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  • janinnj
    janinnj Member Posts: 89
    edited July 2011

    I'm pretty new here and it always opens at the last post I read.

    Paula66-When did you finish Chemo?  I had my last treatment 06/23/11 and have about a 1/2 inch of hair but it is so fine and white you can't even hardly see it.  I am so tired of this wig.  Hoping all goes well with your exchange.

    YaYa5- One of my favorite sayings I read somewhere on these boards is "You don't have to be brave, you just have to show up"  I am 57 and have always been healthy so all of this was new to me also.  I'm not saying chemo was easy but with a very caring Oncologist I made it through without too much angst.

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  • jenn3
    jenn3 Member Posts: 3,316
    edited July 2011

    I only have problems with this thread on any computer.  I open @ page 12, the page with the cartoonish blue bird eating a worm.

    Jenn

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2011

    OG56's 'twinges' comment is the top of page 41. I've read it so many times.....sigh. I've tried everything!!! Does it on any computer I use. Stops me from coming back as often as I would normally.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011

    If you have not previously PMed the mods about our glitch, feel free to let them know it is happening to you too.  I don't know that they can tell otherwise, since it is not doing everyone the same way.

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited July 2011

    I actually start out at whatever page I last read or posted on. So I'm not complaining! What I would like to know is how to get this thread to be the one that is my "favorite" favorite topic that opens first when I open to the DB's. Do I delete all my favs and then add them back in a different order? 

    Tomorrow I go in for a 3 month f/u TVUS on an ovarian growth that my gyn onc has been watching and waiting on since last August.  Counting on hearing that its not grown, and that my 3 months of Tamox have not affected it. A girl can only hope!!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011
    Even after all my time here, I am not sure how to do what you are asking cmb, but it seems like someone else here has theirs set up that way.  I just sign in and go to My Home where all my favorite threads are and go in from there.
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  • Kleenex
    Kleenex Member Posts: 764
    edited July 2011

    Another thing I notice about the page I open to: it's the one full of happy comments about having our own Forum at last. Prior to that, we were tucked into another section. So despite being "page 42," it's really "page 1" for when this thread moved into a new Forum. Possibly that could help the moderators figure out what's happening. For some of us, we're opening up at "the beginning" of this thread under new management, if that makes sense.

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011
    Janinnj I finish chemo 06/13/11.  I had a few straglers that never fell out.  They were the gray one.  My dark hair has come on very fast.  In this last week I have gottn to were I can see it real well.  Now the hairs on my chin coulda stayed away.  I wont have a problem with that.  Hang in there and you will have a new do by Christmas too!  About 3 weeks ago I said the heck with it and I dont cover my head anymore.  I took my hats and scarves off and have never felt so free. 
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  • walker2222
    walker2222 Member Posts: 558
    edited July 2011

    Yaya welcome glad your scan went well, compared to an MRT, PET scan was easy just room was darn cold. Are you from the City? My DH is an Oky boy from Warr Acres in Ok City.



    Over all my experiences last year were not bad as I have a great BS, MO and RO. Jury is still out on the PS will need lots of answers on Wed.



    I have not had the page problems some of have had. Hope I haven't just cursed myself.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited July 2011

    Since I have to relocate everytime I come on this page, I am responding to Reesies suggestion as soon as I read it.  I also have cleared the cache and cookies even used a different computer and still have this problem.  This is the only thread that has this issue.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited July 2011

    I consider myself one of the oldies here since I joined this thread within 3 weeks of its beginning.  Maybe it's like an old record when it has been played too much it begins to skip.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2011

    Kleenex, very good point!!! It's the page where elimar thanks the mods!! For me though, that's page 41.

    Claire, the Favourites appear in the order of which one got a new post. There's no way to play with that part.

