Done with rads....on to oophr

jennyboog

Finished rads yesterday, I'm so glad not to be doing that drive anymore but will miss the techs, I had a wonderful bunch of girls.  My last step is the oophr and then I'm done with tx.  Thanks girls for getting me this far.

elmcity69

Congratulations Jennifer! That is a HUGE step in treatment. I felt so good once I finished the rads.

I did an oophorectomy October 2010. Piece of cake, compared to the MXs. Mine was laparoscopic - up and around that day. And those little estrogen bombs gone!

Good luck. You're in my thoughts.

xo

Janyce

Karina121293

Good luck Jenny, I had oophr and hyster at the same time with the mastectomy, recovered nice and easy from both surgeries and don't regret and happy to know it's out of the way, I am still thru my chemo tx though, then rads. Cant wait to be done as well. What a journey!!!!! Huh!!! Hugs and the best.

Karina 

Bugs

Whoot whoot!  Congrats on finishing!  My ooph was a piece of cake (also laparscopic).  Do something nice for yourself to celebrate being done with rads!

karen1956

Congrats on finishing rads....I had my ooph done laprascopic as did Cindy....recovery was fairly easy....fatigure was the biggest issue....took a week off work......no real pain...

Fearless_One

My hyster/ooph was a cakewalk - SO much easier than my mastectomy.   Try to do it robotic/laproscopic if you can.

Pure

Yeah!!! So happy for you:) The oomph is the easy part - you shouldn't have a problem.

KiwiMum

Hi ladies

Just had to google what a ooph was. I now know and realize I am scheduled for this post chemo and rads. Seems a long way away - 8 months. I'm glad I've found this thread as it sounds like it's not as horrible as I'd imagined.



Still trying to get my head around chemo and rads. I think I'll "park" thinking about ooph for now.

KerryMac

Congrats Jenny! You're nearly there!!

I had my ooph a couple of weeks after finishing rads, had it laproscopically too, it was pretty straight forward, and I recovered pretty quickly. You should have no problems.

And you will not miss all those dr appointments! 

americanpinay

Hooray!  Congrats Jenny! Good luck with ooph.  It's not part of my treatment so no advice about that. Take care.

AnacortesGirl

Had my ooph last October.  The hardest part was waiting from 9:00 am till they finally called me in at 5:00 pm.  No eating all day!  They offered an overnight stay since it was late and we had a two hour drive home but I was more than happy to have hubby drive me home even if it was late!  It was easy and it was great to have it done because it marked the end of treatments. Good luck!

motherofpatient

talked to my daughter's onc yesterday about this - if I may ask, how old are all of you? She is 43. Doc seems a bit old school on this issue but since he even admits that AI's are better than Tamox, I don't get his hesitation. I had no issues with menopause since I had a hysterestomy at age 29 and never knew when my periods stopped - no hot flashes, maybe because I was on Prozac. What has your experience been? Seems it is safer to get them out and stop the estrogen.

jennyboog

I just turned 35, I am doing it for the ER benefit but also I'm BRCA+ & I stand a higher chance of developing ovarian cancer so, it's a kill two birds with one stone for me.  I'm on AI's and it's my understanding they are better than tamox or at least if you switch to them after a couple years of tamox.  I think also it might be how much ER+ you are, I'm 80% so I would benefit but someone who might let's say be 10% might not benefit as much and the AI"s might do the trick for them.  Not sure exactly hope you get some real answers and a dr who might be a bit younger   Take care.