January 2013 chemo group
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Bryona - you look fan-friggin-tabulous!! You look so good I had to make up a word to describe it!
Shannon - I feel your pain on the results. I have no words of wisdom. Just sending you hugs. -
Uuuggghhhh! Just got booked for what may be the worst test ever! ultrasound on pelvic, spleen, abdomen and trans-vag- yetch! WFT is THAT? An INTERNAL ultrasound! Had to open my big frigging mouth and say i wanted my ovaries checked, didn't i??? WTF was i thinking??? no good can come of a test called trans-vag! As if it isn't bad enough i've been poked, prodded, biopsied, cut, dissected, felt up by a million strangers, had pics taken of every inch of me by a crap-load of whacky machines, injected with enough dye and radioactive crap to power a city, now trans-vag. God it sucks to be me some days.
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Aw Shannon. I think I'd rather have the trans vag than the radioactive crap
. But I wonder if it's like what I had when I was very newly pregnant. If so, it's just odd, but not painful. -
Bryona, I have to concur with the group - you do look great! I wish you could have kept the mohawk up for awhile - you could really rock that!
I finished round 2 of my 4 TCs yesterday - yeah halfway there! I feel good today, a little tired but was still able to work out this morning...I jsut don't seem to get the steroid high others do, so my closet cleaning will have to wait once again LOL. I am also bummed to report my AC vinegar remedy did not help me keep my taste buds working, everything is back to tasting yucky today so I'll continue to explore yummy things to see what I can tolerate.
Amrdbit, I too was chilled yesterday during tx, and then headed out in my cap after to about 8 degrees just to add insult to injury. But I agree, hair is hanging in there. LOL about the brazilizan too - maybe we should show those off in public to take the focus away from our heads
. Nancy - so good to see you posting back among us, I hope you are doing well.
Mandy - I will be praying all goes well for you next week! I did share your story with my MO and nurses who were pushing me for a port and they understood my fean and agreed we can try some creative measures to work on the veins since I only have 2 more sessions...used a hot pad yesterday and a vein popped up that worked so here's hoping. It sounds like you will be in great hands for your next procedure and with a little Xanax and support from us here you will do fine!
Looking forward to relaxing this weekend and catching up on some TiVo. Thanks to those for posting the inspiring song lyrics, I now have a couple of new ideas for my iPod.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, with lots of rest and no SEs! ((HUGS))
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Hi Bryona, next chemo is on Feb 5...four days to enjoy before hell again. Worries about constipation are at the forefront of my mind, but I am better prepared. I am fortified with stool softeners, MOM before and after treatment, prunes and fiber.
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Shannon - Mandy is right the trans-vag isn't bad. I have fibroids so I've had a few of these done...he worst part is that you have to drink a fair amount of water before and then there's a short US first where it's a bit uncomfortable because your bladder is full...then you get to pee and come back and finish the test. Word of caution -the first time I had one the tech pulled out this maybe 10-12 inch wand thing and put a condom on it - definitely a WTF moment...i think she saw the look of panic on my face and told me not to worry they only put it in a few inches...whew! I hope you'll find it's not too bad...certianly much easier than anything you've been through, and then you'll know how your ovaries are doing. Good luck!
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Today's day 3 for this AC cycle, and so far it isn't quite as bad as last time. I'm tired, but so far not nearly as foggy. And if I suddenly disappear from the boards tomorrow, you'll all know I spoke too soon...
Shannon, I had a trans-vag a few years ago, and it was weird but not a big deal. I think right now I'd definitely take it as a nice change: a test/scan that doesn't involve me injesting or being shot up with anything!
Deb, I hope the hair hangs on, and I'm glad you had lovely company. I have to admit that I've been sending EVERYONE away. I just can't do the entertaining thing, and I feel like I must, even with my best friend and my sister. The only way I can rest is if I'm alone. So, yeah -- no company for me until next week.
Mandy, how are you feeling, sweet pea? How are you recovering from your holy-cow-that-should-never-have-happened?
Everyone, thanks for all the positive comments about my buzz. You make me feel like a rock star!