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited July 2011

    Don't you just hate that Meece?  And when you listen to the same song on the radio, you expect the skip and it doesn't happen?

    janinnj and Paula66 now that my hair is growing back everyone keeps telling me I should keep it short, they like it this way.  I can't wait until August - I'm expecting a growth spurt after surgery (no more chemo then) and then I can get rid of the gray again. Wink

    I think Kleenex may be on to something if page 42 is where the page was when "adjustments" were made to the thread.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited July 2011

    That may be the ticket!  I even tried a brand new browser today and it still did it.  Back to using Firefox since that browser doesn't seem to be the issue.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011

    I like Kleenex's theory, BUT (big butt) our newer jenn3 goes to page 12.  Strange.

    My other theory (and you knew I would have to have one) is that all who are going to page 42 could have been active on this thread the day the trouble began, and maybe they were working on it, so we got locked into that glitch.  Can't remember exact day this all started, tho'.  It doesn't explain those who jump to another page, unless they were posting at a time when the techs were briefly working on this thread and they got "captured" separately.

    It's probably more like something in how our computers operate, but I am not techie enough to figure that out.

    p.s. Barbe, I have been saying page 42 all this time, but it is page 41 for me also, so when I say 42, I mean 41. (My brain latched onto 42 because of it's significance in the book The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, I just know it.)

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2011

    Hmmm, on my computer, the mods locked us in on page 41. Right now we are on page 422. We know that because the number is black. When I log on to this thread, page 41 is black.....

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011

    I had to laugh again this morning, as Paula66 brought up chin hairs.  Where else but the Mid-Age thread can you find that!   Here are women who share their dismay as we lose our estrogen and just watch in horror as the random wiskers sprout.  You don't get that in just any old thread.  All I can say is the tweezers are a wonderful invention.

    mjb,  Hope your talk with PS tomorrow is positive and productive.  Let us know.

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    Eli - I have had "chin hairs" for many years.  I have done waxing, tweezers - Ouch! to all.  Now I just run a razor across them.  You are right, no where else can you talk about such things.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited July 2011

    tweezers? Hell, I am heading to laser hair removal. My eyesight is so bad I can't see them anymore.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011
    BarbA,  I have to use a magnifying mirror.  I holding off the laser removal til I sprout a few more...so the cheapskate in me can feel like I will be getting my money's worth.
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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited July 2011

    I don't have the chin hairs yet but I have said when I do get them it will be laser hair removal for me.

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  • kal_1865
    kal_1865 Member Posts: 176
    edited July 2011

    ok, for those of us that are taking our AI's and now have the increased "sprouting" - does insurance cover the laser hair removal--hah?

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited July 2011

    Worth a try but I seriously doubt it unless you can get your PCP to come up with a 'medical necessity' reson.

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    kal-1865  I wish they would.  I have had a few of them for sometime now.  But since I had my regrowth a few new ones have sprouted.  Just gotta love the Tamo, NOT!  Thats one SE I could so without.

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  • kal_1865
    kal_1865 Member Posts: 176
    edited July 2011

    we can barely get them to cover our required tests and surgeries, could you imagine submitting a claim for laser hair removal?

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited July 2011

    After I lost my hair--eyebrows--lovely chin hair--I kind of enjoyed the months without tweezing and waxing. For months they have been growing back and eek I see the chin sprouting like weeds. I had ignored my eyebrows, almost a sense of pride that they had grown back. Finally looked in the mirror, the magnified mirror that is, and realized it was time to trim the excess. Only to find out my teenage son had absconded with my favorite pair of tweezers. Ick. So I went and bought a pretty pink (just coincidence on the pink, its Revlon) pair of tweezers. Told my boys--lay off--the pink pair is mine. Think I'll  be able to find them this time when I need them!!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2011

    Claire, I'm afraid to ask....what does a teenage boy do with tweezers????

    Hey e!! This time the page opened further down page 41.... progress!!

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  • walker2222
    walker2222 Member Posts: 558
    edited July 2011

    I haven't noticed any facial hair but one of the up sides to chemo was not having to shave your legs and under arms for a while.  Having to do that again is a real bummer.

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited July 2011

    And why is it that the leg hair is growing in faster than the hair on my head.  That really sucks.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2011

    Same reason we gain weight from the ass up, but lose it from the boobs down.

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