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Old 03-21-2013, 11:07 AM   #1
linn65
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Hot/Cold Flash - Tamox vs Herceptin

I was just wondering about hot flashes! This is my 2nd month on Tamox, and I just had my last Herceptin last Wednesday 3/13.

Today, I have had 4 hot flashs and then 2 times have gotten goose bumps all in a time frame of 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 6.5 hours!!

I keep thinking man my body temperature is really screwed up. Saturday after Herceptin on Wednesday I did sweat buckets most of the day and then would chill with achy joints. Now, it is better, but I think will this Tamox level out in the next few months where I want have hot/cold flashes or is it still the Herceptin.

I wondered what others experiences with it.
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IDC breast cancer
7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions
7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2
9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant

9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo.

12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj.
Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow.

12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes
Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9
Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma
Areas of angiolymphatic are identified
Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep
Margin of excision
Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic
Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes.
Size of largest node 1.5 cm
Extracapsular
ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+

2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished

2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years.

8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks.

BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative

August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast.
February 2014 Nip & Tuck
March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port.
August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV
August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in.

3/18/15 stopped arimidex.
3/18/15 progression....Tdm1
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