Starting Chemo in February 2016?
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Ladies, you support is overwhelming. Sutzed . Unbelievable! I will never understand men.
Haus- prayers for your son.
mLP- hang in there my friend
Praline- congrats!
Myra- looking good. We are almost done!
Feeling very weak today so I will rest.
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Hello Fab February ladies
I continue to have horrible heartburn on and off. I am switching from Prilocec to Nexium to see if that makes a difference. I have concerns that I will have long term effects on my esophogus after chemo. I having heartburn even when I am not eating or drinking and now I am scared to eat anything that I normally would.
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#12 was done this morning! Some sweet friends from work showed up and surprised me and got to see me ring the bell! There were 6 of them who gave me little things anonymously during chemo, cards, gift cards, inspirational books with bible verses, flowers, etc... Three came and we went to lunch afterwards. None of my family were able to make it, so this was nice. I must apologize ahead of time for the closed eyes! LOL
All of my nurses were able to see it as well. I feel so blessed to have come through so well. Onwards to radiation!
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🎉🎉🎉Congratulations Deaconlady!!🎉🎉🎉
YOU DID IT!!!
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Marvelous, Deaconlady, just marvelous. Well done to you and on to the next step. (I haven't seen any bells in my chemo joint, maybe I have to bring my own. Or a bullhorn. Hmm)
Imani, I really hope you are talking to your MO about your heartburn. That sounds worrisome. I wonder if not eating & drinking could also cause heartburn (acids?). Thinking of you dear.
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congratulations Praline !
Great draconlady! Sorry Frances et al with dreaded symptoms
I've missed you Liz, Myra. Jill, Lisa, Imani, blamoms, Nola,Scotbitd ALL OF YOU
I've had an emotional roller coaster and juggling pain which is ok now.
My daughter broke down about my morality with this last serious scare. Stopping chemo and MO told me stopping dose dense is only done when serious means necessary. She wasn't going to do it until symptoms gave her no choice. Symptoms haven't changed, so will deal with it after treatment. Won't stop chemo again...cant. It may go back to a higher dosage. The meds for hiatus hernia doing nothing.
That said, I feel strong and finally was able to get my once nice teeth turned bad, fixed. I can outwardly smile! I know it's cosmetic but it makes me feel good.
Tshirts are on hold but not forgotten.
Love to all I think of you all always
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Congrats Deaconlady and Praline.
So glad you are able to move forward with treatment PIper.
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hugs Piper!! Big tight one from Michigan.
Congrats Deacon Lady!
I haven't seen any sort of bell at my infusion center....hmmmm but they do all kinds of treatments there and some people with never graduate so maybe that's why.
Took my nurses a box of TimBits for Nurses appreciation week!!!
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Wow Lots has transpired while my internet was down. Huge Hugs to you Frances! Certainly any time is crappy to go through this but now???? Ugh ...thus why I prefer to be on my own!
Congrats to all of you that completed! Such a HUGE accomplishment that none of us wanted to face! Praline great to see you looking so good! Way to go Deaconlady!
Had number 5 like a few others this past Monday. This Taxotere sure is a different breed! Last night and today have been me sweltering, confused when I wake up, a tad nauseous and tired! Bone pain is not so bad reall but the dry nose certainly is not nice either. I know day by day the side effects will change...getting used to the roller coaster of them now! One more to go .I just keep telling myself that!
Imani I just bought some gaviscon to fight my way through what will be coming next. Last time was very unpleasant and I already take a daily stomach pill. On bad days even not eating effects me as well. I would talk to your MO tho!
Back to sleep....just watched a movie and can feel the heat building up in me again. Days like today I wonder how I even had all the hair that I did! Hope this stops when chemo does!
You look wonderful Piper! Glad all is settling down for you!
Thinking of you all!
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hello to all my beautiful Fab Feb Friends! We're getting there! I almost hesitate to say anything yet but this round has been the easiest so far! Went in Mon for chemo then back Wednesday. and today for fluids. No heart palps! And much less weakness and heartburn.im taking all the zofran, Ativan, etc on schedule rather than waiting for symptoms. Hope this holds out! Imani, Protonix is the strongest acid inhibitor I've found. Maybe ask your dr about that. The other ones were too mild. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!
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hi Myra!!
Thinking of you all this Mother's Day Weekend. I miss my mom so much. I'm so grateful and blessed to have my amazing Grace.
Have a lovely weekend
It's Derby day!!!
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Piper! What a beautiful pic! Happy Mothers Day
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HI hausfraumi,
Please remind me what PS you are using? I am from michigan
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Hey Fab Febs, I have a question about AC. Just finished my last #4 of regular (not dose dense) a little over a week ago. Were/are you all still taking anti nausea meds this far out after infusion? Maybe I should still be taking them? I feel off. I am also incredibly irritable and short tempered. And I suspect, depressed. Basically not leaving my room much, never mind the house. Except for work, about a week after chemo I get back to work.
Gosh, also wondering why I didn't get dose dense. (It's the standard). Did your MOs say anything about dose dense vs regular?
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Happy Mothers Day and i hope the fab feb moms will be able to enjoy their day! Made myself get up and go out yesterday afternoon to my Moms for dinner. Was nice to see all my siblings ...minus one who loves too far. First time we have been together since just before my first chemo. Had a nice night!
Only dealing with a sore throat/back of throat area right now. Hurts when I swallow so I am using the magic mouthwash. I know other SE are on their way but it is nice to have pushed myself from laying prone and achy all day! The worst is over for this one and only One More!!!!!!!
