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fauxgypsy · 02-04-2009, 07:18 PM

I have fibromyalgia and I really don't know if the chemo affected it. I know that there were weeks after the carboplatin that I moved like a tired old woman. But it ended and I am fine. My fibromylagia is neither worse nor better. But the cancer appears to be gone. My diagnosis and prognosis are so clouded at this point that for all I know I might not have really needed all the chemo I had. I don't know what to tell you.

02-04-2009, 07:18 PM	#17
fauxgypsy Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Mississippi Posts: 600	I have fibromyalgia and I really don't know if the chemo affected it. I know that there were weeks after the carboplatin that I moved like a tired old woman. But it ended and I am fine. My fibromylagia is neither worse nor better. But the cancer appears to be gone. My diagnosis and prognosis are so clouded at this point that for all I know I might not have really needed all the chemo I had. I don't know what to tell you. __________________ In the world of destiny, there are no statistics. Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3 February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy. March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy, June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative August 7th - Brain MRI-negative August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07 July 2008-Finished Herceptin!