I have IBC
Hi Wendy
Yes I have inflammatory breast cancer. I was diagnosed 22 October 2010, almost 6 weeks ago. I am going through chemo now, so it has only just begun for me. It is a very scary time for me a...
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Wendy you really have been through a lot with your costochondritis and then to have a diagnosis of IBC I wish you all the best with what lies ahead for you. Making connections with people going through similar circumstances is very helpful for me to understand what is happening.
Well because I'm self-employed, I didn't do any mowing during the 18mths while I was taking chemo as I was quite ill and could hardly walk let alone concentrate on anything much, so it has only been since July last year after I had finished chemo and started to recovered, that I went back to work slowly, being on Tamoxifen I'm still getting pain in my body & cramps etc as well as mental confusion and just no emotions really - but I enjoy the work and the customers & I am just plodding along at present, our mowers are self-propelled so I only have to walk behind mine, just lifting the grass bags & whippersnipping takes it out of me though.
Maybe when you have your planning for your radiaition, let them know of your existing pain in your ribs and they can take all that into consideration.
The radiation I received was boosts every dose (25) and cut across the top of my heart & part of my left lung. It didn't have any effect on me except some mild redness (I used sorbelene cream), but months on I started to feel the effects with my skin and scar tightening up and I was having physiotherapy regularly to keep everything supple and stretched. The bone pain has only gotten worse recently (or maybe I have just started to realise what it is) with so many other things going on with my body.
You have to believe that the treatments are doing what they are ment to, I researched all the different types of chemo I received and have an understanding of how each worked in killing the cancerous cells, the blood tests you will be having will indicate how it is going and you will probably be having scans - it is a hard road but so many before us have come through with good results you have to give it a go. What else can you do? Keep moving forward one step at a time :)