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Lily (and Julia) hope your dose is nice and easy tomorrow with no problems with veins or ports.

I have finished treatment (apart from hormone stuff) but it hasn’t finished with me, I’m developing a nice pinky colour which is a bit itchy but the cream is helping with that but I’m using Aloe vera rather than the tub of stuff they gave me. I have such hyper sensitive skin that aloe’s the only stuff I trust.

Bevy, my energy levels are starting to return, I certainly feel better in myself so a 2 months after my last dose and jsut a few days after radio and I’m feeling better, some of it may be the relief. me and Tommy watched the extended version of Lord of the rings on Saturday and found ourselves doing the cheesy laughing scene, you know the one where the hero laughs with tears rolling down their face because a long journey is over… yep too close to home :slight_smile:

Anyway hope you all have a good week and I bet you are counting the days until the end now.

Lisa, hope your computer’s fixed soon and hope you’re recovering well.

Nicky: Dinner for 10. Yikes, hope it went well and hope that the alternative AI has less complications!

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Hi
Good luck Lily and Julia, our long distance runners in the chemo event. Not long to go now, you must be able to see the stadium by now! Hope all goes well tomorrow and bloods were OK today.
Lily - thanks for the thread mention about Ovary ablation, I’ll also do a search (which I’ve done before) to read up on possible after effects. I will need about 3 zaps I think of fairly low dosage rads - that should fry them nicely! My hand is still slightly swollen so no wedding ring still. Sometimes I can put on another ring I have but even that’s tight at times. My hand looks OK but when you compare it to my right hand it’s a much darker colour and definitely puffier. Another thing to put up with. However it’s not painful and I can bend my write more now the veins are loosening up.
Angie - bet that’s a nice feeling to be over all the disruptive treatment even if hormonals are still to follow. Assume you have a follow up appt to sort this out? Dinner for 10 went well and, as I’m off the booze for now, I could remember it all the next morning. However don’t think I’ll do it again for a while! My palpiations have got less since last week when I stopped taking Femara so it does seem as if it’s linked. However it will still be in my blood for a bit longer so I will see what happens and also when I go onto another AI.
Bev - sorry to hear you’re so tired but not surprising considering what you’ve been through. Although I feel OK I do notice feeling more tired, like on Sat eve when we were up late and I was dashing around sorting the food etc. I guess you know to take it easy when your body tells you to. Nice to get out and see the autumn colours though isn’t it? Sometimes they’re as dramatic as the USA who always go on about the ‘fall’! OH and I had a nice long walk around our village yesterday afternoon - I think to clear his cobwebs out more than anything! It was just right weather wise but did get windy later in the evening.
Lorraine - hope you are OK and your sister is as well. Sounds like there’s alot of problems going on with your family - it must be very difficult to deal with when you’ve had so much on your plate as well. I hope you are able to support each other. I have 2 brothers who live some distance away and I don’t think it’s quite the same as having sisters. However I do have some very close girl friends who I can talk to and who been great support for me.
Lisa - hope you are getting stronger all the time and feeling OK after your op - physically and mentally. Take care.
To everyone I’ve not mentioned, sorry, but hope you are all doing well.
Nicky xx

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Hi,
well my daughter took her partner to the fracture clinic today and they said on arrival, oh you’ve fractured your tibia right through. This is rather strange after Southend hospital insisted there was no break just ligament trouble and they were both studying the same x rays!! So he is in plaster from ankle to thigh and really struggling to get upstairs. It has broken in exactly the same place as 6 years ago, again playing football so she is trying hard to make him retire! My bloods were straight forward this morning although with 40 people ahead I had no qualms about jumping the queue today. So off on another dive in the morning but not before a hearty breakfast in the canteen. I am hoping for good whale harpooning first go of the needle. We will be doing rememberance day in the chemo unit. Very fitting as chemo was discovered by research on mustard gas poisoning victims and that is how my husband’s Grandad died. Julia with you in spirit and hope we both go well this time. Angie thanks for the kind thoughts 188 days done and 8 to go!! Hope the pink goes soon, it must be from the radiotherapy I guess. Bevy hope you are on the up now. Lisa hope you are too. Lorraine hope all goes well for your sister when she starts chemo. Nicky, thanks I can definitely see the stadium now and will be quite excited until the second looms closer as it was a bit of a struggle on number 7. I had to take 7 thrush tablets again, just hope I killed it off before the next one goes in. 3 zaps to get to menopause does not sound too bad does it? Sorry to hear your hand is still not completely better, do you think it is still improving a bit each week? Palpatations going too so it looks like you were right with your diagnosis. Is there any difference in side effects between the other 2 you could go on next? I have been reading that when you go on Tamoxifen they can give you a version callled nolvadex-d, which is more expensive but much less trouble with SE, so will ask about that. I see the onc on the Thursday after my last dose next week. Then off to the heart guy again - wobble wobble.
Have a good week if you can
Lily ( marathon runner 2 laps to go!!!)x

