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Old 11-28-2005, 01:37 AM   #4
jojo
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Post Hi Michele

So sorry that you had to go through such a rough time. Hearing about your story, though, just brought a strange memory to my mind.

While I was on A/C 2 summers ago, one afternoon I had to go to the ER, cuz my tongue had kept going in backward and my cheeks had kept sucking in, almost as if I was self-choking. I was totally baffled, as I had never experienced this before. Well, it turned out to be an allergic reaction to Compazine (anti-nausea meds). Of course, I was immediately taken off the meds & switched to Emend (my miracle drug!... no vomits at all).

However, on that very same day, I had this really awfully nagging feeling that was trying to tell me to ask the ER doctor for an urine sample. And so I did. I did NOT have ANY symptoms, but just that allergic reaction only. Sometimes I wonder WHO or HOW it was pushing me to ask for the sample. I simply had NO idea, but it was such a good thing that I then asked, though -- I DID have a bladder infection, after all! Again, with no symptoms -- it was just intuition, I guess...

Are you on Cipro? That was the antibiotics I took for my bladder infection. I hated, just HATED it! I would have to take a pill every 6 hours or so, and I would make sure that I had a seat to be sitting down for a while, since a horrible stomach ache would come on EVERY time and it would last a good long while -- I think just about MORE painful than a bad menstrual cramp!! Thankfully, I had to take Cipro for a week or so.

If I recovered well, you will, too! Keep up your fighting spirits, Michele. :-)


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1st Dx: May '03 at age 35
Stage 3b
6cm IDC tumor
17/18 + nodes
Neoadjuvant: 4x A/C dose dense; 12x weekly Taxol & weekly Herceptin
Left Mastectomy: Nov '03
27x Rads
Stage 4 since June '04
Still on maintenance Herceptin since the very beginning
Currently on Abraxane (3 weeks / 1 week off)
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