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Old 09-22-2009, 05:02 PM   #9
Jackie07
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Re: Herceptin - Bladder and/or sleep changes?

Karen,

I wrote a detailed reply - but it vanished (timed-out) after my husband had interrupted me several times. He's trying to find out where a Bible verse came from (I Corinthians 13:11.)

So here I try again.

I had bladder control problems since I was little. When I became a 'woman', I always had bad cramps, bad pimples, and very underweight. When I was 29, while my health was quite bad, I found a book talking about how many of the 'sleeping problems' are related to painful periods. It stated that most women with the problem had a history of bed wetting in their childhood.

Finally when I was 30, we found out I had had a life-long brain tumor which explained why I quit 'high jump' after 10 grade and why I often had pressure in the back of my head when I did the 'jump shot' playing basketball. It explained why I couldn't stay alert during class and why I did most of my studies lying in bed.

That was 1990. I started to sleep like a baby; I gained weight (18 lbs); my facial skin became smooth; I no longer had athlete foot...

Since then, I've had another brain tumor surgery (Gamma-knife in 2001) and two breast cancer episodes. I experienced the same problems every time - way before my doctors could figure out what's going on because they alway like to believe that I was stressed out, that I needed to take antidepressant, that things are just 'in my head'...

They are the experts, we can't argue with them - especially when my case is one out of a million... It's all in our genes - coupled with bad environmental factors.

Everything could also be explained by our experiencing the menopausal symptoms... But one can't be too careful.
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