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Re: Re-Visit Hot Flashes
i had chemo-pause induced hot flashes and night sweats totally under control with neurontin. i was just about totally free of them. then i started tamoxifen and WHAM, the related hot flashes overcame my neurontin barrier. so i take more neurontin. i began to think maybe it's not doing anything to help anymore, but my mind changed when i was out in utah a couple weeks ago and i forgot the neurontin at home. hot flashes doubled in intensity so i called my doc and had him fax an order to the zion pharmacy. phew... relief. the univ of rochester study said 2400 mgs of neurontin is the equivalent against hot flashes to hormone therapy. i don't take that much, maybe if i did i would not have any hot flashes at all. just seems like so much, especially when i have other meds i have to take. v
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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!
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