Single life after a mastectomy
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ha ha ha I lived in Paris back in 1992. And my brother in law father always said it. I ended up using the expression a lol then here it made sense to call myself Enerva lol
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Enerva, I am so glad you shared what your user name means. Awesome!
WTF Deb! Oh yeah...you bet...I am scolding you for throwing your low self esteem all over that last post.
Buck up and accept the luv.....
Throwing some XOXOXOXOXO your way
(unsure about the whole Zoladex thing, will have to research. In the meantime I am so confused about shoving a pill inside of you)
Or am i tired from 2 days of work and cannot read????
The poster formerly known as Piper
(I may change my name often now. LOL! next week may be...."youbetiamdrunkwhyarentyou?"
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BTW, I flunked Tamoxifen 101. But I am an enigma in my own mind
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Ha ha ha ha love that Dog s attitude, Ya Deb wtf? lol ok ok vent girl now u see why i call myself Enerva lol cuz je suis enerve lol.
Everyroseha ya me too i am confused with Tessas pill situation. Anyway i guess i am the only one awake at this time. i ll visit the insomnia forum lol those ladies are so fast i cant never catch up with them but they make me laugh.
Night ( hoping to dream with my channin tonight) lol
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Enerva.....I swear I am going to jump in Channings lap. Damn If I were a younger woman.
Yo gonna make me g o to insomnia ??? I can only handle so many threads at a time
And I am so slow. The most ai can drive from limited info is a sub q injection of Zoladex. I cannot determine anything after having an unlimited amount of red vino.
Yep.......everyrosehasathronis drinking too much red wine after being a saint for 2 days.
Fudge!
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lol i tell you that forum is so cool lol anyway just keep it in mind if you ever awake and cant sleep.
Hey stay away from my Channin lol ok ok go ahead try to land on his lap ha ha ha oh me too if what if ha ha ha
have you watch any of his movies? i love that boy lol so romantic
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E...you need to study honey....LOL Channin and I gonna take a lap around the track, I'll give him back when you pass your exam.
Just saying....and j/k
Actually ......
I am really tired, depressed and needing a change...
shoooot
Maybe we should rename this thread
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lol i am so stress about my exam, o well ok give him back after my exam. lol
g nite
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Tessa - lol - It was just the excuse I needed to start eating the wrong foods again. ;-) BTW, I never heard of a pill injected into the stomach. There's something new to learn every day here.
Everyrose - Good job in finding out about the screennames. Maybe we all should start playing musical-screennames - just to keep any spies out there confused. (lol) Of course, then we'd be confused, too...
Deb - I'll bet your sister has no doubt that you love and care about her. :-) But, yeah, I've found posts I made, like, 10 years ago on other forums, still floating around out there in cyberspace. Afraid some people might misunderstand them, I went back and deleted whatever I could that could be traced to me. When I was first DXed, the very first few days, I shredded my old diaries. I pictured myself not making it and then my family reading them. (lol)
Enerva - Good luck with your exams. And sweet dreams with Channing. ;-)
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You girls crack me up ! LOL
Piper, I've got to get used to calling you Everyrose.... I still end up typing Piper. : P
Deb, you kill me.... threw away your sex toys.... Now you've got an excuse to buy new ones! With the way things seem to be coming out of left field for you at times you could probably use one about now. LOL (It's funny because I thought about that too. Then I figured " Hey, I'll be gone. So if they find the drawer, they find the drawer.... ) Your sister knows you love her dear. No matter what you post here. It's the ones closest to us that can hurt us the most and I'm sure she understands that.
.You guys haven't heard of the pill impalement? So is this a new thing and I'm a guinea pig? I don't recommend it.
Either that, or they need to let me have a few margaritas before I walk in there. Enerva I love your name! I'm going to start using it all the time now. That way when I'm pissed off at work no one will know what I'm saying.
Keep us posted on how you do on your exam!
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lol Yes Tessa that must be a new med. I was also surprised when you said they put a N in your back for the surgery. All i got was morphine for the first few hours after i woke up and after that Percocet. I think somehow every clinic and Hospital has their own way of dealing with this bc surgeries.
I am glad you are smiling i dont know how i would have reacted a the new nurse missing the half a pill thing. lol
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The drug is called Zoladex and they put a pill on the end of what I like to call a lance and then jab it into your stomache.
Of course I got the newbie who I believe was on her first day. ( I was surprised there was no one overseeing her.) Don't get me wrong, she was very nice, but to every question it was " I'm sorry I don't know. I just started."
Then when she jabbed the pill into my stomache and pulled out the lance a tiny bit of the pill was still left. It had broken off. ( OF COURSE IT DID...) So, she says " Oh, bad news. We've got to do it again." At that point I was balling as it was. Mostly because I had a miscarriage 9 months ago and I knew this was taking away any chance of ever having another child. ( Yes, I know I'm 43, but the emotions are still there and I still feel the sting of losing my child)
The thing I don't understand is that : if they jab it in my stomache (near my ovaries?) and it dissolves, how is that so different from taking it orally?
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Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' bout !
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My bc was noted as ER/PR +. So it's supposed to shut down my ovaries. I have to endure this once a month every Friday for the next 5 years.
Doesn't it seem like it would be cheaper / easier to just remove them?
