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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Pembrolizumab
Fatigue, pain and swelling in feet and legs but managable
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How common is it to have to get anti-depressants?
I have talked to my doctor about the mood swings and what seems like depression over this diagnosis but I haven't agreed to take them yet. I don't want to start another problem because of this problem. Does anyone have any experience with them?
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Oh No | Cancer has spread/Metastasized
small area on colon, but has spread to lungs
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Low blood sugar...nerve damage. Red hands / ...
Low blood sugar...nerve damage. Red hands / red feet. My hands were red on the inside, and extremely sore to the point where I could hardly pick up a utensil to eat with. The skin on my palms eventually peeled away to make room for new skin. My feet were red, but not nearly as bad as my hands. I had a gross looking big toe…
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Decision Point | Stopping chemo after 5 rounds instead of 6
The chemo was impacting my kidney and was no longer worth the risk
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
I did 5 rounds of gemczar cisplatin. The cisplatin was split between 2 weeks but is harsh on kidneys. Nothing tasted good so fluids was a problem. Always tired.
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diagnosis
its been 8 years since I found the lump in my breast. An out of this world experience. I have had coworkers to pass away from cancer,or their family member to pass away from cancer. pancreatic and liver cancer. new diagnosis of breast cancer for their loved ones. than they come back and say "I didn't realize what you were…
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Question re back pain, rib pain after treatment
Hi, I used to frequent this site when I was under tx in 2015-16, but forgot my username and password etc. Anyways, wanted to ask others that may have gone into mestatic cancer after their breast cancer treatment. I thought the back pain and now rib pain and pelvic pain, might of been due to my night cleaning job that I…
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Clinical Trial | Pemigatinib by Incyte. FIGHT202. It's an FGFR2 inhibitor drug.
This is an FGFR2 inhibitor. If you have bile duct cancer, you should have NGS(next generation sequencing) either through biopsy or a blood test(liquid biopsy) to determine if your tumor has a mutation that is able to be targeted by a specific treatment.
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Side Effects | Depression/Anxiety
I stayed depressed and started hearing voices to shoot my brains out. Literally. It was awful for me. I am still having pain a year later and unable to lose weight due to all the steroids.
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Microwave therapy
Is anyone here having microwave therapy. A lady in my cancer support group is taking microwave therapy with chemotherapy and a kind of directed radiation. It seems this is a very new treatment
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What do you have going on this week? Treatments, scans, surgery, check-up? Nothing?
I have a surgery follow up with my ENT Oncologist/surgeon to see how my stoma is healing, and I can get rid of this feeding tube that's hanging out of my belly. I've started eating on my own and I'm able to swallow so far with no issues so it's time to get that sucker out. It's aggravating having to watch out for it all…
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Evening primrose oil
I have had three surgeries since June of 2017. The initial lumpectomy, then in 2018 removal of a benign cyst and last spring a surgical biopsy that turned into a rather extensive lumpectomy to clean up a large seroma and scar tissue, also benign. As a result of all this messing around I have constant low grade pain in my…
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Procedure or Surgery | Surgery
While putting on a pair of shoes I fractured my back and had to have surgery to repair two vertebrae.
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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
Weird thing to say but I was told it is called by HPV virus which I did not have and was relieved but I felt like I was eaten up with cancer, all my muscles hurt
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Immunotherapy -- BCG treatment
This was not too painful, but it was very difficult to hold in pee for some time afterward. I still have to make sure that I am aware of where there is a bathroom available! Unfortunately, I developed the bladder disease Interstitial Cystitis after treatment, but do well with it, using natural remedies for pain relief.
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Procedure or Surgery | Surgery
Did the immunotherapy "BCG" treatments after a resection of a massive tumor ("size of a large orange"). All clear as of 2002!
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
Kadcyla every 3 weeks for 15 doses because of residual disease in the pathology report after mastectomy.
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Side Effects | Nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy)
Neuropathy continues to disturb my daily life. My legs are weak and ands and feet hurt at night.
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Radiation | External radiation
Blistering and burning for about 2 weeks out of 6
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Anyone have experience with SIRT Y90?
Going to ask the DR about this, we are looking for options at this point. If anyone has ever had it performed, I would be interested in hearing about it
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Stoma Damange
I am having problems with my stoma every since my surgery. It keeps getting worse. I am going to a wound care center for this, but it seems not to be clearing up. I hurt so bad and don't know if I will ever get this healed. I now go 2 times a week, I feel I need to change my flange every day and do a good cleaning of my…
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Does the worrying and anxiety ever stop?
As more and more time goes by since my diagnosis and the treatments get more and more distant I should be feeling proud of how far I've come. But with that comes the worry and anxiety building more and more too.
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Side Effects | Pain
Caused by a number of things, and/ or stemming from or exaserbated by radiation treatment. Serious 24/7 pain, which I manage well with natural remedies. Until I found something natural that worked, I was talking a woeful cocktail of narcotics that was the only thing that addressed the level of pain I experience I am happy…
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
I received acupuncture every day from a Chinese MD who specialized in cancer, and I believe that it helped me endure the 24-hour chemo pumps and the office infusions with minor to no complications. I was ill, certainly, but considering my rather weak compisition and how ill I was going into this, my counts stayed good most…
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Radiation | External radiation
Due to pre-existing conditions that made the 42- session radiation treatment necessary risky, I suffer from serious PRD (pelvic radiation disease) which has disabled me. I appreciate the UK's PRD Association, as in the USA, few doctors I have interfaced with acknowledge its ravages. As a counselor for children and adults…
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Clinical Trial | letrozole with ibrance for HER2- trial
I was allergic to the ibrance and had to stop taking it
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Celebration | Anniversary
2020 marks 8 years in remission. Our first grandchild is on the way!! Praise God!!! Feeling very good with minimal side effects. Losing some teeth where radiation was focused. GI complications are resolved. Loving life!!!
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Loss | My mind/Sense of Humor
I am still feeling disfigured and lost at times. My job has been great but I am lost.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
It was so bad I could not even complete. Did 4 treatments and had to discontinue. Horrible experience that I do not wish on my worst enemy.
