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StephN · 12-04-2006, 12:00 PM

No kidding MJo.
Giving our bodies instructions, especially before going to sleep when we can mostly clear our mind and are not so distracted, is proven to help any number of conditions.
We had a thread here earlier this year about Guided Imagery. Search those two words and you will find it.

Thanks for the MUGA numbers. Yours did go down some after Adria and only came back up a little - maybe not even statistically significant.

Are you being sent to a cardio specialist or having an Echocardiogram to confirm the last MUGA results??

Try to get on a gentle excercise regime to get your heart rate up. I got one of those wrist style heart rate monitors for Christmas last year. It tells me whether I am pushing myself and how much. As I keep it on as I warm down and see how long it take for heart rate to get back to the resting number. A very simple thing to do and was not expensive.

12-04-2006, 12:00 PM	#11
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Yes, talk to your body! No kidding MJo. Giving our bodies instructions, especially before going to sleep when we can mostly clear our mind and are not so distracted, is proven to help any number of conditions. We had a thread here earlier this year about Guided Imagery. Search those two words and you will find it. Thanks for the MUGA numbers. Yours did go down some after Adria and only came back up a little - maybe not even statistically significant. Are you being sent to a cardio specialist or having an Echocardiogram to confirm the last MUGA results?? Try to get on a gentle excercise regime to get your heart rate up. I got one of those wrist style heart rate monitors for Christmas last year. It tells me whether I am pushing myself and how much. As I keep it on as I warm down and see how long it take for heart rate to get back to the resting number. A very simple thing to do and was not expensive. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.