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I've been sleeping my ass off the last two days. My drs appt was fast this morning. My PCP hasen't seen me since this whole mess started. It's been all OB/GYN, surgeons and MO. He wanted to help me fill out paperwork for SSDI. Hopefully, that will provide something extra so I can take full-time off the table for a bit. If not, its back to work sooner than I had hoped. Anyway, I am getting really good using my elbows to push buttons in elevators and handicap doors. If I'm lucky enough to look pathetic enough, some poor soul opens the door for me. I even made them put me in a room right away to minimize exposure to other people.
So, this round is different than the last. The SEs are still manageable but I was caught off guard that they were stronger. Stronger emotions, extreme fatigue, etc... thank god there was no sickness. I would have been like the girl on the exorcist.
Bryona- Love the buzz. (and the mohawk)
Zorina- I too liked my hair being really short. wow is it easy in the morning.
smethot- I thought I had no verbal filter. LOL Love it and that pug in glasses. Who the hell invented the trans-vag US??? Whats wrong with that person, perv.
Hope everyone is doing well.
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Paula, thanks for the tip. I kept wondering about using conditioner. Didn't know whether all the treatment to "nothingness" would clog the pores.
Shannon, they would totally be more agressive if they thought it could possibly be anything more. Here is a friend with some extra milkbones for sanity.
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Shannon, you f@cking crack me up ". . . felt up by a million strangers, had pics taken of every inch of me by a crap-load of whacky machines, injected with enough dye and radioactive crap to power a city, now trans-vag." I'm sitting in my little, quiet corner of work and people on the other side of the barricade boxes must think I've lost it for good saying "Oh finally, we expected her to crack any minute". I think the toughest part for everyone is looking at us and saying, well other than wearing some skinhead shit she looks pretty normal. And some are probably even wondering if I shaved my head just for sympathy because I still have eyebrows. Can't wait for someone to ask. Come on, I dare ya! Then I can grotesquely que them into the fact that the carpet and drapes are all gone-gone, but the furnishings were somehow left intact.
Bryona are you still making a go of the fasting through treatments? That was you that was going to give it a shot weren't you? If not I will blame it on delayed chemo brain fog.
Here's to all killing off cellular insurgents this week:
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O.K. Sorry about the length of this post. I've noticed that I've started feeling quite selfish and self-centered in my posts - they're usually all about me and my problems and I don't seem to speak out to others who are sharing this journey with me. So, here goes. I made it through page 27 and this is what I've got to say so far:
LeeA, my probiotic is a silly children’s chewable one. Seems like a lot of post radiation Hodgkin’s survivors have problems swallowing pills. It’s TruNature Chewable Probiotic 1.5 billion active cultures. It’s supposed to grape flavored, but I taste a little bit of chocolate flavor there as well. I like them. Can I actually offer proof that they’ve kept away all the GI issues? No, but with my own history of pretty bad GERD where I was actually taking two pills a day, I can’t believe how infrequently I’ve had to take the GERD meds. On top of that, my MO has me on prophylactic antibiotics. The panel of physicians at University of Chicago who discuss the unusual or complicated cases like mine suggested that I take Levoquin the entire 12 weeks of chemo. The MO disagreed and put me on antibiotics for a five day period of each cycle starting on day six. You’d think that would mess with my GI tract and it hasn’t. Also, I was reading all the posts from day one and saw your links to the info on the HER2 positive issue and that BCSCs can be positive, while the tumor appears negative. I’m taking these articles with me to my MO on Thursday.
That protein drink is called Premier Protein. I think it’s awesome that I can drink 30 grams of protein AND it counts towards my fluid intake!
ColleenKelly, prayers for you as you face your treatment. The build up to it seems to be worse than the actual event.
Skigirl72, I can’t say enough how darn cute you look! My Premier Protein drink has only, wait for it, 1 gram of sugar, and 3 grams of fiber.
Watta, I’m sorry you’re nervous about the Ki score and low ER+ score. I think the reason they give multiple chemo agents is because some are specific to the division stages of the cells where others are nonspecific and attack at all times in a cell’s life. Remember, even slow growing cells need fuel so they DO have a metabolism. It’s that metabolism that causes those cells to take up the chemo. Decaf black tea is supposed to be very good for lung health. Decaf green tea is also very good for lung health. I agree 100% about Phil Philips’ song. Love it. We SHOULD vote it our song.
