Let's conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer

patoo, i DO use it to patch and repair metal AND wood! I will go and see if I can find some before and after pictures in my photos, to show you what it can do. Its pretty amazing, and I have used it in great big chunks of missing wood, termite damage, and these windows that needed to be repaired, ones that would be too expensive to replace.

If wasting money causes breast cancer, it explains why I got lumps in BOTH breasts at the SAME time! I'm sure I'm due a few more lumps at this point if that's the case!

Tomboy, we are of like minds....I've known thousands this year in the interest of keeping my mind off treatment. I even booked a cruise for June that I'm still not entirely sure how to pay for!

Budget? What budget? Oh yeah...that thing I used to stick to religiously before bc that kept me from having any fun....I remember that thing! I WILL be going back to that....soon....otherwise I might lose my house. I'd laugh out loud, but it's really not funny!

girls we May be on to something. If wasting money is it, no wonder I got it. Some days when I look at some of the things we have done we might have well been riding down the road throwing money out the window. I wish I could have fun but I worry about money, or the lack there of. Hardly holding head above water.....ugh I guess I had better watch out for relapse

I'm still convinced I got cancer because I didn't smoke or take hormone replacement drugs during menopause. I played it much too safe in life

Great pic, tomboy. skylotus, complaining is proven (somewhere here in this thread) to be good for us and it doesn't cause BC. Remember, BCo is the place to come and complain because we understand.

thanks, you guys. that was in november of last year, utah was beautiful beautiful beautiful! I weighed about 125 ~130 then, almost a year after chemo. I was so happy to see utah, and forget about everything... but now I am pretty pi$$3d, because no matter what i do, I now weigh 148. All my adult life before chemo, I always weighed 115~120.. GRRRR! Not enough walking in national parks gives you fat, i dunno if it gives bc.

No Renee, my BC also on the right and I'm left-handed or maybe I only think I'm left-handed but am really right-handed and mixed up? Or maybe my left hand is really attached to my right arm and then you could be right. Hmmm, maybe I should try and switch hands - x.j psih kfkx;p udif - nope, that didn't work. Back to square one!

Not scheduled to see MO for another 3 months but better go now since I've been packing and stuff in attic and closets that I haven't ween in years had dust bunnies crawling all over them. But at least this time I'm forewarned. Last time I moved was in 2003 and 5 years later was DX so now I can prepare and stay out of harms way. Hey, had pneumonia shot, first time flu shot, shingles shot, may as well get a dust bunny shot.

Maybe it's caused by pollen. It follows my car and paints it green! Anything that can do that must be suspect.

I was always writing. Journals, poetry, pen pals.. Maybe the blood flow to my girls was blocked... Or as I matured and they got bigger, I would rest them on the desktop to rest my shoulders.... Or... I was in several plays and musicals in high school.. One of the productions I was supposed to be a young girl so they bound my boobs.. That's gotta be it! They rebelled from that experience!

My period starts when I was only 10! I believe my "super ovaries" caused my BC!

Anyone interested in reviving this topic?

Ortho-novum anyone? From what I've read, it feeds a body PR and ER hormones. I took that from age 15 (recommended by doctor that my parents put me on it, had terrible cramps and heavy periods -- and it worked) to age 31. Then I had a hysterectomy.

Family history of cervical cancer. Kind of off the subject, but "they" say cervical cancer is not hereditary. But it's interesting to me that if not hereditary, my maternal great-grandmother died of cervical cancer. My maternal grandmother had a hysterectomy at age 29 because of 'female problems' (who knows!) My mom had a hysterectomy at age 30 because of bleeding that wouldn't subside (symptom of cervical cancer.) I had a hysterectomy at age 31 because I had cervical carcinoma in situ (cancer of the cervix contained, not spread) so removal of cervix and uterus took care of that, so no more need for birth control. My daughter has had bad paps, but has had more good than bad lately, so she's in what "they" consider the safe zone. None of us has been diagnosed with HPV, by the way.

25 years later...breast cancer...PR and ER positive. Big shock. No family history. Not one person in my family has had breast cancer.

HOWEVER...know what else is interesting? No other maternal relative my age in my family took birth control pills. My sister practiced the Catholic birth control method. My first cousin had trouble conceiving, so she never took birth control of any kind. I'm the one with breast cancer.

I'm sure bcp for at least 25 years non stop is big. Dense breasts, unhealthy eating and weight, inactivity.

Rosabella - read the thread. We are poking fun at things, not asking for "serious" answers.