Video: Difficult Patients by Oncologist Brian Wojciechowski

You go girl!  Well done.  Like you, I too give my doctors a written list of questions and hand to them when I sit down.  It helps us both.  He knows what is really concerning me and can address those concerns before we start and I have a clear head not thinking about what concerns me.  We all have to be vigilant about our treatments.  I will relay this one experience to you I had after chemo and rads when I was put on Aramatose Inhibitors as part of my treatment as the carcinoma was estrogen positive.  I developed a severe infection in my breast and had constant Urinary Tract Infections.  At the same time I developed a rash over my body from rib cage to knees.  It resembled molten lava, my skin hardened and the itch near drove me crazy.  No treatment relieved it. I didn't sleep for a week.  My Specialist put me in hospital to try and clear the infections but kept trying different antibiotics thinking the rash was allergic reaction to antibiotics.  I eventually said to my husband the only thing I can think of in the past few weeks that has changed is I have been put on this drug Femera (Letrozole).  My husband went home and googled the drug and the side effects of severe allergy is exactly what I had been experiencing.  I immediately ceased the drug and the infections cleared up and the rash disappeared.  I bet there are a thousand stories on this site....