Diabetes and Cancer too!

mtmom said:

Drat!

So sorry to hear about your news. I, too, was just diagnosed with mets...to the liver and lymph nodes. While I'm barely a year out from the breast cancer diagnosis I have had Type 1 diabetes for 32 years. I'm not sure what the Herceptin will do to your blood sugar. But, if you take any type of an IV cortisone that will really mess your sugars up! I just saw my diabetes educator today to begin a game plan for keeping sugars down during treatment. Do you have access to someone like that? Check with your endrocrinologist's office. You will want to be monitoring closely.

Many blessings,

~Mtmom

Yes, I have a diabetes educator and went through classes just after being diagnosed.

I will contact her and see if she can get me ahead of the game before I begin Herceptin.

My mets are in bones and I am not sure what else I will be given along with the Herceptin,

if anything.

But my onco man and my diabetes doctor are in contact about my situation so hopefully

they will work together to help me cope.  It's just a bit scary.

I tend to have hypoglycemia if I am not very careful and can go down hill pretty fast.

If it ain't one thing....

phoenixrising said:

I am so sorry to hear about
I am so sorry to hear about your recurrence and the complications of diabetes. I sincerely hope the Herceptin does it's job. From what I hear the side effects are manageable...a small blessing amidst the crap Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers that all goes well for you and that NED will be asking you for a dance in the near future... xoxoxo

They tell me Herceptin is much less traumatic than chemo.

And Dr PROMISED me no more adriomiacin (sp?).

Hopefully this will target my bone mets without messing up the rest of my body too much. 

Zah

Pixie Dust said:

I am sure you will be closely watched

Zahalene, do not know who you are and I also do not know anything about the questioning about the combination of the 2 that you are asking about but I just wanted to wish you the very best with the herceptin taking care of your bone mets. Good to hear of you being a long time cancer survivor. I am sure they will watch you closely by doing extra labwork with you having diabetes. Praying all goes well with you. ((((( HUGS ))))) Pixie Dust

I used to be on here just about 24/7, especially the chat room.

But for the last few years I have been living as if the 'C' word did not exist for me (as much as possible) and having a 'normal' life was sure nice for awhile.

Now it's back to the drawing board to try get back to NED asap.

Thanks for the good wishes.

Zah

RE said:

:-)

You are the best Zah, I used to love all those chats we all had....those were some good times..we carried each other far in this virtual world!

 

Love ya!

RE

some of the page markers you made and sent to me.

I just couldn't bear to give them all away!

In fact, I hang them on my Christmas tree every year in honor of all my 'sisters in pink'.

(And also because they just look so dern pretty hanging there!) 

Zah

Pixie Dust said:

WOW ---- 22years

Zah, I know how it is not wanting to even think about the "C" word. Do you wonder how many of us here on this website is the same. You surely have something to  be gratefull for being NED for 22yrs. I have heard from alot of people that have bone mets and received good medical treatments with perfectly good results. You need to get back on here 24/7 so you do not have to go through this by yourself with people on here just like you. I like the discussion board and also like the chat room. Get back on chat room and meet new people. You may even meet someone on there that you chatted with years ago. I love the chat room because everybody there is all together chatting with one another giving support, encourangement, laughter and love to one another. I pray you will do wonders with your new treatments and meet NED again soon. I hope to see you more on here on discussion board and especially chat room. I will be waiting on you with others to chat with you soon.  ((((( HUGS )))))   Pixie Dust 

I have been in the chat room a couple of times but my very old, very cranky computer does not do well there.

I am working on updating my Java and some other things to try to get a smooth uninterrupted chat going again.

No way I could go through this again without the support of you guys here.

Just the idea of getting a port for the first time gave me the willies until several of you ladies here calmed my fears about it.

I am scheduled to have it put in on Tuesday.

You'll all be hearing from me, guaranteed, as soon as I get back home.

(((Hugs back)))

Zah