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Do not be stupid like I was as I didn't even know who was my doctor. RUN
- By dianeS · New reply 4:55 pm
- Journal · 3 replies
- I was seeing this new Internist for the first time(I do not like that there just isn't a "Family" Doctor,we only have specialist to see sometimes just unbelievable thing, that cost 20%more). I to this ...
New Picture
- By Lindakaylkw101 · New reply 3:29 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- one year and 8 months after chemo, a pic from my jazz chorus group profile. WHOO HOOO ...
SO excited to share what I have found!
- By pwrsrg77 · New reply 3:01 pm
- Journal · 43 replies
- I have received TONS of wonderful support from this amazing community of people just like myself. All that struggle with debilitating symptoms, wrong diagnosis, less than quality doctors etc... I wish ...
Got My Mask Made Today
- By paaatriot101 · New reply 1:34 pm
- Journal · 16 replies
- So yes got my mask made today. Not so bad as I thought it was going to be I guess. Then after the scans and simulation it was off for an MRI, and home again. Tomorrow morning we leave at about 6:30 for ...
November 22nd
- By wifeofhubby62 · New reply 12:46 pm
- Journal · 5 replies
- Bright and sunny hear in Pembroke, N.H. Levi's favorite college football is Notre Dame, not doing so good. Favoirte football team NY Giants has been his favoirte team since a kid. Cost favorite baseball ...
Bottoms of Feet Hurt - especially the Heel
- By Peggy59 · New reply 12:24 pm
- Journal · 41 replies
- I've had a new development in the last couple of months in that the bottom of my feet hurt, especially the left heel. I brought it up with my apt with my rheumatologist in October and he said I may need ...
Neuropathy in Feet
- By bdecka · New reply 9:48 am
- Journal · 51 replies
- Would you please let me know of any suggestions or help that you have received with regard to feet hurting at night which I assume is Neuropathy from the chemo that my sister received after ovarian cancer ...
MY ONE YEAR BATTLE WITH CANCER
- By dianeS · New reply 8:20 am
- Journal · 6 replies
- IT IS ALMOST 1YR.FROM 11/24/08 I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH A VERY BAD CHEST INFECTION. THE WEIRDNESS THING WAS THE MORE I COMPLAIN HOW MUCH PAIN I HAD IN MY CHEST AND HAVING BREATHING PROBLEMS. THESE DRS ...
Don't know what to do already
- By Dolphinlady · New reply yesterday at 9:41 pm
- Journal · 13 replies
- I finished my WBR on 9/9/09. I spent that week and the next two days weaning off the steroids which were awful. I gained 20 pounds on them and was bouncing off the walls. Since them I've steadily decline ...
Sleepy all the Time now!
- By LizardmyOli · New reply yesterday at 8:07 pm
- Journal · 8 replies
- Who knows what is up with me?? I just feel like I need to take naps all the time now, could be meds? Could be chemo? It is definitely not me feeling like this, I am usually bouncing off the walls or swinging ...
Kidney Cancer Support Groups in NC & SC - USA
- By Mickeral · New reply yesterday at 4:54 pm
- Journal · 6 replies
- For those affected by Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell Carcinoma) -- there are many great developments that have occurred this year. As a 12-year survivor, I will be glad to pass along information to those who ...
my most recent dilemna
- By precious · New reply yesterday at 7:43 am
- Discussion in Thyroid cancer · 1 reply
- I just recently went off my thyroid meds and was on Cytomel for several months before totally discontinuing the synthroid for two weeks, undergoing the usual tests. The doctor explained that my NUMBERS ...
St. Joseph Hospital in Del Rio, Texas
- By djcloud · Posted November 20, 2009
- Discussion in Colon cancer · 0 replies
- hello. my daughter has stage 4 colon cancer. She was just dropped from the clinical trial study at M.D.Anderson because the tumors in her stomach lining had grown. I am looking for an alternative treatment ...
Starting a journey
- By Stuckdh · New reply November 20, 2009
- Journal · 22 replies
- It has been 4 weeks since initially diagnosed with bladder cancer. Thursday the results of the biopsy came back and I have high grade CIS cancer of the bladder. That God for kidney stones since that was ...
Good news!
- By CKH · New reply November 20, 2009
- Journal · 2 replies
- My Pet scan shows complete resolution of the neck,mediastinal and hilar adenopathy,with a single small node with mild actitivy remains.I was in shock with this wonderful news! I will have 2 more chemo ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · New reply November 20, 2009
- Journal · 33 replies
- Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...
Any one have a Ureteur Stent put in?
- By Angela5 · New reply November 20, 2009
- Discussion in Bladder cancer · 3 replies
- Hi, Bladder Cancer came back again need surgery this time I need a stent put in. I am reading on the internet having a stent in is just unbearable pain. Is this true, I need to have it kept in for 2 weeks ...
PET/CT scan
- By applesauce · New reply November 20, 2009
- Discussion in Getting a diagnosis · 1 reply
- I was just diagnosed with DCIS. I had breast cancer 27 years ago, I was pregnant, and had a mastectomy. There was no nodal involvement so I had no further treatment. I interviewed two doctors. One wanted ...
Second run
- By H82Lose · New reply November 20, 2009
- Discussion in Breast cancer · 2 replies
- I was diagnosed with DCIS in 2005 in my left breast and now have Stage 1 tumor in my right breast, ER (-) PR (-) and HER2 (-). I would like to talk to anyone who has either considered or had a bilateral ...
PET SCANS
- By barbara7 · New reply November 20, 2009
- Journal · 5 replies
- I have PET SCANS every 3 months at Sloan Kettering in New York. My last one was 10/29/07 and it showed that something was going on as my oncologist said one area was lit up or white. The dr. then set ...
