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kristen
09-22-2005, 01:43 PM
Did anyone have weight loss as there first sign of cancer?
What about a reocurrance?
Even before your tumor markers or scans showed anything?
If it was, where did you met to?
Thank you for your input.

al from Canada
09-22-2005, 01:48 PM
Linda lost a lot of weight but not until she jaundiced from liver mets.

Al

StephN
09-22-2005, 02:12 PM
My weight stayed the same even with the raging liver mets. Then the drugs puffed me up some and this seemed like weight gain, but was just water from some edema.

I have added a few pounds over the 5 years of fighting cancer, but just a pound here and there that are hard to shed!

mamacze
09-22-2005, 07:03 PM
Kristen,
Oh, Other than initial weight loss from worry within a few months of stage 4 dx, I have actually gained weight. my mets are to the lungs and I am NED for about 10 months now...But watch the weight loss; it is difficult to overcome once it starts to spiral...are you struggling now?
Love Kim from CT

Rozebud
09-22-2005, 07:14 PM
Ok girl, you're worrying me....I really think it's just stress and hormone fluctuations, you still have no other symptoms right? Your PET last month was clear, no reason to second guess, right?