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Re: Weight Gain, No loss - Due to Tamoxifen?
Ha! Looks like it's not just me then. I also packed on 20 lbs with treatment. I do hour long work out classes at work 4x week (spinning, kickboxing, and body sculpting), a long bike ride on most weekends (will do a 50 mile one on Sunday) and eat healthy for the most part. I do not drink alcohol (except for the occasional wine tasting) and my only vice is a can of diet coke and the now more prevalent candy for Halloween. I had a sugar test recently and it was normal at 90.
I trained and completed a century (100 miles) bike ride in Tahoe in June and thought I was going to lose weight with it but it remained the same. I think I'd literally have to be in the gym 2-3 hours a day and eat only raw veggies and drink water to lose weight (not possible with my lifestyle as a working mom of 3).
I have a friend who is healthy (never had any cancer) and who just trained and completed a marathon. She lost no weight during the process. I thought that maybe I could train for a marathon to see if it would help but based on her experience and my attempts to lose the weight, I doubt it.
I've made peace with it for the most part but it is really frustrating to experience this especially when relatively young. My beloved oncologist tells me that I should just focus on living life the best I can and not worry so much about the weight as it will come off eventually when I stop Tamoxifen (at least I hope so!)
If any of you have any weight loss successes to share, please do!
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ER+ (30%)/PR-/HER-2+, stage 3
Diagnosed on 02/18/09 at 38 with a huge 12x10 cm tumor, after a 6 month delay. Told I was too young and had no risk factors. Found swollen node during breastfeeding.
March-August 09: neo-adjuvant chemo, part of a trial at Stanford (4 DD A/C, 4 Taxotere with daily Tykerb), loading dose of Herceptin
08/12/09 - bye bye boobies (bilateral mastectomy)
08/24/09 - path report shows 100 % success in breast tissue (no cancer there, yay!), 98 % success in lymphatic invasion, and even though 11/13 nodes were still positive, > 95 % of the tumor in them was killed. Hoping for the best!
September-October 09: rads with daily Xeloda
02/25/10 - Cholecystectomy
05/27/10 - Bone scan clear
06/14/10 - CT scan clear, ovarian cyst found
07/27/10 - Done with Herceptin!
02/15/11 - MVA-BN HER-2 vaccine trial
03/15/11 - First CA 15-3: 12.7 and normal, yay!
10/01/11 - Bone scan and CT scan clear, fatty liver found
now on Tamoxifen and Aspirin
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