[Brenda_D]

I understand. It's been almost a year since I found my lump and started this strange journey. I didn't have a mastectomy. I had a lumpectomy.
I also have chest pain, breast pain, aches and pain in other areas (back, hip joints, thigh bones). I am also suffering from fatigue. I was better for awhile after I finished rads, but the fatigue seemed to have worsened in the last month and a half.
I'm on Prozac, gabapentin, Ativan, and Vicoden. They help me sleep, and get through the day. I don't obsess too much about my dx, even though it's not great. I can't let BC take the rest of my life away from me.
But, I do check a few BC sites on a daily basis. I don't always post, but I do browse the posts.
There have been a few times when I had to get totally away from all things BC, to remind myself not to let BC overtake my life.
The meds have helped me to adjust to living with BC and not obsess so much about dying from it.