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Re: nervous nelly
thank you! it's a big relief to hear it's somewhat common and in fact i couldn't take the suspense anymore and called the gyno office. i'm seeing a nurse practitioner tomorrow for a breast exam. the one thing i don't like is she's the same one who told me last year that she thought my lump was a cyst, and since i'm here we all know it wasn't. but i'm guessing she'll be more careful this time (and to her credit she sent me for an ultrasound last year). plus i do have the real gyno doc as a back-up on monday. i'm not usually this skittish, but having my mom die 6 weeks ago of a cancer we didn't even know she had spooked me big-time. i appreciate all your comments and will let you know what they tell me. valerie
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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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