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Hi,
number 11 is done hooray. I am feeling very woozy from the piriton but hope to sleep that off tonight. That is befoe the steropid days of bouncing start tomorrow I expect. Julia hope today went well for you, I was there for hours as one member of staff sick and another stabbed her finger with a used needle from the man next to me and both he and her had to have all sorts of tests as you can imagine. The breakfast was good though
Hi everyone else
Lily x

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well done lily another one over. you seem to be bearing up well, keep it up.

nicky 08
thanks for asking about my family, its been worse this week, had to get ambulance for sister who has angina, because she passed out after taking her spray. she ;has also lost a stone in a week from having diariah(bad spelling) then the same sisters daughter in law died aged 42, which was a shock as she hadnt been unwell. my other sis ;is stilling waiting on chemo, should have her dates this week. so all in all bit of a sad time at moment. but its nice to hear your living life to the full, keep it up!
everyone else take care.x

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Hi: Just a quickie: Had the poison yesterday, am OK, just very worn out - think the lethargy is getting to me. Doing domestic things today, like defrosting the freezer to make space for the ahead of the game prep for the lunch in December. Start taking the C pills this morning and the other 24 hour thingys.

Saw my lovely Asian lady yesterday with her v. glamourous husband who is a Sikh. He told me about his grandfather who had worked as engineer building bridges, etc, for the British Army during WW1. Fascinating . She is just starting her CMF but has got black nails from the epi - strange that.

Anyway, will report more later in the week. Hope you are OK Lily and everyone else.

LOL

Julia

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Well done Lily another one over with!!! hope you are feeling o.k. and just remember that horrible feeling doesn’t last forever. Remember you have more behind you than in front of you. Thinking of you.

Julia also hope you are feeling o.k. don’t do too much and wear yourself out. I did that a couple of times as when you feel able you want to do so much but then can feel hammered the next day so take it easy.

Lorraine so sorry to hear about your family it seems so so unfair that everyone is coping with so much at the same time you all deserve a break and sincerely hope that happens soon.

Nicky thankfully my energy levels are feeling bettter not as they were but so much better than last week. I even popped into work yesterday and had lunch with a couple of my colleagues which was really good and I am intending to go back albeit on a very part time basis in Dec! a bit of normality. I have been asked to get a Doc’s letter to say that it o.k. (they are being very cautious) still can’t think there will be a problem with that. I still can’t get use to wearing the wiggie and find myself adjusting it (without realising someone maybe watching) and then remember that when I do that my glasses pop up and down a bit like Eric Morecombe (the younger ones amongst us wont know who I am talking about!) I really must stop doing that in public.

Thinking of you all girls and wishing you a peaceful manageable week.

Bev x

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hiya all, still not back on board, borrowed tiny tiny lap top of sis in law, its about 8inches, so will catch up with you all when back at work next week. hope all is well as can be.

angie, soz re brca results, i get mine on wed and assuming i have it too as said would get in touch after xmas if couldnt find anythying - worried will need another masectomy!!!

