Calling all triple negative breast cancer patients in the UK
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Hello Mary,
Thank you for your latest post.
I agree with what you said about taking care of ourselves.
I was really glad to know that your mammogram was clear. Hang on to that even with all that we know about mammograms.They will be used until the machines have exhausted their use.
I think our NHS is cracking up throughout the UK. It has been used and abused on all fronts. It is trying to treat to many patients. The system is now trying a new approach that I shall explain another time.
Thinking of you,
Love,
Sylvia.
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Hello gmmiph, Thank you for your latest post,
Please take one day at a time. Start your chemotherapy and do one session at a time calmly and with optimism.
There are different kinds of chemotherapy regimens and we are all different. The person to ask about why you are having FEC is your oncologist. Some of us have EC and some of us have FEC. As for having one of the Taxanes, whether it is Taxotere(docetaxel) or Taxol(paclitaxel) this seems often to be done separately as the second half of chemotherapy. I had three months of EC and three months of Taxotere. My oncologist said Taxotere was less harmful on the heart. I suspect there is not much difference. At the time Taxotere seemed more common in Europe and Taxol more common in North America.
I hope this helps,
Best wishes,
Sylvia. xxx.
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Hello Val,
It was nice to hear from you and to know you are recovering from your mild stroke.
As for the various things that we suffer from post treatment we just have to give it a long time to recover.
The body has been poisoned in order to keep us alive and it needs a lot of time to get back to good health.
Thinking of you,
Sylvia.xxx.
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Hello gmmph,
I am so glad you have found some comfort and friendship in these messages, I found the same here, and it pulled me through many dark hours to come and see what people all around the world were saying and feeling about many of the same issues I was having. Sisters all of us, and some brothers too.
I think Sylvia is right about your treatment regimen your MO will know the correct protocol. May I ask what led to the CT scans of your lung and liver? I asked my MO Tuesday why I never had any screening scans or tests except for mammograms. She said tests are not given without symptoms. Did you have symptoms of some kind, or perhaps protocol is just different doc to doc. I said to her, "we are always told to catch things early, how can we catch it early if we don't know we have something?" I always forget to ask, "what would you do, doc, if this was your body and you were in my shoes? Hmmmm?"
How funny about your Dr. Axe mix-up! I am picturing you giving him a long French kiss, he is very tall, that could be a challenge! He was one of the speakers we saw on our last day of the conference, comes off as a very intelligent, kind, knowledgable doc.
Sounds like you have a good MO, and sounds like she is confident of your success. A very good place to start!
Talk to you soon, g.
sending a hug across the many miles, Mary
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HI, Sylvia,
Our health-care costs are fixed to skyrocket again at the beginning of the new year. Our departing president made sure he would be gone before the Plan he pushed really collapses because nobody can afford it.
Saw my acupuncture doc yesterday, I like him so much. He said thermography is available about an hour from me and he thinks it is good. I told him the mammography technician said she didn't approve of thermography and he said that is a normal thing for her to say, He said the thermography will light up areas of your body that do not have cancer, but it is good for looking at specific areas. I suppose rather like the PET scan results, except no radiation with thermography.
I am going to start to work on Day 3, the final day of conference.
Talk to you soon, love, Mary
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Hello to all,
Day 3 of Symposium TTAC
Ty and Charlene Bollinger greeted us every morning at 8 AM sharp. They were very happy with the way things had gone so far, and were very enthused. It was the first time they had done anything like this, and it turned out better than they had hoped.
The first speaker was Dr. Darrell Wolfe. His presentation opened with a video of his son singing a song he had written about his mother, the doc's 1st wife, getting ill and dying of cancer. Then Dr. Wolfe spoke at length. He stuck almost completely with the emotional and spiritual aspects of dealing with prevention and treatment of illness. He spoke of self-love and the great importance of loving ourselves, and doing the best things for ourselves, in OUR lives. "Until you are ready to honor yourself you will never rise to your full potential." He was speaking of emotionally, but also physically, meaning to not further poison ourselves with bad food, bad chemicals, bad treatments. He said we are mostly brought up to believe that self-interest is bad, and selfish. He said we should get over that, and really try to have self-love, he said Breast Cancer is an emotional issue. He firmly believes that. (I tend to agree with him.) He said to not be afraid of living, or dying, and that energy lives forever.
