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sudden anxiety attack
Hello to all of you wonderful and brave
I have never opened a new thread only answered some. I was dx. jan. 2002 in l.b. had mastactomy 25 lymphnodes all cancerous. Clear after surgery with er+ and ,,rather modest tumor“, chemo and rad. 25 times and then tamoxifen.
All clear until july 2005. Then dx. with bone mets in ribs left.side. HER++.
CA 15.3 was 260 and CEA 125. Treated 14 times with Navelbine/Zometa till december and then Femara. Tumor markers down; CA 125 and CEA 25. So far so good.
CA went suddenly up in februar CA 235 and CEA still 25. CAT+Pet scan showed progression in bones same place and small spots in liver. My onc said the spots in liver ar so minor that month earlier the scanner would have detected them.
Started Taxotere/Zometa and Herceptin in mid februar. After 4 times the CA was down to 128 and CEA to 11. I was so optimistic (have always been and still am, but...). After five times my CA was 125 and CEA still the same. TOO SLOW and I worry weather the effect is not good enough. But I always want to do things very quickly and this can be normal.
I guess I got down because I wanted things to move fast like in the beginning. Now I think I can feel something in liver, not a pain but picking. It can be something else because I also feel picks in left side, not bones though, because they feel like healed!!!. I will have another CAT april 5.th. and see my onc. on the 6th. The schedule is 6x then two weeks off (Im off now) and again 6x with TAxotere/Herceptin/ Zometa and Herceptin/Zometa for least a year and Femara added then but not while on chemo, acc. to my onc.
Has anyone experienced similir with TM?
Is anyone taking Femara while on chemo?
I read this site every day, sometimes twice a day, both in work and at home.
I eat lot of fish and veg. Take 1 tbls. fish oil (lysi) daily + 2 tabl. calcium. Eat no milk product and only use olve oil in food and veg. oil for cooking. My husband bakes the bread and cookies with spelt-flour and oil and makes almond-spread for bread etc. etc.
I will be 49 next may, have husband and a 8 yo son. I'm a journalist and go to work daily. I seem to tolerate chemo wery well and have not lost my hair because of Taxotere. By the way I wear frozen gloves on while taking Taxotere because it prohibit nail fractures.
I look as good as any women at my age and some are surprised that I am like this and on chemo. The spirit is also great (specially after reading this website) and I know I can fight this, but....I live my daily life like usual and like nothing has changed.
Maybe this picks are just something in my mind but not in body.
Can someone advice?,
Best regards
Jóhanna in Iceland( with frozen gloves)
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