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FranP
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14 years ago

Radiotherapy lungs

Hi it's sooky Fran again....ha ha,

I have had chest xrays recently because I have had a lot of pain four years down the track and still in pain. Anyway no cancer but my right lung is partly collapsed can't do anything about it they will keep an eye on it but are not worried mmmmmmmm

Anyway I asked if it could be from the Radiotherapy and was just told mmm more than likely yes - and the rib pain is also from that, I asked if this was permanent and told this far down the track - yes it will be. 

 

so any one else out there have any of these probs the oncologist said it was the treatments i had ie chemo and radio the types. ? the the bright red crap a clear crap and milky crap couldnt be bothered looking up the names again. and then 7 weeks 5 days a week radio????

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  • FranP's avatar
    FranP
    Member
    14 years ago

    broken dolls hee hee very good. , leonie when i finished chemo the nurses at want gave me a small baby bottle of champgne i still have it haven't drunk it yet will when i get to ten years should be okay i hope. 

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    TonyaM
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    14 years ago

    Yaay Leonie,no more chemo.I hope you celebrate soon when you feel better. I don't want to go on the bc ride again either-twice is enough.Part of me thinks oh surely that's the end of of it and another part thinks it's just a matter of time  before it rears it's ugly head again.Maybe we just need a few years distance to get our confidence back.I broke my ankle a few years ago and have had 3 lots of operations on it -it's still not right.So very hard for me to get some fitness back. I think we are all falling to bits! Well it is downright freezing here in Sydney.I'm loving it- not one hot flush last night! Ok,I'm done with the sooking now,good night fellow broken dolls.

                                      Tonya xx

  • FranP's avatar
    FranP
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    14 years ago

    yeah some good some not so good. a man missing near mount buller. but they are getting bumper snow falls but gee it's cold. 

    CONGRATULATIONS NO MORE CHEMO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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    Leonie_Moore
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    14 years ago

    Hi girls,  Yes I hear what you say but what other choices do we have.  I think in another lifetime they (professionals and I suppose us) will look back and say "You had what and they did what - how barbaric".  I have just finished chemo today and I never want any more treatment.  I will probably have to go back on Arimidex once I see the Medical Oncologist on 23rd June - not looking forward to that!!!  It is sh..... - I can't even have a cup of tea at night time as it makes me ill.  I have a month to "ride the tide" and then I start "living again".  I think I have done my penance with BC and don't want to have it in my health chart again.  A little voice keeps says "don't forget the first surgeon (now retired) said that you were at high risk of the bc returning in the other breast".  Shit I have got to turn that little sucker voice OFF.  I live with pain in my radiated arm every minute of every day and still find it difficult to do much with it.  I know it is early days yet and the chemo finds the vunerable parts so this adds to it.  At this stage I am so grateful that there is little lymphodema and hope it stays that way.  I look forward to being able to have my maintenance lymphatic drainage massages again once chemo is out of my system.  I also look forward to regaining some strength so that I can get some fitness back.  I know from last time it took about 3 years to feel close to being back pre BC fit.  So it really is a sooky day and outside is so cold and bleak here and apparently it is going to get colder -coming from down south.  Thanks girls!!!!  Heh Fran a lot of media about Mansfield of late.  All good stuff.  You're on the map.  XLeonie

  • FranP's avatar
    FranP
    Member
    14 years ago

    yeah i do get very short of breath and light headed and it's not cause i am blonde ha ha,

    yeah i reckon alot of the treatment is all experimental and we are the test dummies,

    oh well at least we are here to sook about it i guess, but unreal how they have to almost kill you to keep you alive doesnt seem right to me i can understand why some like Ann dont want chemo. nearly killed me. and i am still paying for it. shouldnt be like that as i know there is always people worse off,  and i know because i trained with  Sam and what she has to endure is so wrong.just not fair but we can't change things unfortunately.

    thanks for the goss.x

  • FranP's avatar
    FranP
    Member
    14 years ago

    yeah i do get very short of breath and light headed and it's not cause i am blonde ha ha,

    yeah i reckon alot of the treatment is all experimental and we are the test dummies,

    oh well at least we are here to sook about it i guess, but unreal how they have to almost kill you to keep you alive doesnt seem right to me i can understand why some like Ann dont want chemo. nearly killed me. and i am still paying for it. shouldnt be like that as i know there is always people worse off,  and i know because i trained with  Sam and what she has to endure is so wrong.just not fair but we can't change things unfortunately.

    thanks for the goss.x

  • FranP's avatar
    FranP
    Member
    14 years ago

    yeah i do get very short of breath and light headed and it's not cause i am blonde ha ha,

    yeah i reckon alot of the treatment is all experimental and we are the test dummies,

    oh well at least we are here to sook about it i guess, but unreal how they have to almost kill you to keep you alive doesnt seem right to me i can understand why some like Ann dont want chemo. nearly killed me. and i am still paying for it. shouldnt be like that as i know there is always people worse off,  and i know because i trained with  Sam and what she has to endure is so wrong.just not fair but we can't change things unfortunately.

    thanks for the goss.x

  • TonyaM's avatar
    TonyaM
    Member
    14 years ago

    Sooky Tonya here.I have one sore rib -more noticeable since the mastectomy. My bra rubs on it and I'm putting it down to radiation.You have to worry about the side effects later on from all these treatments.I'm seriously questioning my radiation treatment cos it didn't stop a cancer cell from growing back 7yrs later. Infact I think it may have caused this latest breast cancer cos it grew from nothing to 3cms in 1 year and supposedly not aggressive. Your partially collapsed lung sounds radiation related rather than chemo related.Do you get breathless?Hey,just one more ailment to add to the list and boy is my list getting long!!

                                     Tonya xx