To sum-up, he says that loving ourselves means to eat well and healthy, to live clean: chemical-free and cruelty-free. It means to exercise, but not to excess. In his opinion, excessive exercise is self-disapproval. It means to try to avoid toxic relationships, people, and situations. It means to enjoy our life we are given, and to thank God every day.
Note: Dr. Wolfe is physically a small man, but is a powerful, energetic speaker. He moved me to a tear or two, and I did get to shake his hand and I told him I thought his presentation was inspiring, but I hated to cry early in the morning. He laughed and gave me a big hug. A nice encounter.
The next speaker was Dr. Josh Axe, another rock star. He spoke of the importance of removing toxic foods from diet, naming GMOs (genetically modified organisms), pork (because of parasites, drugs), and he also disapproves of eating almost all shrimp. He also does not approve of conventional meat and dairy, refined sugar and sweeteners, hybridized wheat and hydrogenated oil, or refined grains.
He actually started out with the story of his mother, who was diagnosed with cancer some years ago. This is what turned his attention to the importance of prevention of cancer. He went through her battles with her, and then worked up a diet and exercise plan for her, and she is cancer-free and healthy now years later.
He said it is most important to transform diet. Bone broth is very good, also and especially if you are having trouble eating due to treatment programs. Vegetables and vegetable juice, organic kefir and flax seeds, wild-caught salmon, blueberries and raspberries. He spoke of the importance of herbs; he named, among others, cilantro, parsley, turmeric, cinnamon, medicinal mushrooms; specifically, reishi, cordyceps, shitake. He touted Vitamin D3, probiotics, green tea, spirulina/chlorella, sauerkraut, and ginger.
He very much likes essential oils. Frankincense, myrrh, limon, thyme, lavender and ginger especially. Lavender and ylang-ylang before bed, epsom salt baths.
Note: He said to rub frankincense on roof of mouth, but I did not make a note as to why, hmmm.
Physical: He very much likes lymphatic massage, and barefoot walking in sun. He recommends more sun and more vacations. He recommends exercising with a rebounder, he likes deep breathing and yoga.
He stresses the importance of spiritual restoration, and how important it is to forgive. He says that "unforgiveness" affects the liver.
Observation: He is used to speaking for much longer, he really had to rush to finish in time, but some of you have already found him on draxe.com We very much liked him and his presentation.
Have to stop for now, will continue later.
Mary
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Hello Everyone,
It's nice to see this thread so busy, and full of pretty good news. I enjoyed reading about the Philippines, and the symposium. Thank you all for posting such good information. As always, thank you Sylvia for being so attentive to everyone's posts.
I just got a new book, Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life, by David Servan-Schreiber. It was recommended to me on another post. With a quick skim, the advice in it seems to fall in line with everything else I've read here. I did try to find the book by Karol Sihora, but could only fine a price of $33 - 44 US, so I'll have to wait until I can find a reasonable price for that one.
As far as Tamoxifen is concerned, I'm very happy that I don't have to take it. I have a friend and supporter who has struggled with it for years, and finally weighed the likelihood of recurrence, then tossed it out of her life.
I'm still waiting to hear about whether I will have radiation. My MO says with amusement that he finds me..."unusual"...for wanting it. I told him that I want to avoid regrets, and don't, in fact want it. But he said that when we get to that point, after surgery and pathology, that the radiologist will sit down with me to discuss pros and cons, and that the outcome may be that there is not a compelling reason to do it. He was right that I didn't need a port, and after 15 out of 16 treatments, I'm cultivating a (hopefully) informed trust.
I'm having reconstruction, but do admire all of you who forgo it. I like the simplicity of that solution, but it's not for me at this time. Mine will likely be a BMX with expander placement. The implants will come later.
I was offered BRCA testing months ago, and it came back normal/negative. I didn't really know what it was all about at the time, but I'm glad I didn't. I reconnected with an elderly family member to find out family history details, so some good did come of it.
Well, my lunch hour is almost over, so I'll wish you all as happy a day as possible.
Pam
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Hi Sylvia , Mary , gmmiph and all
Thank all of you for your precious comments . Mary , thanks a million for posting so much valuable information you are getting from that symposium . There have been some invitations to such symposiums for me but unfortunately they all interfered with my class hours.
