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What changes have been made in 10 years?
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I finished my 3rd of six chemo rounds today!!half way there! Woo hoo! In two weeks I'll have a status check MRI. I can feel the tumor shrinking so should be good news!!!
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anonymous
Survivor since 2011
Yeah!!!!! For you!!!! God bless
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anonymous
Survivor since 2011
I could feel my tumor shrinking too and I had a total response!! There was nothing left in the breast or nodes after completing 8 rounds of chemo. Good luck!! Keep envisioning that tumor GONE!!!!!
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Today is my last day of chemo! Surgery in a month then reconstruction! whoo hoo
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anonymous
Stage 2B Patient
Yay I am happy for you! I have two more chemos and then I will be doing the happy dance with you! Do something special to celebrate this milestone! You've earned it. Vicki
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anonymous
Stage 1 Patient
Congratulations Kim! Another milestone completed on our road to recovery!!!!!!
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Finished radiation yesterday!! Now just waiting for my liver to get better so I can start tamoxifen ;)
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anonymous
Survivor since 2007
YAHOOOO! Each completed portion of your treatment plan is another step to getting back to normal life. This is a BIG ONE!!!! You go girl! Hang in there and take care, Sharon
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anonymous
Survivor since 2011
Cancer loses!!! Good work Congrats
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3 weeks after mastectomy, I still have scabs... is that normal?
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Survivor since 2011-
anonymous
Survivor since 2009
Hi.
I suggest you visit with your doctor about the scabs after the mastectomy. I would think that different bodies heal at different rates. To have scabs 3 weeks after a mastectomy does not sound unreasonable to me, but then I'm not a doctor or a health care provider.
Hang in there and good...4 comments 0Hi.
I suggest you visit with your doctor about the scabs after the mastectomy. I would think that different bodies heal at different rates. To have scabs 3 weeks after a mastectomy does not sound unreasonable to me, but then I'm not a doctor or a health care provider.
Hang in there and good luck.
~ Jo Ann, survivor since 2009
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How long after mastectomy can you get reconstruction done?
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anonymous
Survivor since 2006
I had a bilateral masectomy in May, got expandersat that time, but won't get implants until Feb. I had massive amounts of sernoma fluid for 10 weeks--600 to 700 ml. For 10 weeks. Then I got an infection that required IV meds 7 weeks. One expander came loose and had to be redone in August. I...
Comment 0I had a bilateral masectomy in May, got expandersat that time, but won't get implants until Feb. I had massive amounts of sernoma fluid for 10 weeks--600 to 700 ml. For 10 weeks. Then I got an infection that required IV meds 7 weeks. One expander came loose and had to be redone in August. I am finally healing and look good.
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anonymous
Stage 2B Patient
I had a tissue expander placed at the same time as my mastectomy, and the slowly filled it starting just three weeks later. I started chemo after the mastectomy, so I have to wait 6-8 weeks after chemo is finished. I am sure each doctor has their own preferences for a timeline.
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I just had a bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders 2 weeks ago. When I am given the ok for exercise, will I be limited? I love to run and I take a variety of classes, some include weights.
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anonymous
Survivor since 2007
Laura,
You WILL get back to running, weights, and all your activities! Just a Marianne says, your doctor will give you guidelines but they want us to get back to our normal lives asap. I am back to my normal life doing all the stuff I did with my horses before I had breast cancer. Women who...Comment 1Laura,
You WILL get back to running, weights, and all your activities! Just a Marianne says, your doctor will give you guidelines but they want us to get back to our normal lives asap. I am back to my normal life doing all the stuff I did with my horses before I had breast cancer. Women who have breast cancer and are treated just have a little blip of time in our lives when our schedules are a bit disrupted. The best advice my doctor gave me after my treatment was to "Go live your life!" Hang in there! Take care, Sharon -
anonymous
Learning About Breast Cancer
I agree I went to physical therapy before my replacement surgery, and after my replacement surgery. That is the best way to start moving. I agree listen to your body. Make sure you communicate to your Dr.
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I'm status post bilateral mastectomies and in the process of chemotherapy. My cancer is stage two and had 10 lymph nodes removed. I have lymph edema. My question is that I really want to run in the future. Is that ever going to be possible???
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anonymous
Patient
After I recovered from mastectomy And a miscarriage i walked -jogged- 3 miles every day. Then I was able to run 3-5 miles for the countdown to my chemo even that very morning before I received chemo I ran , my mantra was "screw u cancer , not gonna stop me".... Now im almost 6 weeks out of...
3 comments 1After I recovered from mastectomy And a miscarriage i walked -jogged- 3 miles every day. Then I was able to run 3-5 miles for the countdown to my chemo even that very morning before I received chemo I ran , my mantra was "screw u cancer , not gonna stop me".... Now im almost 6 weeks out of chemo but still getting Herceptin I'm back to running 3 miles everymorning "slow but steady " .. And i do strength training exercises , eventually I hope to train for a triathlon I'm no athlete by any means im just not gonna b taken down by this crap not gonna stop me ! You will get your running stride again , one step , one boob , at a time ;-)
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anonymous
Survivor since 2011
Yes! You can do anything you work hard enough to do. We have cancer it doesn't have us. We have to be smart but we can do and be what want.
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Last chemo today yipee can not believe how quickly it has gone, start rads on 4th September. The light is getting near x x
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anonymous
Learning About Breast Cancer
Thank you all for the lovely comments, I really can not believe how quickly it has gone. Good luck to all still in chemo it will be done before you know it , lots of hugs to all x x
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anonymous
Survivor since 2007
YIPPEE!!!! What a great place to be. You made it through the chemo and now on to another step.... closer and closer to the end of your treatment. We are all celebrating with you! Pony-Fur Hugs to you! Sharon
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- Bilateral Mastectomy
- Breast Reconstruction
- Chemotherapy
- Exercise
- Expanders
- Healing
- Hope
- Liver
- Lymphedema
- Lymph Nodes
- Mastectomy
- Mri
- Physical Therapy
- Post Mastectomy
- Post Surgery
- Radiation
- Rads
- Reconstruction
- Run
- Running
- Scabs
- Skin
- Stage 2
- Surgery
- Tamoxifen
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- Tissue Expanders
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