Heart Question?
Hello all, its been a hot minute since I've been on here, but I'm back with a heart related question please? After my treatments chemo, stopped in Easter this year, long story but I got 1/2 way th...
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Hi @arpie thank you for your reply, I'm turning 52 this December - no pain, just fluid retention in my ankles and legs.
I have this since I can remember like young adulthood (I think) fluid retention in my hand and fingers, since the radiation the shortness if breath have become more notice able, along with the fatigue, I've always suffered with dizziness, light headedness -
I always put it down to low bp, I now retain fluid in my underarm and left breast since they took all the nodes, so I try my best to stay on top of that too, there is just so much to try and juggle now with all the extra side effects and health matters since breast cancer.
My second b/c surgery is also not far off its 1st year mark, November this year,
until I can get in and see this cardiologist I can only start to guess what will the the treatment plan, and everything else,
I've done a bit of a google search with the finding my oncologist told me they have found, and if it is what its come back at, then I'm 100% certain this is the same heart condition, my late mother had before her life was cut short of a heart attack at the age of 57, one month off her 58th birthday, 19 years ago,
Mum didn't tell any of us she was on heart medication, I found that after her passing in her bedroom, and didn't know why she had been put on heart medication, I put a call through to her medical clinic the other day, but of course as its been so long now all her medical records have been destroyed,
the oncologist has said that the heart is still pumping well and the arteries that take in the blood are also working well, its the thickening of the heart chambers on the outside wall, that is present, now compared to the echo before the chemo and radiation started.
Its just another waiting game again, and think wat now??
bit like when the GP tells us we have breast cancer, next stop the hospital team, and your left sitting there wondering what the, till you get that 1st appointment to explain about the cancer that has been found and what the plan is etc.
I just like to arm myself with as much information as I can these days, ive been on the health journey thanks to this breast cancer, long enough to know you have to do your home work, to ask all the question you can,
again thanks for you response
I have this since I can remember like young adulthood (I think) fluid retention in my hand and fingers, since the radiation the shortness if breath have become more notice able, along with the fatigue, I've always suffered with dizziness, light headedness -
I always put it down to low bp, I now retain fluid in my underarm and left breast since they took all the nodes, so I try my best to stay on top of that too, there is just so much to try and juggle now with all the extra side effects and health matters since breast cancer.
My second b/c surgery is also not far off its 1st year mark, November this year,
until I can get in and see this cardiologist I can only start to guess what will the the treatment plan, and everything else,
I've done a bit of a google search with the finding my oncologist told me they have found, and if it is what its come back at, then I'm 100% certain this is the same heart condition, my late mother had before her life was cut short of a heart attack at the age of 57, one month off her 58th birthday, 19 years ago,
Mum didn't tell any of us she was on heart medication, I found that after her passing in her bedroom, and didn't know why she had been put on heart medication, I put a call through to her medical clinic the other day, but of course as its been so long now all her medical records have been destroyed,
the oncologist has said that the heart is still pumping well and the arteries that take in the blood are also working well, its the thickening of the heart chambers on the outside wall, that is present, now compared to the echo before the chemo and radiation started.
Its just another waiting game again, and think wat now??
bit like when the GP tells us we have breast cancer, next stop the hospital team, and your left sitting there wondering what the, till you get that 1st appointment to explain about the cancer that has been found and what the plan is etc.
I just like to arm myself with as much information as I can these days, ive been on the health journey thanks to this breast cancer, long enough to know you have to do your home work, to ask all the question you can,
again thanks for you response