Sylvia , I couldn't agree with you more on what you said about being selfless as I have always been like that . All people who know me say that I am too caring and I should sometimes avoid it.I'm always ready to help, to sympathise , and even to put aside what I love for the sake of others and now maybe it's time I loved myself more. During all my problems , I just worry about all who love me and the effects my problems have on them. This makes things more difficult for me . And if I ever talk to someone about my problems , especially someone who has never had such an experience , I regret it to the extend that I feel ashamed of myself .
Gmmiph, my feelings of lightheadedness and pressure are still sometimes with me.I have never had migraine but I have heard it's very severe. I hope it's nothing important and I want all of you send your prayers and positive energies to help me get out of it.
Lots of love
Hanieh
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A quick hello to everyone here. . Glad we all doing OK and moving ahead with our lives. Finger crossed things will remain that way and we would be chatting and discussing about our health in 10 - 20 years to come!
Next appointement for me is for mid dec. My MO wants to see another liver MRI for his peace of mind then, so will do another MRI soon.
Apart from vitamin D.. not taking any medication.. but juicing vegerables and fruits every morning.. music is everywhere around me. . I listen to all type of music.. classic.. jazz. .soul.. reggae.. old school.. world music.. Commercial.. I use it as a way to escape all.. I dive into lyrics or get taken away by its notes. .
Prayers to all of you and to me.. and à special payer to== cocker ==and wishing her a b9 mass.
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HI, Valstim52,
Does the 52 stand for the year you were born? I was born in 1952.
Glad you are recovering as well as you are, you have been through a lot. I wonder why suddenly your taste is affected. I know what that is like, when I was hospitalized after my first chemo treatment, I could not eat or drink anything without absolutely forcing it down. Even plain ice water tasted like dirt, it was intolerable. First time in my life I ever lost my appetite! I also lost a lot of weight, so try and drink some good quality protein drink if you don't feel like eating. The stuff the cancer center gives us is not very good, not very much protein and way too much sugar.
I did not have rads, so didn't go through that, but I'm glad you recovered so well.
I also want to be the person I was before, but I'm not there, and I guess I will never be there. Because the truth is I was 2 1/2 years younger then, and I can't turn back the clock and make what happened not happen. I do not have anywhere near the stamina I had before, and I just hate it, I am so proud of you for working out and doing what you can. That's all we can do, right? With all the faith and joy we can find to work with.
Vent away, I just did too!
Mary
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Hi Sylvia, Mary, Honey, and all,
Thank you for your wonderful posts. It calms me down to read posts here, whether good or bad, because they made me realize that i am not alone.
Sylvia and Mary, you both are always there, to give comfort and help. May the Lord give you more power and wisdom. Sylvia, i will take your advice about my FEC protocol. Mary, to answer your question briefly, i was put on FEC because my MO says i am still on early stage bc and says my 2d echo shows that i may have a little bit of an enlarged heart, but still very manageable as with my small nodules on my lung and liver. FEC is less cardiotoxic accdg to her. I still believe, however that taxane is an important part of the chemo and i shall discuss it with her later. I really like your posts about the symposium and wish we have it here. Dr. Axe seem to be your fave and me seeing his website, gave me the impression that he is not just for the money but is really sincere in helping patients. He gives so many helpful tips and info, all for free. I remember requesting on email for the book of Ty Bollinger "The Truth About Cancer" which we used as reference for cancer diet for my ailing father with kidney cancer. That book was also given to me, for free, no questions asked. Such nice people. I am sure more blessings will come their way.
Honey, prayers really do help, and that i will do for you gladly. We all need to pray for each other.
I have to attend to my daily chores now. See you all soon friends.
My best wishes to all.
Gmmiph
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A few more photos from our trip to Australia - these are taken along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia - that is a koala in the tree
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Wow, I love it, it makes me feel happy to look at your bright, sunny pics!
Thanks for posting, Adagio!
Mary
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we rode a Harley Davidson along the great ocean road ha ha it's beautifu
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first paxitaxol today! Shoulder still sore and I expect it to get worse but overall better than AC.!i need to keep remembering I have had a previous dislocation and rotator cuff tear of that shoulder ha ha hope everyone well. ALT is still up a little in my liver function tests and I'm
A bit concerned about that but will keep an eye o. It before dose 2 of taxol next Friday.!!ned to stop think worse case scenario and it's just the after affects of the AC
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Hello everyone,
I have just opened up the computer for Friday October 28th and am amazed at how busy the thread has been since I did my posts yesterday. I am so glad to see that you are all interacting. We all seem so very close.
