Needing reading glasses can be age related, as can bc.

An enlarged lymph node under arm a week before DX was all.

I have been exhausted (also had vision changes) and have had hair loss for 5 years. So, yeah, basically I had treatment side effect symptoms BEFORE I was dx. I also have been very dry. Skin, eyes,hair. Thirsty all the time and achey. I want to blame everything on the cancer but maybe I am just getting old. Ha

I would say unexplained fatigue that I was chalking up to having a lot of life changes in the past couple years - getting married, having a baby, breastfeeding, leaving my career to stay home, raising teenagers... all seemed like possible culprits. Even after my mastectomy, it was easy to tell myself "still recovering ". But now that I've started the ovarian suppression and Tamoxifen, I feel a lot more like my old self, my energy is coming back. It's comforting (how strange that sounds! to look back and know that there really was something going on inside.

I had a change in body odor too. Also extremely dry skin, when it had never been an issue before. As soon as cancer removed, within days, the dry skin was gone

When I would lie on my left side I would feel uncomfortable. If I woke up on that side it would be painful. I was extremely tired, but was also going through peri-menopause. I had a strange feeling of a lump in my throat every time I would swallow. It wasn't at all painful, but bothersome. I even went as far as having an ENT doctor do testing on me. They thought the feeling could be related to my on and off again acid reflux. The strange thing is after I had the cancer removed the surgeon said my throat may be a little sore because they placed a tubing down my throat during surgery. I did not feel any pain, but did notice that the lump feeling was completely gone. I chalked it up to maybe the tube they put down my throat may have actually helped. After reading your article, now I wonder if it had to do with the cancer. Also, I did have some eye issues. I would have never before equated it with the cancer. I started to have trouble with seeing close up. Naturally I was expecting that since I am getting older. My eye doctor did an exam and prescribed me bi-focals. I did not change my glasses right away. Within a few months my vision became extremely far sighted again and I practically have to put things to my face before I can read it. I never heard of it changing back.

Two cases of the shingles two years apart 4 years ago, 2 years ago and was diagnosed this March.

I have been chalking up various health issues to ulcerative colitis since being diagnosed with that 2 years ago, eye pain is actually the first sign of a flare for me. My GI doc had actually sent to me an eye doctor earlier this year to make sure there wasn’t some other issue with my eye. So this is quite an interesting theory. My last period before BC diagnosis was quite late and was preceded by a pain that I worried was a kidney infection,and the one since DX was much earlier than usual. I am ER+.

Wow..that's really interesting about cancer causing vision problems, because I dealt with this, too! I was told I was in the initial stages of glaucoma. But when I got a second opinion, THAT eye dr said my eyes looked fine!

I even posted a thread about it. I was worried about a brain tumor MRI was normal, tho.