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Calm, calm, calm. I posted a reply last week about my "increased uptake" which did not turn out to be anything. My onc put me on a drug to take once a week to strengthen my bones and asked me to work on my calcium intake.
Once all my liver mets were killed and my tumor markers went back to well in the normal range, there was no worry. My doc put me on another "maintenance" drug called Zometa (infused every 3 weeks), which actually takes calcium from my blood stream and pushes it into my bones. My last bone scan in Sept showed no such "uptake" as before, which was after 12 weekly adriamycin and 4 doses of taxotere.
You are currently on a very good regimen (same that helped me with mets, except I also had navelbine) and if there IS anything in your bones it is being attacked by the chemo and herceptin as you sit there!! Hold that thought!
Try to work on getting more calcium with vitamin D in the correct proportion and this WILL help. We all need to be aware that our bones are at increased risk after taking chemo.
Nervewracking to wait so long - but use your intuition and do your "inner" work.
We are here any time.
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