Thank you Mary, Pam, Hanieh, 4everStrong, gmmiph, adagio and Kath. I shall be responding as I can over the next few days.
adagio, thank you for those wonderful photographs. I am speechless about Australia! You and your husband look very healthy, happy and relaxed. It brightens our day here in cloudy Exmouth!
Hello to Rhonda and Chris, we hope to hear from you soon.
To Claudia, I hope all is OK and that your chemo is going well.
To Amanda, I hope work is not proving too stressful.
To Michael, I hope you have not left the thread and I wish you all the best.
To everybody going through chemo at the moment, keep looking forward and try to tell us your experiences with AC or EC of FEC and then with the taxanes, either Docetaxel (Taxotere) or paclitaxel (Taxol).
I do not think we have anyone posting going through radiotherapy at the moment.
Keep up all the good work you are doing.
Best wishes.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hi adagio
You made my day with those nice pictures . You look healthy , happy and Australia is so nice a place to visit . Wish you the best for ever.
Love
Hanieh
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Hi, Lily,
I have the same book, the "Anti-Cancer", it is good, as you said, it echoes a lot of what we have been talking about here. The writer certainly went through a lot of stuff with his cancer, wow!
I did not have radiation after chemo. My first MO said I didn't need it, then he retired and when I was done with chemo nobody said anything about it. I asked the nurse of the radiation oncologist if that was indeed right to leave it out. She asked the radiation oncologist and he conferred over my case and came back with the thought that perhaps I should have it. At the time I was having a lot of shoulder pain from a torn rotator cuff. Also neuropathy pains over my whole body, and carpal tunnel along with tightness and pain from my mastectomy scar. He finally decided that perhaps the benefits would not outweigh causing me more misery from the rads. Now, of course, I wish I had had it, still have my arm problems but they are not as bad.
Good luck with reconstruction, you will be glad of it when it is all finished.
Talk to you soon,
Mary
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To all:
I will be gone for a couple of days, will check in if I have time, and catch up when I get back. Have a good weekend!
Love, Mary
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Hello everyone,
I look forward to everyone's posts and all of the positive thoughts and prayers .So far I have finished 2 of the four
AC and next week I go for my third treatment.Walking has really helped me to feel better.I only took one
Antinausea med and feel much better than when I took t
Them every 8 hours whether needed or not.Claritin helped with aches I experienced with neulasta.
The worst side effect is heart burn and my appetite is not
The greatest. I have great friends and one of them is a
Hairstylist so she is going to cut my wig today.I didn't
Shave my head but cut it short and wearing a scarf.My
17 year old son Jake said he likes it and doesn't want me
To wear a wig.He probably thinks of Halloween wigs.
I love this board and it has really helped me to be
Strong.We got snow in upstate New York yesterday,the trails were beautiful.
Rhonda
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Hi Sylvia and Company!
I saw your post Sylvia, and wanted to personally stop in and say hello! I think of you ladies every day, and certainly you all hold a special place in my heart. I may not post, but do check in! I'm glad to see such a great board continuing to help so many. I will check in again soon as well. BTW Sylvia, I was researching your apricot kernels a few weeks back. Are you still eating them, and what brand are you buying now? Also, I can't recall if you drink coffee. I remember we are both avid green tea drinkers. Cheers!! Lots of love and hugs ladies!!
Debra
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Hello Mary,
Thank you for your posts. I found the summary of your third day very interesting. I do understand what Dr Darrell Wolfe was saying about looking after yourself emotionally and physically and also of liking yourself.
I think the message is finally coming over loud and clear about trying to eat healthily. It is not easy because our food is so adulterated before it gets to the shops. My own action plan is to eat as simply as possible in the way that I was brought up. I also believe we should eat as much raw food as possible and that green vegetables are probably the most important. I think we should go easy on root vegetables. There have been quite a few programmes on the television this week about diabetes 2. I think the anti-diabetic diet is probably the same as the anti-cancer diet. They have both become long-term chronic illnesses and are costing the health system dearly. I think the big enemy is SUGAR (in its various guises) and processed foods. Again, I think Chris Woollams has said it all in the past.
I think we all have to decide what we want to do. It would probably be a good idea if food was rationed!! There Is too much rubbish in the western world passing for food.
I hope you have a good weekend whatever you are doing.
Love,
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello Pam,
It was nice to hear from you and to know that you are enjoying the thread.
