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This time a brain surgeon...
As most of you know I had an MRI for my brain & thoracic back. I have been having serious upper back pain and a major headache for close to two months now. Thoracic MRI just shows my scoliosis...nothing else that concerns my onc. (Sure wish I knew WHY my upper back is hurting so bad then?) But at least that MRI was CLEAN. 
With my 1st baseline brain MRI till this current one...they all keep showing some type of cyst. In fact it says: Mild periventricular white matter ischemic changes. Cystic area within the region of the pineal gland, probably represents a pineal cyst, unchanged from the prior examination.
I told my onc this has been the worse on-going headache I have ever had...it does not let up. So she wants me to see a brain surgeon. (Great, yet another doctor.) At least this *pineal cyst* has stayed *unchanged* in the last yr & 8 months. They have me set to see him Oct. 10th. I hope he can do something to get rid of this headache...I know I've tried everything. (Going to *all* these doctors is enough to give anyone a permanent headache.) lol So basically my MRI's are clean the way I look at it.
Chelee
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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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