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09-08-2006, 03:42 PM
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Need advice re: new symptom
I'm currently still on Xeloda and Zometa. My rib pain has increased, so we'll be doing scans again soon. But yesterday with my wonderful PA, I mentioned that I'd had a lot of gas. Then I belched. She asked whether I'd had a lot of belching and whether I'd felt a bloated stomach. My answer to both was no. She obviously felt something while pressing my tummy.
That was Thursday morning. By Thursday evening, I vomited terribly and had a very achy, bloated stomach. Today I've just stayed in bed all day. My entire healing team had gone to a conference in Florida over the weekend.
Has anyone out there experienced these symptoms? I could use the help.
Love and light,
Lisa
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09-08-2006, 04:02 PM
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI
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Boy Lisa, I did a search...
and found nothing (odd), but will DEFINATELY keep you in my prayers (have been thinking about you lately. Take care and God bless.
Rhonda
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Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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09-08-2006, 04:14 PM
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Founder - HER2 Support Group
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I'll give you a call to get more details.Christint
Hi Lisa, I'll do some research before Icall.
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09-08-2006, 05:33 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: Walnut Creek, CA
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Lisa,
Could it possibly be your gallbladder? If you google, symptoms of gallbaldder disease, I think you will find some of your symptoms there. It is just a thought.
I sure hope you are felling better.
Karen
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09-08-2006, 07:55 PM
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Location: Misty woods of WA State
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I hope just the flu
There is a gastro thing going around and my friend has it. She saw her doctor this morning who said that her belly pains and gas are most likely a bug that is making an appearance lately. Itis not like any other gastro distress my friend has ever experienced.
I will pray that is the case with your problem.
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MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~
Found suspicious lump 9/2000
Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement
Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR -
Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds
36 rads - very little burning
3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum
Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED!
2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa
Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18
All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET
Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying
Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa
Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?)
2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava
2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec.
Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011
STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer
7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones
Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED
2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED.
Same news for 2016 and all of 2017.
Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.
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09-08-2006, 08:11 PM
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Believe me I know exactly what you are talking about. I suffered with rib pain all through chemo and still do on an off. It felt like my ribs were being squeezed in a vice. My Oncologist and scans showed it was nothing but the pain got so bad a few weeks ago that I went to my GP and he ordered a gall bladder ultrasound....it still showed nothing wrong. The pain has gone away since but I still get a twinge when I eat sometimes. I was put on Nexium and it helped...sherryg683
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09-08-2006, 08:18 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: Alexandria, VA
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Lisa, Hoping it's nothing. Please get it checked out and let us know. BB
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09-08-2006, 09:35 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: Oregon
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Hi Lisa;
It always seems that we have to have some kind of crisis when the weekend is coming up and everyones gone on a conference! Haven't had your symptoms except in relation to intestinal bug or food poisoning, and either one is no fun. Flat ginger ale and saltines seem to help me when I have the "bug". Hope you're feeling better soon, but be sure and get things checked out by your team when they return, and keep us posted.
<3 Lolly
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09-09-2006, 08:32 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ft. Collins, Colorado
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i have had the same thing
Hi Lisa, this is so weird and I don't want to post about me, but I have felt just plain weird and uncomfortable in my chest and belly for weeks. Lots of pressure, rib pain, bloating and belching (no vomiting though). I have made myself crazy trying to figure out if it is related to drug side effects, liver met progression, gall bladder or what. It has started to feel better, but it has been quite a while since I felt right.
I so hope this resolves for you quickly and maybe we figure out what the heck it is!
Get your rest, rent a funny movie and relax.
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dx stage I 2/2000*er/pr+; her- per IHC*lumpectomy*4 rounds A/C*30 rads*tamoxifen*dx stage 4 5/2002*huge mets to liver*tiny mets to lungs*stopped tamoxifen*5/02 taxotere/xeloda*her 2 checked with FiSH-her2+++herceptin *2/03 stopped chemo femara w/herceptin*zolodex*04 switched to aromasin w/herceptin*05 high estrogen tx*11/05taxol/carbo*7/06 stopped chemo; megace/herceptin*9/06navelbine/herceptin*5/07tykerb/xeloda great response*4/08 progression in liver; ooph/ faslodex /herceptin
6/08 began Herceptin DM-1
9/08 progression
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