Enjoy your day everyone! Thinking of you
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Reflect
I had dose dense, but then I have TN IBC, and they throw as much as fast as possible at you. Towards the end of AC I had to take my nausea meds around the clock. My MO told me to. I had a bad first experience with it, 6 days in the hospital, so they wanted me to stay ahead of nausea
I do know around the 3rd one, it really hit me, that I have an aggressive cancer and it made my mood low and dark. My antidepressant helped me not stay that way. That's what worked for me. Sometimes the feelings hit us, that we are in a fight for life.
I really don't know the advantages or disadvantages for dose dense, except with mine being aggressive those were the reasons given for the stronger dose. .
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Thanks Valstim, So, you took anti nausea meds for the whole three weeks between cycles? Or, continuously I guess?
Yes, I go to dark places at times. Node positive (2 that we know of). Last night I started obsessing about what if (what if they had called me back at 6 months instead of year, as they usually do? What if my PCP had actually done something when she noticed my nodes seemed swollen? What if my extremely dense breasts had earned me a referral to an actual breast clinic less than 40 minutes away, and I had had an MRI much earlier?) Well I took an ativan before it got too bad and at least I got to sleep.
I am also changing my attitude about hair and hats and wigs. I feel like i am covering up for other people's comfort, because it's uncomfortable to look at. But I am here, we are here, and this is what it looks likes. I am imagining Henna warrior tattoos and going bald with them. Maybe some warrior clothes too. What if we were an army, and not pink? We could take over Pinktober like Mad Max or something.
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reflect I'll go mad max with you! I loathe breast cancer pink!
I answered my door bald the other day. Prob freaked out my neighbor's 10 yr old wanting to play with my son!!! I really don't give a rats ass at this point. ESP when I get a hot flash I don't even want my head wrap on.
I know my husband is ok with me at home bald but in public it bothers him. He is introverted and doesn't like unnecessary attention!! So I am fine with that.
And I'm so fair I need to cover up for the sun protection.
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I am so bored with cancer. Day 17 after chemo #5 and I still feel exhausted and bad tempered, and this evening I have a high temperature again. Ughhhhh, I can't wait to finish chemo, I hate it. Hope everyone else is feeling a bit jollier than me today. X
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Reflect, yes, continuously while on AC. I was dose dense so took them the entire 14 days in between. Was the only way for me. Only took steroids 2 days, but the anti nausea was with me the entire time.
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Thanks Valstim, that info helps. I've been assuming week 2 and 3 I shouldn't need anything--wrong!
Scotbird, I get it. I am so bad tempered I don't recognize myself. My son recorded me...waiting for my husband (running late for no good reason for dd's dance performance, when it took EVERYTHING I had to get myself in the car) and I. Was. Pissed. Now we are all laughing and I have to be sure I use the bathroom before I watch it. Will try to post for a laugh, fb is blocking me now.
Haus Frau, everyone, let's Mad Max NOLA in the spring. We can do some bc awareness raising in a more...realistic way.
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Hausfrau, Reflect add me to the MAD MAX NOLA. I hate pink. All of it.
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30 years of marriage, 12 weeks of AC. Grouchy mommy.
https://www.facebook.com/btworth/videos/1015397426...
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Registration now open for MAD MAX NOLA. Let me know if next spring doesn't work:) Nolagirl, any ideas where we might stay? Camp at Ponchatrain, lol?
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I thought I was the only big Non Pink one! Totally not into the pink here either! It's almost like this happened to make me more of a girly girl! Not happening
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no pink here.
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Happy Belated Mother's Day to you all! Now ladies, I LOVE PINK!!! I just don't choose to wear it on everything. LOL October is my birth month, so its pink all day, though green is my favorite color.
ALRIGHT - are you ready for some BIG NEWS??? - #5 Treatment was pretty much smooth sailing!! NO SH*T!! If this is how Chemo was suppose to be, then I could handle it. Manageable fatigue, few stomach pains, blurred vision, but other than that, NOTHIN! WOW~ Bring on #6. I will ask them to dose reduce and keep out that Perjeta again..
I believe that God said ~ we need to give this lady a break
So Close ladies! we are so close~
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So glad to hear it's getting better towards the end for some of us! I have been sailing through on my Taxol, and then yesterday, for Mothers Day, I decided I was feeling so good, that I might as well pig out on some crawfish at my sister's boil. Needless to say...bad decision! Paying for it today...hoping it doesn't interfere with my last Taxol on Thursday!
Reflect, I couldn't open your link :-(
Re: MAD MAX NOLA...all kinds of awesome places to stay! If we want to stay true to the Mad Max theme, we can stay at a fishing camp on Bayou Lafitte! Or, if we want to play like dainty Think Pink ladies, we could stay at the Monteleone in the Quarter! Or could stay somewhere in the middle. ...lots of role playing allowed down here 💕
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MAD MAX NOLA, I think I am in for the NOLA party! Being in the Hotel Business, I may be able to hook us up as well! I need to get some release from all this...We are building a property in NOLA but it has not been made public yet - not sure when it will open, but sounds like a girls trip to me!
NOLA - love crawfish but don't envy your sickness - not having SUSHI for the past 5 months is killing me..
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I will have over 4 weeks vacation when I finish this! I usually do 2 weeks in Puerto Vallarta every January. This past January was tougher because I was waiting on my results. Definitely looking forward to getting away somewhere! At least there is time between Hercepton doses for those of us doing that!
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