Lily - glad nuther dose in.

hope all else well, will reply properly on monday
xxxx

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Hey everyone

Guess who…sorry for not saying hello for so long. I am now half way through radiotherapy,my last one will be next tueday, no more treatment yipee!!! Had to stop myself giggling on one of the daily sessions. I am lying there naked from the waist up on the bed, with my right arm up in a strap, the nurses telling me to lie still and not to move… the music they were playing was Queens ‘I want to break free’. Of course i want to break free, but i am told not to move!!!

Still getting after effects from the chemo… my fingernails are falling off, one of the reasons why i have not been online… typing messages have been very painful. Also i am after some advise, one of the other side effects is having hot sweats, up to 15 a day. The oncoligist said it is because my body is trying to get back to normal and my hormones are all over the place. I thought it might be early menopause, but it isn’t. Can anyone suggest what can help with hot sweats???

Yet again sorry for not beng in touch. ((((((((BIG HUGS)))))))) to everyone.

Kirsty xxxx

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Hi,
I am feeling normal today as the steroids have kicked in but my mouth tastes like I have licked 2000 envelopes - yuk. Not expecting to be able to sleep for a few days but at least I get some things done. I even managed to finish a short essay for my masters that has been hanging around. It was about how the last year has affected me , so that ws a biggy, still perhaps I will get the sympathy vote and get an A for it !! I had to make a big decision about whether to have my eye sight or chance a potentially worse reaction than last time, by dropping my steroids. So I am taking a slightly reduced dose. They apparently make the side effects on your stomach far worse, fab. So counting down to the last one on Tuesday, then the Prof on Thursday for news of what next. I am definitely going to grovel for the more expensive tamoxifen that gives few side effects. After all I was on a trial so they had no drugs to pay for.
Lorraine I was so very sorry to hear about your poor sister and the loss of her son’s wife, how tragic at such a young age. You must all feel like saying what next. I do hope that she is alright at least and that they can control the angina better. You need to try to stay as calm as you can too with all this going on. Thinking of you and all the family x.
Julia, yes I am tired too, no sign of my fridge being defrosted!! Still the first steroids are in so we should bounce for a few days at least. How do you find the tablets? That is the drug I react too so perhaps a good thing I have it in the unit.Hope this one goes well for you and anyway we have the end in site. My research nurse said yesterday I can’t believe you saw it right to the end, you are a real trooper. I am guessing not many of us last the course! I was lucky to met up with another trooper like you. Take care x.
Bevy, thanks I am not bad today, it never gets nme for a few days though. I hope your arm is improving now and will continue too without the dreaded chemo. Don’t rush to work if you use your arm a lot or you could delay your progress. I laughed and laughed at Eric Morecame, yes I am old enough to remember. Still you won’ t need it for too much longer I am sure.Take care x. Lisa, glad to hear from you. How are you getting on with the oohs and aahs after the surgery. They say the air they blow you up with when you have keyhole surgery is the worst pain till it goes. Work next week , you hero. I have not stepped in work since end of March and feel like a right woss to all of you. No sign of incapacity pay yet, but fiongers crossed as my pay has gone to half, which is a big los to the family budget but will dig into saving for Christmas and birthdays. I will be thinking of you on Wed and hope you have someone to go with just in case. I don’t know whether you would be told to have another mx or not but will be hoping for the best for you. If it is then you might think about a recon as you get the best results when you have 2 done. I hope it is no more surgery for you though x.
Kirsty lovely to hear that you are so far down rads and finishing, as you have had so many disasters on chemo. You deserve a break. You finish rads the same day Julia and I have our last iv chemo treatment, a triple celebration. Horrible about the fingernails. Tax makes fingernails drop off that is why you are advised to paint them with black nailvarnish to protect the nailbead from uv rays. I hear they feel much better when right off as there is already part of a nali underneath pushing. Good luck x.
Nicky are you back at work as planned. Hope all is well with you. Angie hope you are ok, any more wedding plans yet. Don’t forget to write in our topless salute on the day!! Joanne are you reading, let us know how you are, you know I woory about you?

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Lily. So that was the penultimate dose right. 1 more to go and you’ll be done. We’ll all be there blowing trumpets for you and Julia for sure. You’ll be beouncing all the way to the end after the amount of steroids you’ve had to endure, are you cutting them short this time and riskying a reaction or just going to put up with them?