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Ok, now I'm confused more than ever. In an article on zoladex it says:
"But some premenopausal women may want to temporarily stop the ovaries from producing estrogen so they have the option of having children after treatment. Medicines called LHRH (luteinizing"
I'm also on femera. The article on Femera says:
Femara (chemical name: letrozole) is an aromatase inhibitor approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat:
- postmenopausal women diagnosed with hormone-receptor-positive, early-stage breast cancer right after surgery (or possibly chemotherapy and radiation) to reduce the risk of the cancer coming back
WHY AM I ON THESE SIMULTANEOUSLY??
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Oh dear, i have no idea i am 40 i was 38 when mxd, i was not given any options other than frezze my eggs which i had not time to do cuz Chemo needed to be in my system within a week. So yes i am now facing the never been a mother fact. I am ok cuz i am single i broke up with the loser who was only using me for sex so i am ok but i wish i had options to preserve some hope. Anyway know i was given Tamoxifen and i turned it down. I know its crazy cuz there is a chance of C coming back but i am taking my chances . I am in not economic situation to have a child and who knows if i will ever be. I am now just glad my period came back and i am feeling somehow normal.
Tessa please ask your onco to explain all these drugs and the why and make sure you write things down ,if you can. Since with our brains we tend to forget the details. Sending you big hugs.
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Tessa - Oh, NOW I remember. I remember either reading about Zoladex or my onc talking with me about it. (It's been a few years since chemo for me.) I don't remember the onc mentioning that a pill would be involved in the injection, though. I never had Zoladex. The chemo put me into early menopause. Then I tested positive for BRCA-2, and eventually both ovaries were removed, anyway.
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Enerva, you totally humble me. Who the heck am I to complain? Not that it wasn't emotionally gutwrenching, but I should just be thankful for what I have.
I did call the MO office and a woman gave me the what for's. She said "This is standard. This is what we do. It's not just you."
So, I read her word for word the article quotes and asked why I'm on them simultaneously. She said "The zoladex is making you menopausal even though temporarily so you're able to take the femera." I said " I'm still getting a period. So how can I be menopausal?" She responded with "Just like pregnancy, it's not immediate reactions."
So, I hope if any of you also are prescribed this crap, somehow this helps.
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Adding: Right, it's all coming back now. (lol) Zoladex is for stopping the ovaries temporarily. That's probably why I was considering it at the time. Even though I had no plans to have more children at that point, I still wanted to keep as many body parts as possible.
As for being on Zoladex and Femera - your onc probably wants to hit the cancer with everything available. I had the ovaries removed but still take Tamoxifen. Recently, I started wondering why. So, I looked it up and read that women are given Tamoxifen after an oophorectomy. Go figure.
Anyway, it's good that you're looking into these things and staying on top of the information. Mistakes can happen.
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Throwing away sex toys...Oh the sacrilege.
Nice Pic T. I almost posted that last night...but I had too much wine and feel asleep instead.
On a serious note Tessa, You really need to sit down with someone at your oncs office so you can better understand your treatments and the rationale behind them. It would be a good idea to take someone with you as a second pair of ears. I had a little notebook with questions in it and I would write information down too. My MO office prints off a 'depart' paper with my plan on it. Kind of like discharge instructions. While there are some very knowledgeable people on the boards and even some good site with info, you and your medical office all need to be on the same page.
That's my 2 cents even though you didn't ask for it.
Yep, back to Piper. I like the nickname. and now that my PMS has passed I am feeling a little more like myself.
Until next month when a new personality pops out.
xoxoxoxoxo
The poster briefly known as Thorny
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Ha ha ha Tessa dont worry, i love to heard at least some people are given options. I am good, and glad you asked them cuz it sucks they do what ever and we have not clue of why or what is involved in it. lol
Keep it coming its all ok we need to be informed.
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I wish i had one of this lol
So i could just hit the road lol
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(LOL E-nice ride!)
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Oh i am so ready for spring. i wish i could just ride. Do any of you own a motorcycle? i got one just before i got bc, now i must sell it cuz i have no idea what is in store for me financially i need to cut all expenses so bike insurance must end this March. ;( wont get to ride it at all this season.
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There is so much sadness at my second favorite forum, someone mom is passing and it just breaks my heart. There are no words to say, its the worse time when we lose a love one.
How are you girls?
Deb, a harley? girl that is a luxury lol
my bike is a small honda cbr250
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Sorry to hear E.
Hugs to you and the others on your 2nd fav forum.Leaving you all with this thought. But isn't it the truth ??
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enerva - i am so sorry...how's your sis? hope things are alright
pipers - lol, i love it.
i had a quite stressful week even i am on disability. the disability paper work took so long to get to the insurance company bc the orig form got lost in the mail. and my office asked one piece of the form at a time, so much delay and it stressed me out.
talked to my building to terminate the lease early bc i live too far. the bldg manager had no compassion whatsoever, i asked if i could get an exception and she said so many members of her family got cancer and i am not the only one. geeze, ppl are so heartless. i didn't know cancer is as common as a flu. i still can't believe the sh*t came out of her mouth.
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June - Sorry to hear that the building manager was so rude to you. :-(
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Hi, sorry i just finished readying my boring book.
I am sorry June that lady should be more sensitive. Well were hopping to get my sis results tomw but not sure if they will keep us waiting over the weekend. I am so tired and also having pain and my right side is bothering me as if the implant is getting capsule contraction. Weird ,I hope i get to see another PS soon. its been 4 weeks since my surgery and i still feel like crap.
Good night ladies
oh ya i love the a s s post lol
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