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Re: anything stop eye twitch?
thanks, everyone. jackie, i am seeing an opthamologist tomorrow. i mentioned my recent chemo and the resulting eye watering and twitch in my call, which is how i got a next-day appointment. yay for the chemo card.  i would happily forgo a needle in the eyelid if he has alternatives and i will definitely mention the nerve sheath problems from taxanes. i will look up B6 and i have been taking some magnesium, because i heard that sometimes a shortage of that is the culprit.... but i am starting radiation on monday and i know there are supplements i am supposed to stay away from. i don't even know which, the radiation setup and tattooing appointments were such a whirlwind. i also have worse chemo brain now than when i was on chemo, so i seriously need to remember to bring a notepad.
curiously enough, i found on the web that klonopin can help a twitch, so i took some then flushed my eyes with eye drops. i have less twitching tonight. i can't even begin to count how many times it occurs in one day. i lucked out doing so well during chemo, i guess i spoke to soon.
sorry to be so bitchy, it's just that i only left utah a week ago today and almost forgot about cancer for a week while there (even with the twitching and tearing). i come home and am up to my neck in work and then have 4 cancer related appointments in one week. if the twitch didn't happen the whole time i was away too, i would assume it was stress related even if i wasn't the least bit nervous over the radiation bit and the echo. gotta find a happy medium with klonopin! i crashed big-time the minute i got home from work and only just woke up.
i just have so little patience for annoying things. the funny thing is, my week in utah cured my last bad problem - the incessant nosebleeds!
valerie
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8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast
10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin.
1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010.
2/10 began 7 wks of radiation
6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer
8/10 got my last remaining ovary out
10/10 mammogram all clear
3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US
needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew!
7/10 switched to Arimidex
8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex
Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin
Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much.
back on Tamoxifen 1/2013.
blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen
tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer.
cancer's screwing with another man i love
2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!
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