Everydaymatters (Lorraine?) I really hope you and both your sisters are having a better time soon.

So Julia is your last dose next week too? I was wiped on the last round of FEC just felt like I was wading through water rather than walking if oyu know what I mean but I’m really glad to say that is really going now (along with the fat I loaded on, I have just gone mad for fruit and there’s loads of exoctic things at good prices at the mo).

Lisa… take it you’re recovering well then? Did you see the stuff about PARP inhibitors, because that’s some good news if you are BRCA at least. Is it Pat you’re seeing for your results, she was really good with me and a fountain of knowledge IMO. Good luck anyway, and if you do need another mastectomy you’ll manage I promise, I’m personally glad to now that to worry too much about local recurrence and I would have done with my diagnosis anyway.

Kirsty, well done on finishing and rads really do fly by don’t they in comparison. My skin is getting itchy now but there was virtually no effects at the time so keep using the cream. As for hot sweats don’t really know apart from a water spray (my mum swears by a bush remedy caleld solaris, she’s just sprays her face) I’ve always gone by cold flannel on the neck for heat stroke if that helps.

Lily you know I might have to write a list of some of the best descriptions of side effects and strangely I know exactly what you mean by “licking a thousand envelopes” . At the moment the wedding plans consist of finding my driving licence so we can do thw whole declaring our intentions thing. The main thing right now is getting everything sorted so Tommy’s gallery opening goes OK at the end of the month. Soooo much to sort out but it’s nice to be doing that kind of thing again and this time it’s not causing me any stress at all, I’ve changed and it’s not all bad :slight_smile:

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Hi,
Angie, yes that was the penultimate one, with the big finale on Tuesday, all being well. Julia finishes Iv then but has one drug by tablets so has to gulp a few more days before we both throw our knickers in the air!!! It is a tricky decision with the steroids, my dose should be 4 for 2 days, but I am going to do either 3 and 3 or 3 and 2 depending how I feel. the onc said that should be fine and really let me do what I want. I have a mediterranean tan tonight so that means the steroids are coming in hard, also eyes are a little blurry. I am not willing to chance a big reaction after getting so far on now. I see the prof next Thursday and get referred straight to cardio vascular team for an op to take out the port then get a bit of healing time before rads. I have plenty of graphic descriptions for your list!!! Like I’ve been lying in the sahara all night with my mouth open, or my favourite 'I’ve been licking a labrador all night, not sure which end! Good luck with the gallery opening and finding your driving license.
I am buzzing and showing no signs of being sleepy, might try a bath and a heavy duty book.
take care everyone, lots of bugs about right now. Julia hope you are chugging along ok
Lily x

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Hi: It’s my Thursday catch –up as I’m back in office doing v. boring things, but they pay me so I don’t care!!

Lilly: going back a bit, saw you comment about Herceptin and being Hormone receptive – I am also hormone receptive but my path report says “weakly – 2 out of 8” whatever that means. Where did you find that out? I haven’t seen it anywhere.

And you can’t leave me! Even if I have the herceptin I will still be going the 15 rads and hormone stuff as well so will still need a hand to hold!! We will have to have another thread – Post Chemo buddies perhaps??

Interested in the different types of tamoxifen. My BCN will do my last dose of poison next week so I can ask loads of questions. That will be one of them assuming she convinces me that Tam is better for me than Arimidex - the pre and post menopausal thingy.

The tablets are OK, just have to remember to take them, they don’t seem to have any side effects which is good.

We can take Super Trooper by Abba as our theme. Still can’t wait for next week to be over, I get so sick of being stabbed and mucked about. I can’t wait to get the all clear so I don’t have to go back to that bloody hospital any more.

Angie: glad your rads are over, still have that to look forward (!!!) to from 5 January but at least I get some time off to recover from one thing before they hit with another. Yesterday found a vein first time – I have been very naughty and chomping down tissue salts for varicose veins – don’t know if this helped!

Nicky – well done with your dinner for 10 – I had sister and hubby to lunch on Sunday and was so knackered I slept for 9 hours Sunday night – can’t ever remember doing that before. How long am I going to sleep after lunch for 15 on 7 Dec – about three days I think!

