ONLY 27, Stage 3 BC

wwaterlilyy

Thanks a lot ladies & my beloved friends, for your responses. May God bless all of you and give you the very best in your lives.

Thankfully I am done with the AC treatment and will start TAXOL on (coming) Tuesday. I've had very bad days after getting AC treatment, I couldn't feel myself for about 6 days after each AC treatment. Do you think I will experience the same thing with TAXOL?

I would also like to hear what supplements you take to help the chemo work better and shrink tumors? Do you have any suggestions for me?

Btw, I lost all my hair and also some part of my eyebrows so do you think I will lose them completely with TAXOL treatment?

I am a Stage III cancer patient and I am extremely afraid of becoming a Stage IV patient, I want to hear what you do to prevent the cancer from spreading further???

I thank each of you for all your support and being here to let me know that I am not alone. I'll try to write more often and contact you as long as I have my energy and strength to do so.

Take care of your health and keep smiling, ladies.

Sending much love, hugs and warm greetings from NC. ~ Nil  (  :

ollie124

Hey- I have just signed up to this forum to reply to you because when I read your post I knew exactly how you felt! I am 24 and have just finished my chemotherapy.  I had the exact same feeling as you described.  It was slightly easier in the oncology centre before I lost my here as everyone assumed why I was there but were not 100% sure. After I lost my hair then it was on- the sympathy smiles you receive make you feel like a freak! All of a sudden you become a novelty to anyone in the medical profession as you are so young. I remember going to see a GP when I couldnt see my doctor one day.... he was soooooo interested in me and helping me and anything else I wanted etc etc when only three weeks before I had seen him (with hair) and he couldnt rush me out the door faster or be any less caring.  Its quite interesting to see how these things change. 

My biggest concerns now are fertility as I have not yet started a family.  Everyone keeps trying to make me feel better about my cancer by saying 'your young and strong' etc but to be honest I would have prefered to have lived my life young and strong and dealt with this when I was older.

 The best thing about being young is I think it makes you look at like diferently and value the things you do much more.  I dont think I would have had this same love of the small things if i had not been dealt this card.

I am going really well- Just radiation and tamoxifin to follow.

All the best....

TNsurvivor

Hello, I just joined the forum last week, and wished I would have discovered it back in March of last year, after being diagnosed three weeks after my 31st birthday. I had chemo before my surgery, because I wanted to have a lumpectomy and the only way that was possible was to try and shrink the 5.2cm tumor.  I had a total of 8 chemo treatments all followed by the neulasta shot.  I had my lumpectomy on August 20th, from the mammo they took before surgery they could tell that my tumor had shrunk significantly, and after my surgery on August 27th, my onc and surgeon called and informed me after removing the tissue from my breast that no sign of cancer was present and that my lymp node had come back negative as well.  My surgeon stated that my tumor had a 100% response to chemo, and the only thing that was left was scar tissue.  So on October 12th, I began 33 treatment of RAD 5 of which were boosters.  So today I had my 3 month mammo, and everything came back grrrrreat, so far so good. 

So now I'm just trying to get back to normal as much as I can, which is occuring slowly but surely.  I believe that treatment put my body in "chemopause".  My Onc believe that it is only temporarily and I sure hope that he is correct, because I don't have any kids nor I'm I married yet, and I deeply want to start a family in the near future. 

kittycat

I was 39 when I was dx last year.  My sister was 44 and was dx 8 months before me.  No one in our family had BC this young.  I went to a Susan G Komen event a couple weeks ago.  They asked all the survivors to stand up.  I got quite a few shocked looks from the crowd.  I caught my BC early and didn't have chemo (a bliateral mastectomy & reconstruction).  So, I never dealt with the hair loss, which I'm grateful for, but my sister went through chemo.  I always feel odd at my onco's office - like people look at me strange for being there. 

Good look to you on your journey.  The best thing about being as young as you are is that you should heal faster! 

RusGirl

Hello! I'm 25 and I was 23 when I was dx breast cancer. I really understand your feellings...I feeled the same when I was reciving chemo.

Now I recive Lapatinib and Tamoxifen.

I''d like to talk with young women with same diagnosis. Do you think about pregnancy in future? В

Did you ask you doctor about it?

 Sorry for my english I'm from Russia=)

Cncrgrl

HIi,

I hate to say that we are all part of this special club.  You are younger than me but I know what you are going through.  I am 33y/o and was diagnosed last month and just recently went through surgery.  My next stop on the Ca train is chemo and I am not looking forward to it.  I have read what you are going through and my heart goes out to you.  My train is not too far behind yours.  Hang in there and we will all get through this.  Blessings