Amrdbit, I know this is an old topic, but I was going through the posts from beginning to end and I saw your post about trying to get your chemo records for the Hodgkin’s treatment. My Hodgkin’s MO is still in practice in the same darn location. Plus I was hospitalized quite a bit with fevers and really low counts, so the hospital records had some of the chemo regimen. I was started on ChlVPP (Chlorambucil, Vinblastine, procarbazine and prednisolone) and then switched after three treatments to an experimental one that originated out of the University of Iowa. I had no idea I had an experimental treatment until my BC MO talked to my Hodgkin’s MO! But, it must of worked.
Bryona, in one of your posts you mentioned fat donors. For reconstruction if you’d have had a mastectomy? Do they do that out in Seattle or did I miss the joke?
Skimommi, I brought copies of the labels of all my vitamins to my MO, who is also a professor at University of Chicago Medical School and a molecular biologist. She said everything I had, multi-vitamins, 1000 mg C, 2000 mg D3, Omega 3 with DHA, B12, CoQ10, probiotic and magnesium, zinc, calcium with D3 supplement were all fine to take. I had read that the magnesium might help prevent or minimize neuropathy from the Taxotere.
Hope49, thanks for the link for the hypnosis/imagery at Kaiser. I bookmarked the page.
Ziffy, SO glad the “things” in the lungs turned out to be nothing!
LeeA and Sandra60, wish you were still in this area. I keep looking for a sister in my area.
Russell33, I think that Neulasta shot has a lot to do with that crap ass feeling. I read that the Neulasta acts like a protein in our bodies that stimulates the production of WBCs. I ended up stimulating to the point that 11 days after the injection I had 22,000 WBCs. It came with a low grade fever, extreme tiredness, extreme lack of appetite or desire to drink virtually anything. My MO is going to give me half the dose this time around. Also, it takes energy for your body to produce those cells.
ColleenKelly, when I went through Hodgkin’s chemo at the age of 26, I lost all of my hair. I did have gray hair back then, too. Runs in the family. When my hair grew back there was nary a gray hair to be seen for several years if that’s any consolation.
Sandra60, I hope you’re taking the core out of the apple first. The seeds contain cyanide. Just in case. Also those liver enzymes you said were high – I think Xanax and those anxiety drugs do that temporarily.
Humidity issues – my mom has been keeping an electric crock pot filled with water on low setting in her bedroom at night in the winter for the past few years and says it works better than a humidifier and lots less parts to clean and less lots parts to worry about mold, fungi and bacteria.
Finally, again, for LeeA, I took those articles about the HER2 positive breast cancer stem cells to my MO, who is also a molecular biologist. She told me that those studies covered only patients who had no other positive receptor status'es like ER positive or progesterone positive. And that they don't find any or they find very few HER2 positive, CD44 high and CD24 low or negative breast cancer stem cells in ER positive tumors. I had both tests for HER status and both came back negative I think. She may have said weakly positive, but again the ER positive and PR positive seems to trump the possibility of the HER2 stem cell positivity. I am somewhat relieved, but not entirely sure I'm 100% confident.
I'll probably be back on in a few days catching up and writing another long winded message. Love you and prayers to you all.
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Hello to all! I have been reading this board from the sidelines for about a week and feel like it is time to join in! I'm twenty five and was diagnosed three months ago today. Just reading all of your posts helps me to realize I am not alone in all of this. I have done tx 1 and will have my second one next Friday. I will be HALFWAY through AC which my MO says will be the hardest of treatments!
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Does anyone know if vicodine is an approved drug while on chemo?
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@ out. I'm the one with all those posts telling you how scared I am. When my mo came jn and said we are stating feb 7 started panicking. I honestly want to cancel that's how scared I am.
I have to have 4 treatment of tc. How is tc???
I'm so worried!!!'n
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Chgogemini- the actual part of getting the chemo I found to be really no big deal. I had a little bit of sinus burning and that was it. I had my first one on 1/28 and I threw up that morning from nerves. When I got back to the room where I was going to get the chemo I started crying. I was so scared. The nurse was very kind and the whole experience was a lot easier than I had thought it would be. I suffer from extreme anxiety disorder and I made it through. You can too. Get some anti anxiety meds from your doctor to calm you. You can do this! Hugs, Colleen
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Hi, I had my first chemo yesterday, the 31st, so I guess just made it for this group! (This is my first time ever on a discussion board.) I enjoy reading how encouraging everyone is. I noticed that many people have their diagnosis at the bottom - where do I enter that info? I look forward to meeting you ...
