor. I had ALL at age 4. I have been a pretty big ACS volunteer for a few years now. I want all you guys to know that your voices are being heard. I'm currently working with some ACS National Staff to make the Youth Survivor sections of the…
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ATTENTION Please Read! Thanks!!
I posted on the CSN Administration a topic on the young single cancer survivors and I would appreciate those of you who are interested in that and have voiced an opinion on wanting that topic for a discussion board to please go ahead and go to the CSN Administraion board (the one to discuss the site) and respond to it to…
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Hey everyone
Well as many of you know or dont know by now My name is Kristin and I am a 23 yr old Lung cancer survivor.... 1 yr and 2 months cancer free... I have been havin problems lately just with life. I am trying to finish college and tonight is the last test of my summer classes to which I thank God its almost over. I have 4…
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my two cents!
Hi Gang! First let me say I have recieved a good number of responses to a Discussion Board Topic.."Young Single Survivors".. keep up the good work everyone by posting your comments and sending emails to the the Administrators! Thanks for your support!... Now... I have read many posts from men and women about feeling guilty…
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teen -- childhood cancer survivor
hi, my name is elana, i'm new here.. i was diagnosed w/leukemia when i was 11 and i finished treatment when i was 14. i don't have any other friends really who have had cancer.. it's difficult sometimes to relate to other kids when i've been through something that they are clueless about. i would like talking to any other…
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checkin up on you guys...!
Just so's you know, I haven't forgotten about all the people that stayed up talkin' to me in the wee hours of the morning cause I couldn't sleep due to my meds. Haven't been able to write cause it seems like things just keep happening over here, and I did write once, it was a long one too, but somehow it didn't go through…
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Understanding...
Hi, I'm 35 Single and have a new leash on life. Never have I felt so confident. In contrast, I feel so lonely. As if no one understands me. I've been told by the men that I have dated that I intimidate them by my attitude on life. After all, I live each day to it's fullest and the small things seem not to matter. So why is…
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hi this is sara
i am 23 yrs old ovarian cancer survivor for about 1 1/2 year now had a hard chemo , and i really understand all of you maybe itôs because all ppl here are over 30 that do not quite get us.....i just got back to university and seems like i donôt fitttt hope i can talk to you some time you can add me to ur messenger…
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Breat Cancer at 27
Hi everyone. I just though I would share my road through diagnosis and treatment. I am 27 and was diagnosed with breast cancer Jan 04. I have had a modified radical mastectomy with axillary dissection and chemo. I took 4 AC and now 4 Taxol dose dense (every 2 weeks). I have been able to continue with most of my daily…
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6 month tests
Hi my name is Jennifer and i was diagnosed with an islet cell tumor of the pancreas 6 months after the birth of my daughter. I had a whipple operation to remove the tumor in september 2003 and have had no additional treatment.The pathology report found that it had gone into one of my lymph nodes.And they said at the time…
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I am 22
I am a 22 year old Lung Cancer survivor and need to talk to people my age. I was not sure about this discussion just about everyone posting here is over the age of 30. But I have only found 2 young people I can talk to that are close to my age and in the same point in life as I am. I would like more people my age to talk…
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28 dx with bc want others to talk to
I just wanted to see if there were others who would like to share their experiences - to maybe just feel a little less alone. I was 28 in dec. 2003 and starting my 9th month of pregnancy when they diagnosed with me with breast cancer. I had a bilateral mastectomy in february, finished 4 rounds of dose-dense ac chemo, and i…
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My brother, support please
Hello my brother has had a tumor removed this past Friday, we just got path reports and it came out to be malignant. He really needs someone of his own age to talk to because at this point he is very confused and scared.He is 18yrs old If anyone could talk to him who has gone through this would be a great help in any way.…
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question
hey- i was wondering if anyone knows of any other message boards or websites, etc. for young (teenage/young adult) cancer survivors. this board doesn't seem to be very active. :oS thank you!! <3elana
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New to all of this...
Hello!! I was very happy to see this forum for those of us in the "middle" that are dealing with cancer. I just turned 32 last week and was diagnosed with ALL (leukemia) on 5 Jan 04. I was suppose to get married on Valentine's Day but we put it off because we didn't know if I'd be in the hospital or what was going to…
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Could use some friends
Hi everyone. Hi Jennifer islet (we met at another posting...) I am so glad to finally have a young cancer survivor group. I am 35, and I was 32 was I was diagnosed, and I always felt that support was geared towards older people (50s and up), the majority of whom have cancer. I was diagnosed in August 2002 with a…