Pre-menopause Hormone pos: HER2 neg
Hi all even my discussion title makes me breath deeply. I’m 42 and was diagnosed on Aug 11th. I’m half way through my radiotherapy and just found out I’ll be undergoing chemo too. I got my head somewh...
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We are all thrivers @NelSky, we just need to realise it ☺️. Which I admit can be very hard.
Good on you, every day getting closer to finishing another important step. For me, radiation whizzed by. But so does everything else. Look after your booby, it’s going through a lot. I’m sure you’re smothering it with lots of moisturiser and kind words.
I love the yoga part, reminds me I need to get back into it too 👌🏻. Appreciation for the small things, which actually add up and are very important.
About the test, I didn’t do it because it was really expensive, for a result that wouldn’t have been that conclusive anyway. I saw two medical oncologists while I was deciding if I should do chemo. The first one told me it wouldn’t help much doing the test, as you need to send the tumour for testing, and I had 4. 3 in right breast, 1 in left breast. Yes, they decided to have a party in my breasts. But my breasts were not happy about it and complained to the landlady, me, who had them evicted. The second onco told me that without the test, it was a grey area, but according to the free Predict tool online, it was looking like barely 1% benefit from it. He said due to my age I should do it, but that he was also very comfortable with me not doing it. Also, chemo to me means poisons that would have affected the rest of my body, which felt and still feels pretty great, so I decided I would like to keep my body in as optimal a working order as possible, so it can continue to serve me well and fight off anything else that decides to try and attack, for years to come. I am already on Zoladex and Letrozole, so I’m hoping that, with the mastectomies and the radiation, will be enough.
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