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Ciao, Bellas...I'm home!!!!
Whew...what a rock 'n Roll ride that first tx was, huh? Thanks for all the prayers and good wishes...I felt each and every one of them.
So...what the heck happened to me, you ask. It was a perfect storm of What the What?? First chemo was a breeze, I had taken all of my meds as prescribed, got the Neulasta hot the following day still no big deal. Next day I was meh...coming off 'roids, had a wee bit of a queezy tummy but no definite complaints. Then came Saturday morning...WHAM! I woke up with only one thought...EPIDURAL. The pain was unreal...then came the vomiting and horrible diarrhea. I was home alone as I had insited to my DH that I would be fine if he went into work for a few hours...he came home to me hallucinating, begging for an epidural and out of it. What went wrong? I am not as good a hydrator as I thought I was...I was drinking a lot of ginger ale for my stomach and it doesn't count. The Neulasta does along with the Taxotere dose were too high...no one's fault. I'm a hefty honey and got the hefty honey dose...I may be fluffy but I need lower doses. Once you get dehydrated you can't rehydrate yourself. As it was the weekend my husband was talking to residents who didn't really hear what he was telling them re: my fever and symptoms. I did end up in the hospital for 4 days...I ended up falling at home and was incoherent. I don't remember most of the week...though I do know it was the most emotionallly/physically taxing week of my almost 60 years. I have been both chortling and being chagrinned at my FB posts...I sounded like a lunatic. But I was...I have been home for a week and am still weak. Saw my onco on Wednesday and was ready to tell her "I'm done...can't do it...going to take my chances". She did listen (bless her heart) and then gave me a possible new game plan. No more Neulasta (Hell to the Yeah!!!) and a 20% reduction in the cocktail. Also at least another 10 day break to get my numbers back up. I can do this...instead of the Neulasta I will be protein loading for 4 days before and 4 days after treatment. Lots of steak (darn ;-) ) good dark green veggies, salmon and chicken. I will have to stay home more than if I had the shot..not to worry, it's cold out. I am changing my chemo day (note to Bryona!!) to Monday so that I can go in on both THursday and Friday for fluids. At this time I should be back at the bar on the 2/18.
I also am so tickled that I get to be in a focus group for the first "chemo brain rehab" my hospital got a grant for recently. It will be run by yhe p.t. department so maybe I'll get a free massage or two?? :-)
All this being said...I was a total and complete anomoly. You lovelies are not going to get as sick as I did...like I said, I had some serious allergic reaction along with not being a good hydrator...so I took the bullet for you all so the rest of you go this hangs down
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Hair shedding is happening and I am weirdly fascinated by it. A friend is coming over tomorrow to do the 'do for me. I am going to make 3 braids to have her cut them off before we begin...not sure why but I'm doing it.
To my Secret Society Sister...you lovely warrior goddesses...mwahhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Our Secret Society has spots for all of you...get on Facebook and friend Debbie or myself (Nancy Prior Phillips) and we will teach you the secret handshake to get it. It is totally safe and protected...so we can post our pictures etc. Deb posted a recipe for ginger ale that is so so so good!! I even heated some up today and drank it warm yum!!!
I love you all...and count you as sisters and daughters...
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Hi Rilori, sorry to see you have to be here, but welcome. If you go to the top of this page you can hit profile. you will see different subjects come up and one is treatments. click on that and you can put your info in. Colleen
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Bryona - I am actually doing quite well. Today, I feel great. My energy is pretty good. My pain is tolerable. I'm alive, my children are beautiful, my husband is my BFF, my family rocks...life is good.
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Welcome back Nanc! So happy that you are well again.
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Welcome home, Nanc! And welcome to this wonderful community ANoel and rilori!
rilori, to add your diagnosis and treatment info to your posts, click on My Profile at the top of any page, then fill in the info you want to share in the My Diagnoses and My Treatments tabs, and Save to have your details appear on every post you make after you've added them.
You can add a quote or link to your personal blog and so from the Settings tab, by including it in your Signature.
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Welcome home nanc!
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Hi everyone, here is my latest update to my MRI - what do you all think? Especially those who are TNBC weigh in!!
