Next phase ... Chemo on Monday
Hi, After the lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy op, then next op of total axillary clearance of my right arm, I am now up to chemo. It starts on Monday. I am HER2 positive, grade 3, so will be havi...
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Hi ladies, thank you for the bonzer replies and info!
@Unicornkisses I have just added those juicing items to my shopping list ... been threatening to shop for two weeks now! To be crude, Jennie, these last few days I have been living from one bowel motion to the next! Having been doing the metamucil, 2, 3x daily and added the 2 coloxyl - testing to see if I can tolerate them 3x a day without getting the screaming ()-#@!!! The chemist said avoid sennocort sp? which I had used as it just encourages the colon to contract and can hurt. It also requires more to get the same induced contraction. She said the coloxyl is a stool softener so should hurt less. My butt is so sore, no bleeding but each trip to the loo makes the eyes water. Am sure there are razor blades down there! You are a trooper Jennie ... writing only 6 days after mastectomy! I hope you mend well and am wondering if down the tract you would say the surgery is easier on the body than the chemo, rad and other? Having the mastectomy will require more healing time and soreness I imagine, and then there are other body issues to work out. I don't know as it is complex compared with lumpectomy. Just personally I wish I could have had my lumpectomy and axillary clearance and that was it! Guess it's still on the table...just don't want my tombstone to read "She died because of a sore butt. Now she will never see Paris!"
@Unicornkisses I have just added those juicing items to my shopping list ... been threatening to shop for two weeks now! To be crude, Jennie, these last few days I have been living from one bowel motion to the next! Having been doing the metamucil, 2, 3x daily and added the 2 coloxyl - testing to see if I can tolerate them 3x a day without getting the screaming ()-#@!!! The chemist said avoid sennocort sp? which I had used as it just encourages the colon to contract and can hurt. It also requires more to get the same induced contraction. She said the coloxyl is a stool softener so should hurt less. My butt is so sore, no bleeding but each trip to the loo makes the eyes water. Am sure there are razor blades down there! You are a trooper Jennie ... writing only 6 days after mastectomy! I hope you mend well and am wondering if down the tract you would say the surgery is easier on the body than the chemo, rad and other? Having the mastectomy will require more healing time and soreness I imagine, and then there are other body issues to work out. I don't know as it is complex compared with lumpectomy. Just personally I wish I could have had my lumpectomy and axillary clearance and that was it! Guess it's still on the table...just don't want my tombstone to read "She died because of a sore butt. Now she will never see Paris!"