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  • JourneyOn
    JourneyOn Member Posts: 16
    edited May 2014

    Good morning --  My primary diagonosis was StageIIb, but it has now metastized to my liver and some lymphs.  I understand I will always be "counted" as stage IIB -- but I'm now a IV.

  • LSpellin
    LSpellin Member Posts: 17
    edited May 2014

    hi, I was diagnosed stage lV March 17, 2014 mets to hip and rib. Yikes glad I found you!

  • JourneyOn
    JourneyOn Member Posts: 16
    edited May 2014

    Nice to meet you Spelin!  Good look to you.  How did you update your diagnoxix?  I was not able to do that without my first dx going away?

    Surpised that no one else has responded to the question on how we are counted as StageIV -- already having a primary diagnosis.

  • LSpellin
    LSpellin Member Posts: 17
    edited May 2014

    Hi JourneyOn, I'm pretty new to this as I just joined April 2014 and am still trying to navigate my way through.  On this question there are 18 pages before us that have signed in with stage 4.  And on my home page I listed my first diognose and then listed my new diognose but still haven't figure out how to list all of my treatments of chemo, radiation.... etc etc.

    So nice to meet you!  This has helped me so much in the feeling that I am not alone and any question I have I am able to fine or ask.

    Always lynette

  • Saq
    Saq Member Posts: 5
    edited May 2014

    i am new to posting, but am also a stage iv comrade...

  • roberta37
    roberta37 Member Posts: 371
    edited May 2014

    Count me in too.  Used this site a lot when going through treatment the first time around and then after popped in once in awhile.  I know this site helped so much the first time around and I love that we get the support we do here.  Also have tried to keep up with the latest treatment options or new discoveries.

  • ramade
    ramade Member Posts: 11
    edited May 2014

    Metastatic breast cancer, throat and voice box, femara for 2 and a half years.

  • skylotus
    skylotus Member Posts: 304
    edited June 2014

    Hi All! DX stage 4, Aug 2013, 15 years after original dx, stage IIb. Mets to both hips, almost all spine, ribs, neck, skull and lung. On A/A ever since w/Zometa. Tried xgeva, it has sorbitol in it, and I'm allergic.  I'm blogging about it all at http://earthandskylotus.wordpress.com

    Is there a "blogger" thread?

  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited June 2014

    Hi skylotus! 

    As far as we know, there isn't a "blogger" thread here but, if you want, feel free to start a new one under the Recommend Your Resources forum. 

    Best, 

    The Mods

  • terri-c
    terri-c Member Posts: 180
    edited June 2014

    Might be too late, but you can count me also. 

    I was diagnosed with pretty much stage nothing breast cancer in 2011, but in April 2014 we learned it had metastasized to my spine, left hip, liver and left adrenal gland.

  • Anneclectic
    Anneclectic Member Posts: 1
    edited June 2014
  • okimie
    okimie Member Posts: 4
    edited June 2014

    I was diagnosed stage IV Breast HER+ , ER+, PR+ with bone mets in hips, spine and ribs Oct 2012. I had Aridia and 7 rounds of taxol. In May 2013 had nod for 9 blissful months. 

    Tumor markers spiked in March of this year ... back with Bone in scull, neck, spine, hips and ribs :/  and Liver mets and being treated with Kadclya and Zometa . 

    My side affects are a little less with Zometa in place of the Aridia. However i am not sure if the steady weight loss, random stabbing pains, tiredness, headaches and 

    nausea is due to my Kadclya or the Liver cancer. Had my third treatment today and markers are spiked even higher...with LDH at 3088 and all others in the 100's.

  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 9,430
    edited June 2014

    Dx'd w/diffuse bone mets in January of this year -- a month shy of my 6 year mark.  Subsequently dx'd in March w/pathological fractures to my femur and pelvis that necessitated a total hip replacement, which may have been a blessing in disguise, hopefully removing any mets in that area. Most recent CA27-29 showed TM's down significantly.  On Anastrazole.  Very grateful for the support on the Bone Mets thread these days!

  • Rozann
    Rozann Member Posts: 43
    edited July 2014

    Hi

    My name is Rozann and I am Stage IV BC.  I was diagnosed Stage IV last summer.  I was on Faslodex, but have just been  changed to A/A.  I can't remember how to put my treatments on here.

