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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We are all from NZ, so mums GP was back in Christchurch NZ, I moved to Perth 08 after her passing in Jan of 05, now in QLD Brisbane since 2018, I've told the GP about my mother, its noted, but no one takes me seriously at all. It seems to be the way with Dr's I've come across over my life.
Mum was a diabetic for many years,
So far the GP has tried to say the typical loose weight, due to your BMI I'm classed as obsess (thanks so much) I'M only 5 foot 1 so of course any weight I do carry is classed as over weight, and you have vertigo, my med team like to fat shame me, with you must loose weight, blah blah blah,
I'm getting to the point that I most likely need to live at the gym or the pool 24 7 and not eat to make them happy,
They forget that menopause makes you gain weight and hold fluid, along with the side effects to the cancer treatments too, but all they can say is loose weight, my original oncologist told me I was meant to loose weight and not put weight on while under chemo, that was very nice of him, I fired him not long after that comment,
Brother is now a diabetic, partly inherited, mostly poor life style choices, he has high blood pressure .
So yes I'm thinking it was an inherited cardio issue that was brought to light after all this breast cancer treatment,
Yes left breast with the deep breath holding pattern done during the treatments,
Yes both breast cancers were in the left, first medical team left the cancer behind in the lymph nodes giving me a false negative result, and everything was clear, with in 8 months a reoccurrence had happened in the breast and the cancer still in nodes, its been a journey that's for real, clearly I switched out medical teams and hospitals to the one I'm with now after the 1st muck up.
I expressed my up most concern about radiation, and the possible side effects to the heart prior to treatment, only to be again dismissed and told its very very rare.
Due to my mother passing of a heart attack, again not really listened to, as radiation is a must have part of this course, I personally didn't want radiation, but only agreed to it for the sake of my husband and sons wishes that I try to kick the cancer in the butt this time around.
but her I am!
yes will be very keen to hear what the medical team in the cardio department have to say and recommend.
possibly more monitoring I would think? hopefully no medication at this point.
Mum was a diabetic for many years,
So far the GP has tried to say the typical loose weight, due to your BMI I'm classed as obsess (thanks so much) I'M only 5 foot 1 so of course any weight I do carry is classed as over weight, and you have vertigo, my med team like to fat shame me, with you must loose weight, blah blah blah,
I'm getting to the point that I most likely need to live at the gym or the pool 24 7 and not eat to make them happy,
They forget that menopause makes you gain weight and hold fluid, along with the side effects to the cancer treatments too, but all they can say is loose weight, my original oncologist told me I was meant to loose weight and not put weight on while under chemo, that was very nice of him, I fired him not long after that comment,
Brother is now a diabetic, partly inherited, mostly poor life style choices, he has high blood pressure .
So yes I'm thinking it was an inherited cardio issue that was brought to light after all this breast cancer treatment,
Yes left breast with the deep breath holding pattern done during the treatments,
Yes both breast cancers were in the left, first medical team left the cancer behind in the lymph nodes giving me a false negative result, and everything was clear, with in 8 months a reoccurrence had happened in the breast and the cancer still in nodes, its been a journey that's for real, clearly I switched out medical teams and hospitals to the one I'm with now after the 1st muck up.
I expressed my up most concern about radiation, and the possible side effects to the heart prior to treatment, only to be again dismissed and told its very very rare.
Due to my mother passing of a heart attack, again not really listened to, as radiation is a must have part of this course, I personally didn't want radiation, but only agreed to it for the sake of my husband and sons wishes that I try to kick the cancer in the butt this time around.
but her I am!
yes will be very keen to hear what the medical team in the cardio department have to say and recommend.
possibly more monitoring I would think? hopefully no medication at this point.