Lorraine: Gosh you are having problems, hope things are better for you all.

Nicky – love the bit about Eric Morecombe glasses – I do that as well – scratch my head and the glasses go all over the place.

Well that will do for now. Oh, got my new baby car on Monday – the boot is a joke rather like a big handbag but should save me a fortune in fuel and rental from Peugeot and concentrate the mind when shopping. Still aiming for the champers on last chemo pill night.

Love and hugs to all.

LOL

Julia

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Hi All

Lily and Julia - Congratulations on coming to the end of your chemo. It is a great feeling knowing that we have all gone through so much and there is a light at the end if the tunnel.

Hi Angie - rads is a breeze compared to chemo, especially the side effects. My skin is itching especially around the nipple, E45 cream is working well and relieving the itchiness. The treatment is flying by and so quick. It will be a really wierd, but fantastic feeling on tuesday, knowing there will be no more treatment.

Once I am cleared from the hospital, i am really looking forward to getting back to work in January. Will only be allowed to go back part time for 6 weeks… company policy. It makes good sense, because the effects of treatment can still effect you for months.

Take care everyone :slight_smile:

Kirsty xxx

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Hi all you lovely ladies.
So good to hear all your news, especially Kirsty who went AWOL for a while!
Lily and Julia - nearly there, big celebrations when chemo’s over. When do you finish Julia? Can’t remember the exact date but from Lily’s post I’m assuming it’s not all over for you on Tues? Hope you are both doing well and getting over these side effects.
Kirsty - good luck finishing the rads next week, you’ll wonder what to do with yourself! Assume there’s no more treatment for you at the hospital but are you on hormone drugs?
Lisa - hope you’re still doing well and expect full update, if you want to give it, when you’re back to your own pc. Hope you’ve been well looked after and not suffering with any aches and pains.
Angie, find that licence! then you can let us all know about the big day so we can celebrate cyber stylie! Hope Tommy’s gallery opening goes well and you have lots of interest - and sales! Great to be moving onwards into a more normal life!
Julia - I for one won’t be leaving you, I’m here for the long haul unfortunately and am still having regular hospital treatment for my bones. At least it’s nothing compared to chemo though, no side effects just a quick game of hunt the vein! How long are you on Herceptin for?
Lorraine. Bev and anyone else - hope you are doing well and not missing chemo one bit!
I’m still sorting out various medications and will be asking for opinions/experiences of different AI’s on another thread as I should be back on them in a week or so. My palpitations haven’t gone completely although they have improved a bit. Unfortunately I think it’s down to the menopause as this can bring them on and the sharp drop in my oestrogen probably hasn’t helped. Still need to speak to cardiologist - nice to see they rushed that appt through! And can then see what they recommend. Also I’ve had my rads dates today. Planning next Monday then 3 zaps on alternate days the following week. At least I’ll be well clear of Christmas if I get any problems. Don’t worry I know this is a stupid thing for me to say - there’s bound to be problems! By the way, just asking about the H question - how is everyone’s doing, especially those, like me, who lost all or most of it? Mine is growing fairly rapidly now but I’m sure I’ll need to cut it to get rid of the wiry bit that grew 1st. I’m hoping by the New Year I’ll feel confident to go out in public with it. Also I’ve notice on my nails where I stopped chemo! they are a differnt colour and don’t have that lovely ridge that was bending them over like witches nails!
Anyway must dash, family to feed.
Hope you are all doing well and take care
Nicky xx