I have read the Anti-cancer book you mentioned. We have discussed it in the past. It was very interesting to read.
I am in the process of reading Karol Sikora's book entitled The Street-wise Patient's Guide to Surviving Cancer. I bought the paperback edition through Amazon and paid £9.95. I am not sure how much that is in US $. I think this is THE BOOK for patients to use to guide their way through treatment. It is easy to read and easy to understand. By the way, it is also available on Kindle.
So far, I have not got that far but am very impressed with what I have read. The book starts off with Key Terminology. Chapter 1 is entitled Your battle against cancer – Facing the news, taking back control and making the system work.
Chapter 2 – What is your life worth? - Be aware of rationing and the rapidly rising costs of optimal care.
Chapter 3 – What is cancer anyway? - Information is power – understanding the problem is the key to finding the solution.
The cell
Normal cells
What actually is a cancer?
Classifying cancer
Cancer symptoms
Chapter 4 – How is cancer treated? - Getting the best treatment plan for you.
Check list of key questions on your treatment plan.
Surgery
Surgery – what you need to know
Radiotherapy
Intensity Modulated radiotherapy – IMRT
Image guided radiotherapy – IGRT
Proton beam therapy
Your radiotherapy check list.
Chemotherapy
I have found all this most interesting and I think all new patients will find it most useful to read and will empower them with information.
I am about to read chapter 5 when I can find the time. It is all about modern cancer drugs and how we got here.
I agree with you that having hormonal breast cancer and being drugs such as tamoxifen is no walk in the park.
Let us know what happens about radiotherapy with you. You might want to try to read Karol Sikora's chapter on Radiotherapy.
Please remember in all of this that you must be in control and make the decision about what you think is best for you.
You have nearly finished your chemotherapy journey. November 1st is almost upon us.
Keep in touch.
Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello Hanieh,
I do hope you will be able to make more time for yourself. Reading your description of the kind of person you are is like looking in a mirror at myself!
I think all of us who have been through cancer treatment worry about the other people in our lives and how the disease affects them. I do not think it is worth talking to people who have not been through cancer about how we feel and how it has affected our lives. It is best just to stick together because we cancer survivors know what the newly-diagnosed patients are going through.
I do hope you are feeling better. If you have the time, and can get the book by Karol Sikora, I think you will get a lot out of reading it.
Sending you fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello 4everStrong,
It was so nice to hear from you.
I do hope all will go well when you have your next appointment in mid-December.
I do hope you will get good results again when you have another liver MRI. It is good that your oncologist is being cautious.
I was glad to know you are taking vitamin D. All the information we get makes it sound really important and more of a hormone than a vitamin. It certainly seems that we do not want to be deficient in vitamin D and it is hard to get from diet.
I am sure all that lovely music is very good therapy for you.
Last night Raymond and I watched a concert that the English singer Petula Clark gave in Berlin in April. She is 83 but sings as well as ever. After the concert there was a programme about French Song which I really enjoyed. It traced the history of French Song from the Middle Ages to the present day. There were so many of my favourite singers and songs. My top favourites are Edith Piaf, and Charles Aznavour. I could listen to them for ever. I do so love the French language. There is a gap in my knowledge about singers who became famous after I left France way back in 1975. One that stood out was a young female singer, Zaz. Of course, our Petula sings very well in French.
Sending you fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello gmmiph,
Thank you for all your kind words about the thread and I am so glad to know that it helps you. We all understand what you are going through at the moment.
I hope you will read my posts to Pam (lilyp6) in the US, in which I give some details about the book by Karol Sikora, entitled The Street-wise Patient's guide to Surviving Cancer, which I am busy reading. Try to read it if you can. I bought it in paperback on Amazon. I read it is available on Kindle if that is better for you.
To everyone, I am busy catching up on all the posts. adagio, Kath, Rhonda, InspiredbyDolce, I have not forgotten you but am just taking a break.
Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello gmmiph,
Thank you for all your kind words about the thread and I am so glad to know that it helps you. We all understand what you are going through at the moment.
I hope you will read my posts to Pam (lilyp6) in the US, in which I give some details about the book by Karol Sikora, entitled The Street-wise Patient's guide to Surviving Cancer, which I am busy reading. Try to read it if you can. I bought it in paperback on Amazon. I read it is available on Kindle if that is better for you.
