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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
Found lump myself, had to wait 3 weeks for a mammogram. Had mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy all in one day. 3 days later was told I have breast cancer and 3 days after that I met with the surgeon and was told I have two different types of breast cancer. It's been a whirlwind of doctors appointments and information. I…
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Other Care | Home care
home care helpful in keeping up with my vitals and draining pleurex catheter. May need to have IV fluids.
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Decision Point | next treatment
nervous that I'm having difficulty with current treatment and afraid of the next possible treatment if available.
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Clinical Trial | TAK-788
Feel sick with vomiting and diarrhea; depressed from not sleeping well. tired.
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Side Effects | Diarrhea
Feel sick with vomiting and diarrhea; depressed from not sleeping well. tired.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
Feeling sick to stomach; vomiting and diarrhea.
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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
scared and panicked
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Stage 4 indolent B cell Non Hodgkins Lymphoma in quarantine since February.
Anyone else? Early in the pandemic we had a scare which turned out to be just my NHL B-symptoms. ANywho I was strongly advised by the 2 Dr's who cared for me, to go home and stay home because of my risk of severe covid-19. My primary care won't even see me or my husband in his/her office. We do a tele-visit once a month. I…
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Celebration | Mastectomy Incision Healed Well/Normal Mammogram
I told you all that I had a normal mammogram last week 11/3/20. I had my appointment with the surgeon yesterday and she said I am now just in "surveillance mode." She also authorized me to start strength training again. I was so relieved. Now I feel like I can finally push myself again.
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Jumping out of my skin with my thyroid
I just had my thyroid removed due to cancer and just started Synthroid. I feel crazy!! anybody have advice with this
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piqray side effects
piqray side effects
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I am no longer homebound!
The wound care specialist has officially released me from care. I'll be wearing a dry dressing for awhile yet. She said probably I should be healed enough to do without it by Thanksgiving. Thought I'd share my good news. I've come a long way since the end of June and that stupid wound vac!
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Radiation | External radiation
I had 25 sessions of radiation end of August through September. Compared to chemotherapy, I tolerated it much better. I was tired a lot, but was able to drive myself to my appointments. The side effects only became a problem after all the sessions ended.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
I had the last two sessions of chemotherapy in July. My Oncologist reduced the dose of Taxol to decrease side effects and that worked well.
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Oh No | Relationship issues
So it's my one year mammogram tomorrow morning I have scanxiety to the point I haven't had any good sleep in awhile. My boss's brother just found out he may have non small cell lung cancer (I don't know all the fancy terms). My boss seems to be getting more and more out of touch every day and I am so worried about him, as…
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Closing In On Year 1 of Diagnosis
Today, I finally had my actual fitting for my post-surgical bra and prosthesis. I found out that my insurance will pay for me to have a custom prosthetic made, so I got scanned and measured for that today. I felt like things are finally moving forward. Next Tuesday is my mammogram and the following Monday a meeting with my…
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Thankful Thursday in Honor of Greg
Hi, everyone. I ran across an old Thankful Thursday post of Greg's. In it he said there is always, always something to be thankful for. Well, I'm still grieving the loss of our dear friend. But, I thought in his honor, how about if we do a Thankful Thursday post? I'm thankful for Greg and all of you. It was a beautiful day…
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Have any of you had side effects that your doctor couldn't get a handle on?
iv had a list of simple to severe that some just haven't been figured out yet. All of us at Whatnext.com are wishing all of you the best!
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Procedure or Surgery | Abdominal hysterectomy
Based on others experience, I think I’m doing quite well after a large, vertical incision. But there is so much that I still can’t do.
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Oh No | Health insurance issue
I lost my job in August and started a temporary insurance plan Sept 1. At the end of Sept I had unexplained pain and ended up in the ER and got my diagnosis. I honestly still don’t know what they will cover in the end. I’m still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Urban fantasy author passed away over the weekend
Rachel Caine was a fairly prolific fantasy author. She ha an aggressive form of soft tissue sarcoma. She went into hospice care in Sept as she had run through all treatment options, including clinical trials. And in Texas, I guess palliative care is only available through hospice. I'd become friendly with her on Twitter.…
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Covid
Has anyone had Covid? We have it as Nd I’m Worried as my husband has prostate cancer and is on xtandi. Just wondering if anyone been here and has any insight
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head wear
where is the best place to shop for head wear
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Decision Point | Hospise or chemo in vein again
Had port put in twice and went throu vein chemo twice and horrible side effects.Been on Ibrance then Xeloda for years but don't work anymore so another port in right side, where cancer was original and had 13 of my lymph glands removed so worried over lymphoma but 2 cancer dr. said it wouldn't affect it so decided to try…
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Celebration | Anniversary
Eight years ago today, I went for that fateful CT scan that showed I had stage IV lung cancer. I remember as clear as day driving to the testing site, not really concerned at all ... certainly not concerned that they might find lung cancer (I thought maybe we would find thyroid cancer since I was having issues with weight…
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Loss | loss of independence and told I will most likely never be able to stand up straight, that it
This is a issue totally unrelated to my recurrent cancer. I had an MRI several months ago and even though I am stage 3 kidney disease, I did what 2 doctors told me to do which was have the contrast dye. This was my 2nd MRI in the last 2 months. My oncologist and pain specialist both had my MRI's and they both said the same…
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
I did 2 weeks of chemo, (pills), and quit. The strongest side effect I had was red hand/red feet. I had the same side effect 19+ years ago when I had pancreatic cancer. If I ever get cancer again I will not do any type of treatment chemo or radiation. Never again!!!
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Have you had your flu shot yet?
Experts believe that mid-September through late October is the ideal time to get your flu shots. My hubby and I will be getting ours next week. What about all of you?
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Lyymphadema of the face.
Apparently. What I have is lymphadema making my face swell up. I haven't had a chance to see the doctor yet and won't for 2 more weeks. I'll ask more questions then. In the meantime, has anyone here had it. How do you go about massaging it to help it drain?
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Afinitor
Anyone with MBC experienced Afinitor with Exemestane? I am looking for “what to expect” and “how to manage” side effects.