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Hi everyone,
well it was a tricky decision but decided that I would put up with the blurred vision rather than chancing a potentially bigger reaction to the cyclophosphamide at the final but one hurdle. So I took 3 steroids yesterday and 2 today instead of 4 dex on each day. Last night I was up till 2am and then wide awake at 7.30 hence going to 2 today. I feel more sleepy today but can’t even focus in the other side of the lounge and sitting on top of the tv to watch it! They have moved my appointmnet up to Tuesday straight after chemo to discuss the next step, assuming I can wake up from the piriton that is! I will have to write everything down. I was interested in that tamoxifen piece on the news tonight and hope it helps a lot of people. So what hormones should I expect/hope to get? I am hormone receptive but only about 100 out of 300 so not particularly strongly. No monthlies for a year but no symptoms either. So not impressed to hear that even if I am post menopausal I will still get hot flushes on it!! Why? Also has anyone got any info on nolvadex-d, which is apparently better. Any thoughts would be appreciated as I will need to write everything down as will be like a wilted lettuce when I see him. I guess the hormones start straight after, maybe a fortnight off for the surgery. Rads planning is end of November.
Julia I am in awe that you are at work when I can’t even recognise the dog with my blurred eyes? Wonder woman! I am alittle confused as to why you are having herceptin if you are hormone positive. i thought it was k=just for HER+++ or are you both? The onc said I had about 100 receptive cells out of 300, which is about 1/4 where as mine is 1/3 so very little difference there. I have not been brave enough/ allowed to see my path report so going on memory and what was disclosed. Don’t worry I am not going anywhere, hope to hang on to you guys for a very long time, ideally us all being old and wrinkly. Glad they got your vein first go, first stab in the chest for me too. Love super trooper theme, am singing it now! At least moving my visit up means one less day in the hospital, I agree we almost have our own seats in there! Hope you are enjoying the car and stay well for the final onslaught, day 8 challenge x. Kirsty well done, you have been a real trooper too and fab to be off rads soon. Are you on hormone tablets next, if so which? I hope to go back to work in Jan soon, the kids in my tutor group all sent me silly photos and made me miss them today. I have to insist on going back full time as losing half pay every month from now on and losing quite a chunk of our budget, especially with Christmas and 2 of the children’s birthdays and we like to really treat them. They are great about it but it means just 2 of our 4 got a budget birthday and I like to treat them all the same. Nicky - nice to read one of your lovely big posts. I am ok just slightly delicate, nothing major so far! 191 days on chemo done and 5 to go. Yaa hoo. I will be posting for a long time too, we should decide whether to stay here or move. I like our giant thread but would be happy to move anywhere. I am glad you are having less palpitations but wish they had gone completely. When do you see the cardiologist? I guess the rads are for your ovaries, that all happened nice and quickly. Does that mean you have stopped the nasty injections? Hey be positive maybe this bit will go really well and time to be better for Christmas sounds great. I was really surprised how having my hair cut a little and dying it to make it block together made my hair look twicee as much as before. I would say go and see a hairdresser you trust and ask their advice. Mine said snipping the ends off and massaging the head helps a lot. She also said use vit E on your head but I haven’t yet. Hope yours puts in abig appearance soon.
Lisa, Bevy hope you are both on the mend. Angie keep making all those plans, sound very exciting. Lorraine hope everyone your end is getting sorted out and cared for x.
I can see stupid Belkin is not flashing, broadband is all over the place today so will try to save it first.
Take care everyone
Lily x

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Here I am again catching up with the most recent messages!

Nicky: I have the last poison jab on Tuesday but then have another 7 days of the C thingy by tablets, but that is easy, just remembering when to take them. Am taking the last one with champagne with the neighbours to celebrate finishing!! Thanks for staying with me - this supports has been essential. Don’t know about the Herceptin, have got a dicky ticker (as they say in 'Ello 'Ello) so may not be able to have it anyway – got the nuclear medicine scan at the end of December. But as Lily says later, don’t understand why they are talking about that when I am HR positive but at a very low level – weakly responsive my path report says – 2 out of 8, whatever that means but will certainly find out before I agree to anything. When I had my chemo on Tuesday, it was the unit manager that did the dirty deed. When I said I wasn’t too keen on Herceptin, she said I was the only person she had ever heard say that. She then said that as it was still a new drug they weren’t completely sure about the side effects and that is why they monitor people so closely. Not closely enough from what I have read. I think most people read the newspaper stuff about it being a wonder drug and don’t do any research.

Angie: forgot to say the other day, good luck with the gallery opening, let’s all hope it goes well especially in the current self-inflicted climate.

