Anita,
As long as I could remember I had a stray long hair on my arm I would pull it and a few months later it would be 3" long again. Anyway, it disappeared like all hair when I started chemo. Just this week I noticed it is back along with some other things I consider "normal" for me. My menustration is returning and the inflammation in my joints is gone and I have been off Enbrel for 4 weeks.
What I did notice before my diagnosis was everything else in my body was working quickly, hair needed cutting by 3 weeks, weight started falling off. I was under alot of stress so it could have been that or the her2 gene misfiring.
Mar
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Mary
Diagnosed 11/04 @39yrs. young
Stage IIB
2.5 cm, ER/PR- Her+++, grade 3
Partial Mast., 1/3 pos. node
1/05 full node dissection
4 A/C 4 Taxol DD, Herceptin 1 yr.
30X rads.
BRCA Negative
NED
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all -Emily Dickinson
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