Firstly well done on nearly finishing chemo! As a fellow 3c'er I thought I'd chime in with my own experience. I was fixated on the stage 3c prognosis and my chances of recurrance, i felt i had a very high probability of it coming back. I wanted one foot still in the cancer centre whilst the other ex...
Chemo is tough, I felt like a frail zombie by the end of it and that was the age of 31 so I can't imagine what your mother must be going through. But here I am post chemo after also a Stage3C diagnosis and I am stronger than ever and back to the normalities of life. Your mother isn't dying but with ...
It's funny I remember whilst in hospital after the resection a doctor saying things (bms) won't ever be as they were before but she was wrong. I'm actually having better bms now than before resection and don't experience things like urgency or anything else untoward. It's hard to say how long it too...
Hello fellow IIIC I wanted to keep my port in for at least a year or two after chemo, but my Onc was insistent on it coming out and there was no arguing with her. My post chemo scan also showed two spots (one lung, one liver) whereas my pre chemo scan was clear of any spots. She wasn't concerned abo...
My first post chemo scan Oct 2016 showed a 3mm ill-defined ground glass nodule in my right lower lobe and a 1mm hypodense lesion in my liver. My latest scan Mar 2017 shows no lung nodules and the 1mm liver lesion is unchanged. So it goes to show spots can come and go as they please just to mess with...
Yes I had multiple delays throughout treatment due to low neutrophils . 7th cycle delayed for a week, then 8th cycle delayed by two weeks with a 20% dose reduction going forward. I didn't have the option of boosting my counts with neupogen etc as in Australia its not covered by the PBS (I think its ...
Personally i'm a believer in trying my very best, to give it my best shot the first time with no regrets, so I would only quit oxi if I really had no other choice. But thats me, theres no right or wrong to it. If your current dose is too much perhaps try a dose reduction first before giving up on th...
My neuropathy started after my last chemo treatment and is now constant - I thought I was lucky and escaped unscathed! It started off with a weird shiver/pins and needles down my lower calves to my feet multiple times a day which has now ceased but then I noticed my feet were numb and it has never l...
I've never had a PET scan. My post chemo baseline CT scan showed two spots, one on the liver and one on the lungs which were too small to characterise. My Onc said she was 99% sure it wasn't cancer but maybe they just say that so the patient doesn't worry :? and said my next scan would be in 12 mont...
It's very common to miss periods when going through folfox, the chemo can lead to infertility and also cause early menopause which is why people often freeze their eggs if they are planning to have a family in the future. I missed about half of mine when I was going through treatment, I raised it wi...
- have at least 4 cups of coffee a day (reduce recurrence by half??) - eat oily fish several times a week - exercise WOW 4+ cups of coffee a day?! I can hardly handle having one a day :shock: But thanks I will definitely look into this and see what further info I can find...and there I was thinking...
My Onc mentioned this study but i think I was too late to join...which I believe is a good thing (albeit selfishly) for me as i'd rather take aspirin than a placebo I was also told via a "you didn't hear this from me" that I should take it if I wanted to try everything possible to prevent ...