To everyone, I am busy catching up on all the posts. adagio, Kath, Rhonda, InspiredbyDolce, I have not forgotten you but am just taking a break.
Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello Kath,
Thank you for your post and for letting us know that you have now started paclitaxel (Taxol). I hope all goes well. I think you are having them weekly and women that have gone through this thread have said they felt better on weekly doses.
I do hope your shoulder heals gradually.
Why are you being told about your liver function test? Can you explain how this is connected to your treatment? There is a lot of information on Google about ALT and AST. It says that your liver function can still be normal with elevated ALT and that a patient needs to ask their doctor for the complete results of the liver function. You need to ask your doctor what the concern is and can it delay your chemotherapy treatment?
I hope you have a good week and take good care of yourself before your next treatment on Friday.
There seems to be six of you going through chemotherapy so you should all try to swap notes on the thread about your experiences and different side effects. The others going through treatment are Chris-Ash, Clauclau (Claudia), Pam (lilyp6), rlk58 (Rhonda), and gmmiph, due to start chemotherapy (FEC). Most of you seem to have had or are having AC (doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide) or EC (epirubicin and cyclophosphamide). Doxorubicin and epirubicin belong to the same group and everyone seems to have cyclophosphamide. These abbreviations can be very confusing, because the brand name for cyclophosphamide is Cytoxan and the brand name for doxorubicin is Adriamycin.
You can see the confusion. To add to this the brand name for epirubicin is Ellence. I think the experts should make up their mind to use only the initials for the generic name and not the brand name. Anyway, Kath, you are going to get through this.
Take care. Drink plenty of water, rest as much as you need and look forward with optimism.
Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello Rhonda,
Thank you for your post and for the lovely photographs.
I was glad to know that you have finished two of the four ACs. Are you going to have a taxane? I am sure that the walking will have done you a lot of good. There is nothing like some fresh air to lift the spirits.
I am glad that you are managing to get through this with not too much other medication. I am also glad to know that you have great friends who are able to help you.
I am sure your 17 year old son Jake will get used to you wearing a wig, as they are very natural looking. I do not think I could have got through my chemotherapy without my wig. It looked so natural and really suited me.
Thank you for your kind words about the thread and I am so glad to know that it helps yo. We have a great group of women on this thread and we are all learning so much. It is also good to hear from the three men who post on behalf of their wives. Tom has been a great help on the thread as he supported his wife through her cancer journey while she was pregnant. It is good to know they are now a happy family unit. Tom was especially helpful because he was involved in research in a lab. He had a lot to tell us. PeterandLiz posted often and Peter was posting on behalf of his wife. He amazed me by reading the thread from the beginning before posting! Michael has been a dedicated poster and joined the thread after he discovered bc.org. His wife, Janette, died from metastatic TNBC and Michael has set up an online foundation, the Janette Collins Foundation, which is full of very useful information about TNBC. I am sure you would find it useful.
That is about all for now.
Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello InspiredbyDolce (Debra),
I was so glad to see your post and to know that you are still viewing and I am glad to know that you are doing well.
The bitter apricots that I am still eating come in a tub and the name is Creative Nature. I have always bought them on line from Amazon, but recently I have found them in a couple of natural food stores in Exmouth. I eat about ten a day and probably will never stop eating them.
I am still drinking plenty of green tea and I do try all brands. My regular ones, I suppose, are Clipper Green Teas. I get a variety of pure green teabags, as well as green decaffeinated teabags, and Clipper pure green leaf tea.
The reason I try different ones is because some of them are Japanese green teas and the others are Chinese. I buy organic of these when I can.
I also buy Qi brands, and really like Qi loose leaf gunpowder green tea. I have recently bought Che Mate Organic Green tea, which comes from Argentina. This tea has been used for centuries by the South American natives. These leaves come from an evergreen shrub and is a member of the holly tree. This tea is organic.
I also drink the occasional white tea, which is higher in anti-oxidants than the green tea but I do not know about polyphenols.
I also like Clearspring organic Japanese Sencha Matcha Green Tea blend.
Have you tried any of these?
I do not drink much coffee, but I do love the smell of it. I have an occasional cup and drink it black.
I still read the Calling all TNs but do not recognise many of the names now. Titan does not seem to be around, but occasionally some of the people from the past do pop in to say hello. As for Calling all TNBC in the UK, it is very cosmopolitan and very educational.
That is all for now.
Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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