Did anyone have chemo brain
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sallywalker
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Hi everyone- I've been experiencing some chemo brain since my last chemo treatment..who hoo, my last!..im done!!anyway, my sister in law recommended back on track. It's a program for women who have undergone chemo treatments for BC and are experiencing chemo brain. It is supposed to exercise the brains cognitive skills. I went to the website and they have free downloads. Hope this helps anyone in the same situation as me.
god bless
sali
here's the website i where I found the download: http://www.e-mindfitness.com
god bless
sali
here's the website i where I found the download: http://www.e-mindfitness.com
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There are about a half dozen treatments to de-toxify someone from Methotrexate. I could pass along that information if it would help. But if you were on AC+T or FEC it wouldn't mean much.
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I get really frustrated when I have more than two task in front of me--on the weeks that I go to work if the phone rings and people are lined up in front of me I get so frustrated--I was never like that before--and to find the correct words to use in my sentences and to type this with out backspacing alot is really hard to do--but I am taking it all in stride--as well as my husband and kids are--now they are telling me that they have chemo brain--it must be rubbing off to them--lol--we try to keep the humor alive--why not it makes the time go faster
Take care
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"Chemo Brain" seems to have become a catch-all phrase at my house too. I kind of like it. Even though I'm thinking more clearly now (finished chemo 4 mos. ago) and I've "got my words back", I think I'll hang on to "chemo brain" for awhile -- it's rather nice to have something to fall back on -- if I don't feel like engaging or I've lost my train of thought because of other things (like menopause!). I don't need to make excuses for myself and I just do what I did for months...smile, shrug my shoulders, wave my hands and say "sorry, CB" and whoever I'm talking to can fill in the blank. For all the bad things cancer does, I think that when we are finishing treatment it's rather nice to have a little something to take away that we can actually use!!
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Im 6 months post chemo and I can finially say my chemo brain is gone. I dont have the fuzziness anymore. I think the biggest thing that helped me was getting back to a normal life again. Working, making decisions. At least I dont put things in the refrigerator that belong in the freezer anymore. I think the old saying is good. What you dont use you will lose.
I checked out the link on emindfitness.com as was suggested. It seems like an add to me to purchase modules to retrain your memory. I wasnt too impressed with it.
My onc gave me the best advice. He said just let the chemo come out of your system naturally. I did what he said, and I am feeling great.
Nickii -
Did anyone notice that this is the user's only post and it links to a website selling stuff for cognitive function? Another person preying on us...How do you notify the moderator?
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I thought I had the worse case of chemobrain ever. At my regular 90 days follow-up with my oncologist last December 21, 2005, I asked if it would ever improve. It had been nearly 2 years since I had finished chemo but my memory was getting worse and worse. I had been transferred to a less busy office at work because frankly, I was not doing a very good job. My family made fun of me because they said I would tell them the same thing over and over again. My doctor sent me for an MRI and a brain tumor the size of a 12 oz soda can was found in my right frontal lobe. The neurosurgeon that I was referred to initially thought it was mestasis and told me that we were looking at a "Quality of Life, Not Quantity of LIfe Issue," Fortunately it was a benign meginioma. I was diagnosed on December 22
and had surgery to remove the tumor on December 27. Now, 6 months later my mental abilities are much improved. So, breast cancer probably saved my life! The tumor had grown so large that it had shifted my brain beyond the midline and I was in great danger of having a stoke due to the edema surrounding the tumor. I had two seizures while I was in the recovery room (don't remember that at all), so I was not allowed to drive for 90 days. I was off work until April and did take speech therapy and occupational therapy to deal with a few deficits that I had. Life is good now. -
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Did anyone notice that this is the user's only post and it links to a website selling stuff for cognitive function? Another person preying on us...How do you notify the moderator?
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What is this????? How do we notify the moderator?
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Hi Cheryl - If you want to notify the moderator about a post, where is says "Post Extras:" at the bottom of each post just click on the next to last item, it'll ask you if you want to notify moderator and you just click on yes.
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Thanks ... just learning
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