hi my name is Shannon and I joined in hopes to find support for my situation. I went for my first mammogram last week and was just called and told they found...
Shannon: How strong is your familiar breast cancer history?, because depending on the number of relatives is your real risk, and sometimes you may have a...
Hi Shannon, Waiting for tests is absolutely the worst part of it all. Hopefully yours will turn out to be nothing, I will be rooting for you. I also am 35...
Hello all, Well I go in for surgery at 6 am in the morning. Very scared, but I guess we will know more tomorrow. I know that having the excisional biopsy will...
Hi all I need some advice again. I'm on my 7th round of chemo, 3rd of the docetaxol and my body is just killing me. I have these muscle pains that have...
Kelley: If you have detected the spot of pain and the route is like a nerve, probably is a nerve. Sometimes the surgeon selects to preserve the sensitive...
Marie: 10 to 15% is huge, sufficient to put you something more as premedication. Commonly my medical oncologists increase the doses of dexamethasone (or starts...
when you say block the nerve, do you mean such as a epidural? I've already done all that and was unsuccessful. also done 3 trigger point injections on that...
Adolfo, Thank you for the information! I've been taking dexamethasone for the three days around my chemo treatment (day before, day of, and day after) they...
Hi, Next week I start chemo and they're using a cocktail of Taxotere, Adriamycin, and Cytoxan (TAC) every three weeks for about 6 months. Has anybody had this...
Misty, When you are up and about, please tell us how your surgery went. My first excisional biopsy was not too bad, and I was ready to get out of bed on the...
Marie, I read recently that fibro myalgia is a very common side effect of certain kinds of chemotherapy. I know that myalgia can be very painful. I hope that...
i had AC and taxetere but had the AC first and then the taxetere. I was given the AC and with that zophran - this drug worked for me and i did not throw up at...
Cheryl i'm very lucky that i have a great guy and we are getting married in May. He was such a support thru everything and he was the one who felt the lump. I...
Hi everyone...... A new year with new and unlimiting possibilities. Great things can happen when we work together to create a better future. This year, begin...
Hi Kristi, I read your other e'mail first - so you've answered some of my questions from the other e-mail - Lisa's tumor was already 5mm. They diagnosed in...
Kristi, Thanks for the info:) i'm going to have chemo on Thursdays hoping I'll feel fine by Monday. The only pills I've been givin are Dexamethasone I think...
Kelley: I mean to put a blocker substance in the nerve, like formaldehyde or steroids or liquid nitrogen, but the most important thing is to find what...
Thanks a lot for the information, I will talk with my doctor about that. My next appointment is on the 8th. With the spinal cord stimulator, if they could...
but wouldnt formaldehyde be toxic to the body? adolfo fuentes-alburo <adolfo_fa@...> wrote:Kelley: I mean to put a blocker substance in the nerve, like ...
Marie: Carbamazepine and gabapentine are antineuritic drugs with good results in the management of this kind of pain. Their side effects are somnolence and...
Donna: TAC scheme is a variation of the classic FAC (changed 5FU by taxanes). The side effects are similar to the FAC scheme, with something of nausea,...
Adolfo, Thank you so much for the information. Its great to get straight answers and help with something that has become so painful to me. Its also great...
Donna: If you read and learn you may have a little control on your treatment. You can decide about the use of Zofran, Kytril or another antiemetic; you can...
Marie: I hope that your doctor agrees with my comments (some of our gang are a little selfish). Tamoxifen should be taked AT LEAST five years, but I think in...
hi Adolfo, Sadly the hospital is so busy with chemo patients that I have to take whatever day is open..gotta love those HMOs. I wanted to go on Thursday so I...
Adolfo, Annulate? what exactly do you mean when you say "the number of positive lymph nodes will be annulated by recepters" i also didn't get the sentence...
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