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v-ness · 02-01-2010, 03:42 PM

i've been getting a little patch of shingles on my right boob for about the last 4-5 years. every year, once a year, exact same spot. only about the size of the pad of my forefinger. it came back around christmas and i never bothered mentioning it to my oncologist at the time. jeeze, when i mentioned it 2 weeks ago you'd think from her reaction that i'd forgotten to tell her i had the plague! oopsie.

i have told her for 3 weeks running that i've had a bloody nose. every time i blow my nose the result is a red rorshach test and i did everything you ladies suggested and even keep a humidifier on all night. nothing has helped. so today finally my bloodwork came back with something amiss in my "clotting factor" and they took 7 (!) vials of blood out of me to test. great, i am going to a little backasswards town in utah for a week on wednesday and i got this to worry about? not sure what it could be all about but it would sure be nice to SOMEDAY have a blood-free, pain-free nose. well, maybe i will google "clotting factor" and scare the crap out of myself just for fun now.

valerie

02-01-2010, 03:42 PM	#4
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: SHingles vaccine - anyone get it? i've been getting a little patch of shingles on my right boob for about the last 4-5 years. every year, once a year, exact same spot. only about the size of the pad of my forefinger. it came back around christmas and i never bothered mentioning it to my oncologist at the time. jeeze, when i mentioned it 2 weeks ago you'd think from her reaction that i'd forgotten to tell her i had the plague! oopsie. i have told her for 3 weeks running that i've had a bloody nose. every time i blow my nose the result is a red rorshach test and i did everything you ladies suggested and even keep a humidifier on all night. nothing has helped. so today finally my bloodwork came back with something amiss in my "clotting factor" and they took 7 (!) vials of blood out of me to test. great, i am going to a little backasswards town in utah for a week on wednesday and i got this to worry about? not sure what it could be all about but it would sure be nice to SOMEDAY have a blood-free, pain-free nose. well, maybe i will google "clotting factor" and scare the crap out of myself just for fun now. valerie __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!