Chemo May 2011

Who wins? Benedryll, Decadron or Nyquil?........DECADRON! ANother sleepless night. They did chemo because my counts were good and no fever, but my heart rate is fast?!  They also put me on antibiotics.

Candice, so sorry you are having a setback. Each treatment does seem to get a bit tougher. Make sure your sweet hubby and daughter spoil you rotten!

Diana, I understand about the down days. Some days I am so upbeat and able not to think about the c word and then the next day I am crying my eyes out! I seem to have more down days than up days, but i do really appreciate the up days! It is so hard to feel normal when you have no hair, get tired so easily and have weekly doctor appointments.

Blondelawyer, I fret about the incisions and drains, I feel for you. I am a wimp when it comes to new scars! You have had your fair share of doctor appointments! When I had my 4 week chemo break I was like, what am I suppose to do?  I had more time for myself, but I got used to it very fast. My onc told me I should set up my surgeon appointment soon, guess I should call tomorrow.  I still have 8 weeks of chemo left, 4 abraxane down 8 to go. The first 4 went pretty fast.

I better take my temp. I am laying here sweating....Hope I don't have a fever, I am already on antibiotics.

Anyone take Xeloda? I will be starting it on Sept. 19th...

blondelawyer, I think Suze35 is on Xeloda, she usually posts on the triple neg thread.

Just stopping by to say hi to all the may 2011 chemo gals! Hope everyone had a great weekend. I am still getting over a cold so have been pretty lazy. Abraxane has been ok, I have had a little bit of a bloody nose either from the avastin or from the cold I have, but nothing too bad. I am one third of the way done with abraxane, 4 done 8 to go.

Oh beagle I'm sorry. I know how much you want to get this done! Hang in there sister !

beaglesgirl,

how are you doing?  how many more Taxol you have left?  I have two more and will be done the week of 19th.  hair is slowly growing. lashes and eyebrows coming back.  still unable to shed the 20 lbs i gained.  i will rest for 3 weeks then start rads.

mamav,

how are you?  i read beaglesgirl's msg that you will be back to chemo?  why?  hope all is well.

Laureen

LaureenRomero07  we have the same time left with taxol : ) 2 more for me too and done the week of the 19 th Then i get  ultra sound mamgram and Mri done that week on friday. I havent had surgery yet so he wants to see where we are at shrinking wise . Have u had surgery ? I am afraid of the drains and healig up. I am thinking bout mastectomy .The doctor said no muscels will be cut so i hope its not bad and i dont want reconstuction  .I hate pain  and i hear it s just more pain. I wanna so be done.  One step at a time i guess. If margins are clear and lymnodes are clear i am all done with taxol if not i get 6 more I totaly can do. : ) If all goes well radiation for 30 days each day . I can not wait to get there .I am sure we all cant wait to get to the end of the roller coaster .

just me1,

yey, 2 more Taxols for both us!  Yes, I had mastectomy of right breast before i started chemo.  personally, surgery was SOOO much tolerable then chemo.  i was able to handle the pain, discomfort, and the drains well.

goodluck with your scans.  hopefully there will be significant shrinkages.  goodluck with surgery as well.

Laureen

Just checking in with everyone.  I read but don't post often.  So glad everyone is making it through treatment and there is light at the end of the long journey.  I think about and pray for each and every one of you.

I am now 6 weeks PFC and feel pretty much normal.  The body is resilient and recovers quickly once it stops getting knocked down with each treatment.  It is an amazing machine. 

Hang in there girls, you are all on the home stretch and your body does recover. 

I am having breast pain again grrrrr when i found my lump i had breast pain io took a/c  and the pain went away ,now i am on taxol and the past 3 days i have pain  . kind hard pain not so much i cant  handel but i am kind scared that bugger is growing again. I got two weeks before my scans .I ask my onoc. dr and he said probably the weather ..... REALLY I dont know bout him . I am going to call my surgen who seems so much onboard with me tomorrow if hurts  again. Its not constant just shoots pains sometimes. grrrrr Anybody ele experience this?

I havent had surgery .Its been going on since monday kinda freakin me out.I was on the hard stuff a/c and it shrunk really good stopped hurting now i am on taxol and begin hurting .How did your surgery go ? Did they do the needle in your nipple to see if the lympnodes were ok? I am so dreading that . The recovory i hope its fast .LOL My mind is going 100 miles a hour tonight .

Oh one more thing you might want to know. The needle is not in the nipple it self it is around the arola (spelling)

Also the blue dye they use you will pee it!!! It looke like tydy bowl.

I agree with Mccrissom that you need a good sports bra after, if you are haveing a lumpepeny. I am not sure if you are having a mascepeny. (sorry about the spelling)

Worst part of the surgery is waiting. (I had mine April 21 of this year)

Candice

Justme1 - I swear, I had no idea about the needle thing, when I walked in the lady who was going to do it apologized beforehand for hurting me.  That made me panic.  It was just really weird, they did 4 shots in the areola and they hurt ALOT but it really only lasted for a few seconds each, most of my worrying was waiting for the next shot.  I've also heard from people that you pee blue, I never did, or I was so doped up I never noticed.  Also, never really had any pain after surgery. 

Believe me I was freaked out.  This was a first type of any surgery for me at all.  I couldn't believe I had to drive to three separate places let alone with a wire sticking out of my boob!  I also had the clip put in during biopsy, the day of surgery I had to go and get my boob stuck back in that god awful biopsy machine, they numbed me up and stuck the wire in, forget why but then they took a styrofoam cup and tape it to me and sent me on my way. 

They numbed me, it didn't hurt at all.  Those stupid needles for the SNB hurt more but really it only lasted seconds and wasn't that bad, I was just so unprepared for everything.

Number 5 of 12 done. Doc decided to up the dosage because I have been tolerating treatment so well. Well, not anymore! I feel like crap today, and the day after is usually my best day!

We haven't heard from blondelawyer and Marybe for awhile, hope both of you are hanging in there!

Justme, when is your surgery? I still have surgery to look forward to. BMX probably sometime in late November or early December. Stupid question, when is Thanksgiving? The last or third Thursday? I know I can look it up but doesn;t show up on my phone calendar.

I had the blue dye injection 8 years ago before my lumpectomy and I don't even remember if it hurt or not. I'm going with that it did not hurt, so I don't freak out before hand this time! Sometimes denial is best, until the time comes!

blondelawyer, I agree it seems like if it was cancer it would have shrank with all your chemo. Seems odd that it would not change in the slightest when you had such great response with your breast tumor. They aren't saying it is stage 4 because at this point they do not know. So that spot has been there all along? The waiting sucks. When do you start rads? I am so sorry about my pm to you, just bad timing on my part and I don't want to to anything to upset you. Ugh, cancer sucks. Why wouldn't your mo say it was in a strange place before? Could they do a biopsy are is it in a bad spot for that? I know about the not asking further questions right away, it's like I am not ready at that point to fully know.

It has been over 7 weeks since my last pet scan, and even though the doc told me about the results I wasn't ready to see the report until last time, when I finally asked to see it. I did not ask for a print out but he sat there and read it to me as I looked at the computer. It said cancer in breast can't be seen and internal mammary nodes resolved, this is after he told me 90% reduction, but I think that is because the nodes are still there but no activity. The report did not say ned anywhere, do they usually if they think you are ned? He told me he is keeping me on a short leash, unlike my last oncologist, who he happens to know and they even still speak. (Previous mo is retired) Sorry I am rambling again....why can't I ever keep it short?