  • shawna41653
    shawna41653 Member Posts: 20
    edited July 2014
  • VegasNurse
    VegasNurse Member Posts: 36
    edited July 2014

    new to the forum.....stage four from the get go.

  • Raymonde
    Raymonde Member Posts: 6
    edited July 2014

    Hello... My name is Raymonde. I learned I had stage IV IDC, mets to a lung and to liver, last October. 

    :-D

  • Raymonde
    Raymonde Member Posts: 6
    edited July 2014

    Hi Rozann - to update your treatments, click on Profile at the top of this page and then on the appropriate tab. :-)

  • Raymonde
    Raymonde Member Posts: 6
    edited July 2014

    Hi Okimie... This is to let you know that I have mets to liver, diagnosed last fall. I have never suffered any of the symptoms you describe.

    However, we are all different from one another; this is just my experience.

    Best wishes.. 

  • macska-ma
    macska-ma Member Posts: 13
    edited July 2014

    dear ladies, stage iv, dx 3 weeks ago.mets to liver.

  • donsuzbee
    donsuzbee Member Posts: 129
    edited July 2014

    Hello. Mets to spine getting more under control since I started the Affinitor/Aromisin meds. Plus continuing Xgeva monthly injection. Tumor on left adrenal gland DX 2013. Not responding as quickly as Onc would like so March 31 finished 8 Stereotactical Radiation Surgery treatments followed by PET scan. Tumor reduced by 2/3.

    At age 73 I just keep rolling along these 21 years of breast cancer with renal cell carcinoma meaning right nephrectomy 7 years ago. 

    All of you give me encouragement to do what needs to be done.

  • wildrumara
    wildrumara Member Posts: 450
    edited July 2014


    Diagnosed first time around stage 2b in August 2011.  Diagnosed stage IV in April 2014 with two small mets in the liver only.   These were found incidentally on a CT scan that was ordered by a urologist for something totally unrelated.  Talk about a surprise!  Oncologist said I probably wouldn't have had symptoms for another 6-12 months!   Had a resection of one lesion in May and SBRT of the other in June. 

  • wrsmith2x
    wrsmith2x Member Posts: 410
    edited July 2014

    Add me as of 7/24/14....single lung met.  Three times with cancer in last 7 years.  Still trying to decide exactly what to do.  Ugh.

  • Jabid
    Jabid Member Posts: 10
    edited August 2014

    Hello Everybody! This is Jabid from Fiji. I mom was diagnosed with lung mets in February this year. Had 5 rounds of chemo in India and is now on oral chemo, Endoxan (50mg) AND levesam. is anyone here on the same medications especially endoxan? I would like to know what the side effects are as my mom gets nausea too often and does not feel like eating most of the time.

    Thanks

    Jabid

  • kmusial
    kmusial Member Posts: 5
    edited August 2014

    Sorry kinda late with the post. I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer about a year and a half ago. "Lucky me" I went from being healthy, hardly ever even getting a cold, to being told I have stage 4 cancer. Its been one heck of a year and a half, but I refuse to let chemo, radiation, or cancer stop me. 

    Kara

  • Bosco19
    Bosco19 Member Posts: 221
    edited August 2014

    Jabid

    Endoxan is a name for cyclophosphamide which is a common chemo drug.  I don't remember the side effects but the doctors ought to be able to prescribe something for nausea.  I think I was given domperidome for anti nausea but you need to speak to your mum's oncologist.

    The other drug is anti-seizure medication I think.

  • angiephnx
    angiephnx Member Posts: 36
    edited August 2014

    You can add me to the list.  Found out I have bone mets 2-2014.  I'm currently taking arimidex.

  • Becs511
    Becs511 Member Posts: 303
    edited August 2014

    Also a member of the club. Diagnosed Stage 4, triple positive, straight off the bat in May, with spread to lymph nodes, sternum, left pelvic bone, and possibly lungs (could also just be nodes). Doing weekly Taxol (just finished round 12) with herceptin and perjeta every 3 weeks. 

  • GG27
    GG27 Member Posts: 2,128
    edited August 2014

    Add me to the list as well.  Stage IV in May 2014.  Dee (GG27)

  • paigeelyse88
    paigeelyse88 Member Posts: 1
    edited August 2014

    I'm stage 4 as of last Tuesday... to the bones (spine)

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