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Joy · 04-22-2007, 09:03 AM

I'll be so curious to see what approaches seem to work well and how that affects women's disease course.

I have had depression all of my life and cancer definitely amped it up. I've taken effexor for 7 years and am actually thinking about bumping up the dosage. It is just so hard when you are in constant cancer treatment to know what is my old depression, my situational depression, chemo induced fatigue and depression. With so many variable and chemicals I think it is a very tricky thing to navigate and remediate.

04-22-2007, 09:03 AM	#4
Joy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ft. Collins, Colorado Posts: 546	this is good I'll be so curious to see what approaches seem to work well and how that affects women's disease course. I have had depression all of my life and cancer definitely amped it up. I've taken effexor for 7 years and am actually thinking about bumping up the dosage. It is just so hard when you are in constant cancer treatment to know what is my old depression, my situational depression, chemo induced fatigue and depression. With so many variable and chemicals I think it is a very tricky thing to navigate and remediate. __________________ with love and gratitude, joy dx stage I 2/2000er/pr+; her- per IHClumpectomy4 rounds A/C30 radstamoxifendx stage 4 5/2002huge mets to livertiny mets to lungsstopped tamoxifen5/02 taxotere/xeloda*her 2 checked with FiSH-her2+++herceptin 2/03 stopped chemo femara w/herceptinzolodex04 switched to aromasin w/herceptin05 high estrogen tx11/05taxol/carbo7/06 stopped chemo; megace/herceptin*9/06navelbine/herceptin5/07tykerb/xeloda great response4/08 progression in liver; ooph/ faslodex /herceptin 6/08 began Herceptin DM-1 9/08 progression