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Chelee · 12-02-2006, 06:20 PM

Hopeful, I'm sorry to hear you had to deal with this too, but I do feel better hearing that someone else had fluid that was blood filled verses just clear as it said it should be. That concerned me a bit...but I do trust my surgeon...so I shouldn't of worried about it. He had a intern at my last appt. so I didn't really get to talk to him. I called and made another appt. with him for this week so that he might have more time to discuss this with me due to the pain if nothing else. Your experience sounds pretty much like mine. Mine is very sore and worse yet if I touch it. Its seems bigger every day.

You brought up something I did not think about which is asprin. Before I had the ultrasound guided biospy I had to *stop* all asprin a week ahead of time. I did resume taking asprin again two weeks *after* it was drained. I hope the asprin isn't causing the problem...or at least adding to it? I was told by onc to take one baby asprin a day for my port. (Plus I sometimes take two ibprofin per day for pain/inflammation.) This is something I will bring up to my surgeon this week. Thanks for mentioning that.

Thanks for letting me know yours got better in time...that is encouraging. Right now it sure feels awful.

Chelee

12-02-2006, 06:20 PM	#5
Chelee Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southern, CA Posts: 2,511	Hopeful, I'm sorry to hear you had to deal with this too, but I do feel better hearing that someone else had fluid that was blood filled verses just clear as it said it should be. That concerned me a bit...but I do trust my surgeon...so I shouldn't of worried about it. He had a intern at my last appt. so I didn't really get to talk to him. I called and made another appt. with him for this week so that he might have more time to discuss this with me due to the pain if nothing else. Your experience sounds pretty much like mine. Mine is very sore and worse yet if I touch it. Its seems bigger every day. You brought up something I did not think about which is asprin. Before I had the ultrasound guided biospy I had to stop all asprin a week ahead of time. I did resume taking asprin again two weeks after it was drained. I hope the asprin isn't causing the problem...or at least adding to it? I was told by onc to take one baby asprin a day for my port. (Plus I sometimes take two ibprofin per day for pain/inflammation.) This is something I will bring up to my surgeon this week. Thanks for mentioning that. Thanks for letting me know yours got better in time...that is encouraging. Right now it sure feels awful. Chelee __________________ DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes. Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs. Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06 Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07 3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07 9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV. 9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa 9-29-09 Power Port Placement 10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head. 11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed 12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa. 3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed. 4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone. 5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy. Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time. 7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.