I had mammo/us in October to get clarificiation on a small scar tissue area at base of right implant - location is important and this was near or at original tumor location. Findings were not suspicious but not conclusive, they recommended 6-month follow up. I waited 4 months, and last week had MRI (both traditional MRI and the new Diffusion MRI). The MRI report says: "no findings to suggest malignancy", but was given the birads 3 and follow up with initial short-interval ultrasound.
I've already got a call in to my PS to conference with my BS, and go ahead and get me into surgery and get this out. From a discussion in December, PS thinks it is scar tissue from when he had to adjust my right breast downward or possibility that the sling folder over, but since I was dx'd with TNBC, I have requested going for surgery again to settle this once and for all. The nurse at the PS office, completely understood my request, as she brought up that TNBC patients have less options, so lets minimize any and all posibilities.
What do you all think? Have any of you had any experience with a birads 3? I've never heard the term until last week!
Thank you for your insight and help!
- Scar tissue post-mastectomy, MRI birads 3
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Wow, it's taken me about 10-15 minutes to get caught up on everything that's been posted since late last night!
First off, Nancy, what a week or two you've had! The falling down/incoherent episode must have been really frightening for you and your husband/family. Re: protein - at the risk of sounding like a broken record (or maybe I haven't gone on about it on this thread) - Greek yogurt is a great way to pack in the protein. I've read that we need 100 grams of protein a day to rebuild our bodies from the ravages of chemo. One cup of Fage (my favorite) Greek yogurt (0% fat) has 23 g of protein!! I mix it with just a little bit of Trader Joe's fresh-squeezed orange juice and at least to me - it's delicious. Costco sells the large containers and one of those large containers is about 100 g of protein. I'm fairly certain there are days when I'm consuming the equivalent of one of those large containers (one container runs into the next - it seems like I'm always opening another one). I've heard of people using other tricks to mix it up a bit, i.e. peanut butter powder (?) but for me - the trick is the TJ's orange juice. I asked the integrative physician at the Disney Cancer Center about it and she gave the green light on it. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that the Fage Greek Yogurt/orange juice combination has been the #1 must have to get me through chemo - especially this last round. Anyway, here's to your continued recovery!
smethot - Node the Enlarged! Oh my, you are a brilliant coiner (new word) of expressions! Unlike Bryona's visual of Captain Underpants, I'm conjuring up a Vlad the Impaler type - standing ready to kill any stray cancer cells that come his way. I wish I could think of something to write that would make your brain turn off but I have a feeling your brain is kind of like mine in that it's going to take some time for you to be okay with what the doctors said. When I got the call regarding my scan being okay I mulled over that word "okay" until I made myself half crazy (which is a lot of crazy, considering my normal state of mind). I wanted my husband to call and confirm that "okay" meant okay (he refused, by the way - which is what a normal person with normal thought patterns would do!). I think NTL is doing exactly what he is meant to do (as so many others have mentioned).
rilori - welcome!
chgogemini - are you referring to carboplatin/taxotere or cytotoxan/taxotere or taxol and one of those aforementioned C words? FWIW, I'm on carboplatin/taxotere with a side of Herceptin thrown in. Whatever your cocktail is - just make sure to take your anti-nausea meds as directed and don't get behind on them the first few days in particular. That's what I was told repeatedly. And, keep a dose of it in a little container in your purse in case you would be out somewhere and not make it home in time for your next dose! Here in California I'm always envisioning apocalyptic scenarios (i.e. 10.0 mag earthquake between wherever I am and the anti-nausea med). I'll echo what almost everyone here says: it is doable and you will do fine.
ColleenKelley - I'm not a doctor nor do I play one on the internet (which translates to "you should probably not listen to what I say and call your oncologist") but here's what the oncology nurse said to me after the Neulasta shot. She said "start with Tylenol first but if it gets too bad you can ramp it up." I replied "with leftover Vicodin from my surgery" and she said "yes." FWIW, I didn't need it. I took Claritin a few days before and about 5 days following and only took a few Tylenols in the days following.
ANoel5 - Welcome and big congratulations on being halfway throught! Woo hoo!
Oliverhog - thanks for the info about the probiotic. I must have inquired about it while I was in post treatment 2 chemo fog. I take Natren Healthy Trinity and when I finish up with the current bottle I'm going to get the one the integrative physician highly recommends. The pharmacy in the Disney Center carries it and they were out of it when I checked about a week ago. If I didn't say so before, you look great with your new haircut/buzz whatever we're calling it around here.
