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  • Just_V
    Just_V Posts: 436
    edited November 2011

    so on 7/13 I had my last period and on 7/17 I started on Tamoxifen... had hot flashes for like two months but no period (I am 51), so I figured good trade-off - no periods for two months of hot flashes, right?  So guess what - I got my damn period today - ugh!  My cute husband says 'Maybe we should have another baby then...' - NOT!  ugh. Really really thought I was done with the period thing!

  • chelsea123
    chelsea123 Posts: 4
    edited November 2011

    Hi V...Did you gain weight taking the Tamoxifin?

  • Just_V
    Just_V Posts: 436
    edited November 2011

    nope.. stayed even until my DIEP surgery and I have lost weight with that...

  • June2268
    June2268 Posts: 926
    edited November 2011

    Chabba....I am so thrilled they found nothing, WHEW!!!  I hate the worry we all have to go through, I hope you at least celebrated with some good old fashioned booze.  So so very happy right now!  Love you!

  • sgreenarch
    sgreenarch Posts: 253
    edited November 2011

    Chabba, great news!

    Sorry you have to be thinking about the mx. I had a unimx in July 2010. Haven't reconstructed yet and not sure what I'll do. I like having the luxury of not having to rush into anything. I've got good prostheses, both for regular bras and for bathing suits, and day to day life goes on. It's not easy to be assymetrical, so I can't really go braless, but I've come a long way in being ok with this new version of myself. One of the things that helps me is reminding myself that this surgery hopefully saved my life (lumpectomy was never an option for me due to positions of tumors) and I'm here, living each day, watching my kids grow up. That being said, it takes a while, and I'm still not totally there and have my down days. Losing a breast is hard, no question about it. Can't minimize the emotional impact. But these scares are also awful, and a bmx will lower your risk. I can't explain why I'm still holding on to one of mine. I had a scare last May; they found a 'something' on my MRI, turned out to be B9, but what a week of hell that was. Going for my yearly mammogram in 2 weeks (on my birthday!!!! what kind of rotten scheduling is that?) 

     Hi to everyone else. And just for the record, I'd love to know how you Ladies are losing weight on tamoxifen. I haven't gained, but I haven't lost. (Could use to lose 15 lbs.!) Oh well.

    Happy week to all, Shari

  • bcisnofun
    bcisnofun Posts: 117
    edited November 2011

    just v - too funny about the baby.  My husband would say the same thing :).  Bummer on the period.  I'm with you that it seemed that was one positive that came out of this BC business.   Not fair!

    Shari - I haven't lost weight either.   

  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Posts: 1,781
    edited November 2011

    missed an entire week of posting! to those of you who spent your first Thanksgiving without loved ones...I know you got through it....know it could not have been easy....remember all the firsts myself...you are strong women...Remind yourself that you got through it..you managed...if you can think of a new ritual to help you through Christmas/Channukah...and start planning it now, it may help a bit.

    Having a rough week...seems so up and down!....letting go of my principal job was supposed to lower my stress level and instead I am worried about the teachers who I end up replacing in the classroom since they have to give me full time teaching hours...and when I found a few other hours elsewhere to lower how many hours they had to find me, they were only going to offer me 3 teaching hours...really???I have been a full time employee at this school for 19 .5years.....seriously????and talk about tension...the guy replacing me asking me every week to go to these cursed meetings on Fridays.....sorry...I still have dr.appointments on Fridays...same ones I told you about last week and the week before! I am NOT going to these meetings

    anyhow, have to head to the gym.....see if I can actually move my back and hands...not liking Arimidex very much .

    Needless to say, I am putting in resumes other places beginning in January....

  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Posts: 1,998
    edited November 2011

    Sandee.. missed you.. hugs to you!!!

  • sunangel27
    sunangel27 Posts: 234
    edited November 2011

    Hugs Sandy!!    Hope all will work out ok for you !!!!!

  • June2268
    June2268 Posts: 926
    edited November 2011

    Sandee I missed you!! Praying everything will work out for you as you are a bright and talented lady.  I am sure when you do apply for jobs, you won't have a hard time getting one.  Thinking of you and sending hugs your way!

  • tinkertude
    tinkertude Posts: 1,998
    edited November 2011

    Happy Birthday Junieeeee B!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Posts: 1,781
    edited November 2011

    All hugs received and appreciated...you folks are quite a supportive group!...and I am grateful...I realize that I am probably just starting to get angry about all this now...would rather tnot be angry and just carry on but maybe I have to get angry to move on..who the hell knows....not me, that is for sure. Thanks for the pep talk June....and on your birthdat too! I hope the year is simple....full of love and light and gentle things....find a new adventure with only positive outcomes! Hapy day!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Posts: 7,545
    edited November 2011

    June!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE

                             

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Posts: 1,572
    edited November 2011

    Happy Birthday June!!!  Heres a pillow just for you!!!!

