So sorry that you are feeling crummy. I had a terrible time with A/C...every side effect in the book and then some. After the second infusion I developed a high fever and couldn't move. Ended up in the ER. Long story...bad ER (NOT the hospital where I was being treated...I am a ferry ride away from my doc and hospital and, of course it was in the middle of the night...Halloween eve...me, bald...looking like sh*%...scared one little girl there half to death! funny now, not at the time!)They sent me home after 4 hours of doing nothing. I went to my reg doctor the next AM and she was horrified that they had done nothing. She put me on heavy duty antibiotics and I skipped my next chemo. I was ready to call the chemo quits after that but did 2 more rounds, each one getting sicker and sicker. Eventually called it quits after 4 rounds...instead of 6. Looking back on it, I think I went into chemo with a slight infection of some sort that just got worse and worse. I am glad that I did the chemo, and have no doubt that I did the right thing by cutting it short. Hope you are feeling better and just know that some day you will look back on all of this and say, "Phew, what a long strange trip it's been...!!!"
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 Suzan W.
age 54 at diagnosis
5/05 suspicious mammogram-left breast
5/05 biopsy-invasive lobular carcinoma with LCIS,8mm tumor,stage 1 grade 2, ER+ PR+ Her2+++
6/14/05 bilateral mastectomy, node neg. all scans neg.
Oncotype DX-high risk
8/05-10/05 4 rounds A/C
10/05 -10/06 1 yr. herceptin
arimidex-5 years
2/14/08 started daily self administered injections..FORTEO for severe osteoporosis
7/28/09 BRCA 1 negative BRCA2 POSITIVE
8/17/09 prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy
10/15/10 last FORTEOinjection
RECLAST infusion(ostoeporosis)
6/14/10 5 year cancerversary!
8/2010-18%increase in bone density!
no further treatments
Oncologist says, "Go do the Happy Dance"
I say,"What a long strange trip its been"
'One day at a time'
6-14-2015. 10 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!
7-16 to 9-16. Extensive (and expensive) dental work done to save teeth. Damage from osteoporosis and chemo and long term bisphosphonate use
6-14-16. 11 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!!
7-20-16 Prolia injection for severe osteoporosis
2 days later, massive hive outbreak. This led to an eventual dx of Chronic Ideopathic Urticaria, an auto-immune disease from HELL.
6-14-17 12 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!!
still suffering from CIU. 4 hospitilizations in the past year
as of today, 10-31-17 in remission from CIU and still, CANCER FREE!!!
6-14-18 13 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!! NED!!
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