Skimommi, I love the green blob looking thing being poked by the stick figure.
Skigirl, I, too am an elbow elevator navigator. I'm also a long-sleeve door knob turner, a bee-liner away from sneezers, etc. I hope you start feeling better a.s.a.p.
smethot (again) - re: trans-vag - even though it sounds ultra-creepy or like an ocean liner cruise - I think I had one way back when as part of a fibroid diagnosis and it wasn't all that bad. This was years ago and being OCD - I would have still been obsessing over it if it was too awfully bad.
Bryona, crossing my fingers that this one (treatment) continues on as it has with no sudden surprises! I showed my husband your photo last night and he said "niiiiiice!"
Paula, that Tom Petty song was one of my fight songs years ago when I had to go to Washington to fight for something over work. It's a keeper!
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Nancy, my dear lady so glad to see you back and sounding more like yourself. What a ride! I wouldn't have wished you to take this the bullet on this for us, but I will take it "hangs down" for sure (love that saying) - although they will hang no more! :O0
rilori and ANoel5, Ciao Bellas! Glad you found us, but so sorry you have to be here.
chgogemini honey, please don't be frightened. You will see once you get there and do that thing it is really no big deal. It isn't like being ran over by a big truck, which is what I think most of us imagine at the thought of it. And ask for Ativan or something else for your nerves - NOW!
It will help you get through the next week. You've got this, and we have your back!Hahahaha, LMAO when I saw the Mods my mind immediately shifted to one of "Oh yes, we are behaving {{badly}}". I was taken back to those teen years when you have all your GF's over for a sleepover and your mom, whom of course knows you are pure as snow and can do no wrong, walks in to find that her little angles were smoking and talking of sex. Naughty girls!
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LeeA, I have such a hard time with yogurt these days, although I love it normally. I'm so afraid that if I force it I will never be able to eat it again when this dance is done. Thinking I need to look into some of those chewable kind OliverHog mentioned. I'm getting to the point too that I can't stand to swallow more pills. :{
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Debra, re: Bi-Rads - after my mammogram/ultrasound my left breast was referred to as Bi-Rads IV (4).
I think the Bi-Rads scores go from either 0-5 or from 1-5. In 2003 - with BC Scare #2 or #3 I ended up being Bi-Rads II (2) after a suspicious area had been confirmed to be a cyst.
Here's a link explaining the Bi-Rads information. This particular link gives the following explanation for Bi-Rads III (3):
3-probably benign
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Skimommi, I've been the same way and was very concerned that I wouldn't like it but it hasn't happened yet. I hope it doesn't because I intend to go back to my 17-Day Diet type of eating in May and since I've had to give up my former favorite breakfast (a Zone bar - too much soy protein) I'm going to need to rely on Greek yogurt more than ever.
Re: swallowing pills - I'll tell you what got to me during Round 1 - chewable Zofran. Ugh, ugh UGH! I finally called the oncologist's office and asked for the swallowable. The thought of chewing the Zofran actually contributed to my queasiness after a couple of days. Oh, and then I bought some Skinny Cow mint ice cream bars and those damn things reminded me of the Zofran! Arghh! The taste thing is so weird. Does it ever go away for you between cycles? I'm not so sure that mine is a taste change (this may change with the next treatment, who knows) but it's more of a "nothing sounds appetizing but I know I should eat something." Then starts the laundry list of what MIGHT sound good... This sure does remind me of my one pregnancy - that's all I can say.
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Hi Deb...
A bi-rad3 means basically that there is the lowest risk of malignancy, ...instead of a full blown surgery, would the PS do the biopsy..it takes about 10 minutes, done in her office and. You will have the answer within the week...
I might consider that before a full surgery with anesthesia.....
Mine as you remember from our previous chat took minutes and she knew from looking at it as she was doing the biopsy that it was going to come back fat tissue...
The MRI is very sensative...if there was no uptake that is the most positive prediction....
Radiologists usually only use bi-rad 3 due to a patients history...almost for "their" disclaimer...
Lisa -
LeeA - how did you get the reduced score from 3 to 2? Did you have to keep going back for surveillance?
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