  • odie16
    odie16 Posts: 1,415
    edited November 2011

    Kay1963 - Thanks for the response. Doing better if I take it with a toast or crackers by itselfs just before bed so any issues occur while I am sleeping (at least until the night sweat attacks)...lol

    June - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! Hope you were spoiled well today..... HUGS!!!

    And to all my other Tammi friends, WHACK!!!

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Posts: 1,572
    edited November 2011

    Oh odie you have started it now.  My cable is out and I am bored so look out now, hee hee hee!

  • odie16
    odie16 Posts: 1,415
    edited November 2011

    Paula,

    A good pillow fight among friends is soooo much better than the crap on cable anyway!! 

    WHACK, WHACK, WHACK!! 

    (with love of course Tongue out) 

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Posts: 1,572
    edited November 2011

    Oh yes it is, lol!!!!

    WWWWWWWWWhack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Posts: 4,503
    edited November 2011

    JUne Happy Birthday girl, hope it has been a good one!!!

    Sandee hope everything works out for you and sometimes it is time to move on.  You never know what great things are waiting for you out there.

  • swanseagirl
    swanseagirl Posts: 171
    edited November 2011

    OMG I can't believe I have been off this thread since September. Shame on me.

    Well have been in the UK for a month and tghen recently had biopsy for bone mets.

    Still on Tammy so I am staying on this train. Hi to my old tammy friends and hello to the new ones.

    Hugs xxxx

    Jules

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Posts: 1,572
    edited November 2011

    welcome back Jules XOXOXOX

  • chabba
    chabba Posts: 3,600
    edited November 2011

    Jules, It is so good to see you back.  Been worried about you.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Posts: 7,545
    edited November 2011

    Welcome back Jules!  So glad to see you again.

    Paula - Don't look now - WHACKKKKKKKKKKKKK! 

  • June2268
    June2268 Posts: 926
    edited November 2011

    Thanks ladies for the birthday wishes and it was a fantastic day especially with Jo and Paula making me yummy cakes and all.....Paula thinks cause hers is a pillow I will back away and not stick my face in it.  But you know what I say "lets get this party started"  so yes I dove right into that pillow I am not afraid Paula......he he he

    Hi Jules, miss you!!!

  • juliet62
    juliet62 Posts: 3,246
    edited November 2011

    hi jules hope you enjoyed sunny wales! 

  • sunangel27
    sunangel27 Posts: 234
    edited November 2011

    A question was brought up to me by the surgeon the other day and I have been searching and searching for an answer and can't find it! Hopefully someone here knows, or at least knows where I can find it????

    He asked me when  I had my lumpectomy if they ever checked my lymph glands?? They found three spots on my left breast, they did a biopsy on all three of them at once on 12/9/10  Then did the excirsion on 12/22/10. No where am I finding on my path report, sergical report or anywhere else that they checked my lymph glands.   MY QUESTION:.......... DO they check your lymph glands when they just find LCIS and Atypical Hyperplasia?  I am confused. I would think they check them........           
    When I went to him the other day he said he felt a large lump under my arm......since then I have felt and felt and I feel it and another one a bit smaller........I am a little scared!!!

  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Posts: 1,914
    edited November 2011

    I don't know the answer Paula, but hang in there. I hope your lump is benign. I had a large lymph node under my arm that I could feel. I had neoadjuvant chemo and it cleared the cancer up in it. Hoping for b9 results for you.

  • sunangel27
    sunangel27 Posts: 234
    edited November 2011

    Thank you Kay..........I am just a basket case this mornin'............ oy! :(

    All I am doin' is crying......woke up that way,and hoping it will go away soon!!

    I am not a whinner!

    I will hang in there.....and be strong and fight, just right now.....guess it is a "I'm tired"......feeling this morning......maybe I should go back to bed and get up on the right side???? hehee

  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Posts: 1,914
    edited November 2011

    I have those days too. I highly recommend a good cry! You are in my thoughts.

  • ckbfm
    ckbfm Posts: 4
    edited November 2011
    Hi! I haven't been on the website in a long time but I'm wondering if anyone else has had any eye problems while taking tamoxifen. I started on tamoxifen in Jan 2010 & noticed that summer that I was having blurry vision intermittently (while reading) in the left eye. I thought that my glasses were either on crooked some of the time or that I needed a new prescription.  However, it's now been 1 1/2 yrs & the ophthalmologists have no answer other than to try drops for dry eye which has not cured the problem. I'm thinking of asking the oncologist to switch me to something else.

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