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Michigoose on Breast Cancer
Wednesday, April 04 2012
I was first diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer back in late 1997....this was a recurrence with mets to the bone, and a change from being er-/pr- to weakly positive to estrogen and strongly positive to progesterone. I went through 9 24-hour courses of Taxol spread over a 9 month period, followed by radiation, having my ovaries removed and... Read more
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Michigoose on Breast Cancer
Sunday, September 04 2011
I can't remember if I mentioned this here or not, but I was one of the lucky population who experienced severe blurriness of vision while receiving Abraxane (Paclitaxel protein bound with human albumen). It was bad enough that I had to give up driving . Evenings were particularly bad, but I couldn't read signs either.
I received my... Read more
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Michigoose on Breast Cancer
Sunday, August 21 2011
This is just an odditity...and I'm beginning to think that if it is strange, it will happen to me--but I wanted to share it so that if others see this show up then they might not be put into a panic mode. In 1994, I had a lumpectomy. In 1998 I had a stage IV recurrence and a mastectomy. In 2010 it came back with multiple... Read more
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Michigoose on Breast Cancer
Sunday, March 27 2011
I was in treatment the otherday and was talking to the lady next to me who was experiencing peripheral neuropathy. I described what mine was like (no tingling, just numbness as well as tenderness in my fingers and numbness in my feet..seems contradictory--but that's what it is) and said that it was a common side effect of the... Read more
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Michigoose on Breast Cancer
Friday, November 19 2010
Three weeks ago, I started weekly infusions of Abraxane (Paclitaxil protein-bound). I read all the manufacturer's listings of side-effects, talked with my oncologist, and did some other research, so I was pretty clear on what was listed.
Last week, I started getting small nose bleeds, really broken capilaries in my nose which, well,... Read more
