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Sherry, I understand how you feel about the pain medication but it is a treatment, just like every other. To keep a problem in check. There is a great deal of emphasis these days on the importance of pain managment to improve healing and quality of life. And it is essential to keep AHEAD of the pain, ward it off before it takes hold, by taking the meds as prescribed. I have also heard that when taken as required, the medicine targets the pain and is not about getting "addicted".
Being in pain is very depressing and demoralizing. Does your treatment facility have someone you can talk with? Mine offers a psychologist and she has been really helpful.
And we are here....
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Bonnie
Post menopause
May 2007 Core biopsy, Rt breast
ER+, Pr-, HER2 +++, Grade 3
Ki-67: 90%
"suspicious area" left breast
Bilateral mastectomy, (NED on left) May 2007
Sentinel Node Neg
Stage 1, DCIS with microinvasion, 3 mm, mostly removed during the biopsy....
Femara (discontinued 7/07) Resumed 10/07
OncoType score 36 (July 07)
Began THC 7/26/07 (d/c taxol and carboplatin 10/07)
Began Herceptin alone 10/07
Finished Herceptin July /08
D/C Femara 4/10 (joint pain/trigger thumb!)
5/10 mistakenly dx with lung cancer. Middle rt lobe removed!
Aromasin started 5/10
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