Surgery Option or Not?
Hi Everyone, I was diagnosed de novo Stage 4 with breast, lymph node and bone/spine mets in Oct 2018. I've had really good response to treatment with Letrazole/Ribociclib/Denosumab whereby the breast ...
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Hi @elisewjk,
Fantastic that your response to the treatment has been good. There are always too many choices aren't there?
Have you requested an MRI? Only suggesting as it might give a clearer idea of size etc. Neither mammogram or u/sound could find my breast tumour,we knew it was there as my initial findings were in the lymph nodes. The MRI found it and it was exactly the size it said when they operated.
I had level 2 axillary clearance. 24 nodes out and 5 positive.
I regained full strength very quickly but you have to do your exercises and more if you can. I had a bit of cording at the beginnning but that was cleared up with a couple of physio sessions.
There was a lot of numbness for a while but it has returned to very close to normal these days. The sharp shooting pains are the nerves starting to fire up again. They lasted a few months then went. Annoying and take you a bit by surprise at times but they go.
Everyone is different but I was renovating, running the farm, mowing, fencing etc within a couple of months. Have had no trouble with lymphodema. The only thing that is a bit annoying is the vibration from the mower/blower vac those sort of vibratey things :) Not really a problem just feels a bit weird sometimes.
Best of luck with your decisions.
xoxoxoxo
Fantastic that your response to the treatment has been good. There are always too many choices aren't there?
Have you requested an MRI? Only suggesting as it might give a clearer idea of size etc. Neither mammogram or u/sound could find my breast tumour,we knew it was there as my initial findings were in the lymph nodes. The MRI found it and it was exactly the size it said when they operated.
I had level 2 axillary clearance. 24 nodes out and 5 positive.
I regained full strength very quickly but you have to do your exercises and more if you can. I had a bit of cording at the beginnning but that was cleared up with a couple of physio sessions.
There was a lot of numbness for a while but it has returned to very close to normal these days. The sharp shooting pains are the nerves starting to fire up again. They lasted a few months then went. Annoying and take you a bit by surprise at times but they go.
Everyone is different but I was renovating, running the farm, mowing, fencing etc within a couple of months. Have had no trouble with lymphodema. The only thing that is a bit annoying is the vibration from the mower/blower vac those sort of vibratey things :) Not really a problem just feels a bit weird sometimes.
Best of luck with your decisions.
xoxoxoxo