H is coming back, black and very fine but mostly around the sides and back but not much on top – may have to have toupee!!! My hairdresser says I should have it all cut off so the regrowth will be stronger – not sure about that but will go back to see him next week. Have been using the Vit E which is quite sticky and been taking the Brewers Yeast – which I probably shouldn’t but what the hell, I’m nearly at the end!

Lily: your comments about the hormone stuff, post menopausal, is what I have been going on about for ages. Still have to do the chat with onc and get a proper answer. Didn’t hear about the tam stuff on news, where was it so I can try to read. Ditto the Herceptin – doesn’t make sense. Having read some of the threads on the herceptin forum, with women having heart failure and ending up on beta blockers for the rest of their life, don’t fancy it anyway.

Had really aching chemo veins last night, you could see the long blue vein going up to my inner elbow. Gave it some massage with the cortisone cream and a couple of high strength Ibuprofen tabs and went to bed. Better this morning.

Hope everyone else is feeling OK and looking forward to the weekend. Doing some cook ahead stuff for the lunch in December - aim to have most of it pre-done and in the freezer.

Anyone watching Strictly? WIll John Sargeant slaughter another dance and still get thru? Used to do all that stuff and teach when I was about 20, so am a “good footwork” freak. Didn’t bare quite so much flesh in my day!!

Talk again soon.

LOL

Julia

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Hey Julia.

I bought the yeast but after far too many run ins with thrust during chemo I decided taking yeast would be a bad idea for now, but I’ve also been using vit e oil instead of cream and massaging it in mixed with conditioner (even the conditioners organic and got rosemary oil in it which stimulates the folicles) all is well and growing faster every day.

Yeah for fuzz on the head.

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Hi all
Scary stuff - we all know how to identify Angie now! Nice to put an face to someone I (and we) have shared so much with over the last few months. Surprised it got through! Lovely photos as well, what an uplifting part of the country to live in - lucky you.
Missed the bit about tamoxifen as well but guess it doesn’t apply to me now so will concentrate on getting my A I’s right. Haven’t had cardiologist appt yet which is b**dy marvellous considering the problems I’m still having! Have upped my beta blockers to help things along until then, GP reluctant to change too much. Yes, rads are to ovaries, which will hopefully be quick and painfree although I think I’ll be sitting on the loo alot after them as it may affect me that way (in fact why don’t `I just say it WILL affect me that way!) Glad they’ve come through quickly though and not more Mr massive needle for me!
Don’t know anything about Nolvadex but can only assume it’s alot more expensive than Tam as it’s not mentioned very often. Maybe start a thread on here to ask if anyone’s on it? Hope you climb down soon Lily, way hay, only a few more days to go until it’s over (well, the really grotty bit anyway), hope you’re doing well and can enjoy the weekend. And Julia as well. Again I don’t know much about HER+ as I’m not but my onc did say she would be surprised if I was HER+ as I am so hormone positive so maybe they don’t usually go hand in hand? I’m sure there will be a good reason to put you on it if they say so. Don’t talk about dodgy tickers though! I’m so fed up with mine but I’m sure I can get it sorted, thank goodness I didn’t need Herceptin, I don’t think they would have given it to me anyway with all these problems.
I think I will get my hairdresser to have a go at my hair in a few weeks. He’s a very good friend of ours who I haven’t seen in ages, obviously! I’m using a special shampoo for thinning hair (plus conditioner and scalp therapy whatever that is) that I got off him at the beginning and it’s either working well or my hair decided to burst out of my head anyway. However a mini trim of the bad bits may do it some good plus I can have a good old gossip with him - good idea!
Hope you all have a good weekend. Off to see 007 tonight and then a nice quiet weekend with no ‘entertaining’ to do.
Take care
Nicky xx

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Nicky I just posted the link to you the others wont have seen it but if anyone wants to just shout and I’ll PM you the link so you can see what my shiny new hair looks like :wink:

Hope you get the cardiologist soon Nicky, oh how you must love the wait LOL :wink: Hope Bond distracts you and is good, haven’t made it to the cinema yet.

Julia, Lily… you’re sooo close. Have a great weekend.

Lots of love

Angie