What, me worry?

How are you coping with the different emotional issues relating to your treatment and diagnosis?

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Discomfort in my tummy

Fightingthisalone
  • By Fightingthisalone · New reply June 17, 2013
  • 5 replies
  • I am currently on avastin since October 2012, I have ite once every 3 weeks - but during the past couple of weeks, I started to have only sometimes a bit of discomfort in my tummy.... It's hard to discribe ...

Frustration not taken seriously

Kendra22
  • By Kendra22 · New reply June 12, 2013
  • 8 replies
  • Have all symptoms of oc, family dr not rushing for anything, seems no understanding of symptoms as they say take fiber for diarrhea, this symptom due to something else, so on..., ct done but no answers ...

Peritoneal cancer

Maylady123
  • By Maylady123 · New reply June 10, 2013
  • 10 replies
  • I have low grade peritoneal cancer, serous adenocarcinoma..........I feel I need someone to talk to, I am worried about a reoccurrence it is twelve months since my surgery and everything with the scans ...

Surgery Today-Yup I'm Nervous

Scoobydoobeach
  • By Scoobydoobeach · New reply June 7, 2013
  • 24 replies
  • I have added a new cancer to my portfolio. I have breast cancer in addition to stage 3C ovarian cancer. And I'm not BRCA positive! No family history of either. I have a lumpectomy scheduled in a few hours ...

concerned and very scared!!!

scaredasheck33
  • By scaredasheck33 · New reply June 5, 2013
  • 43 replies
  • I am 33yoa, and very scared and concerned at this point. 3 months ago I started noticing swelling and distention on my left lower pelvis, then came the irregular periods, bleeding in between periods with ...

A Question

judy75002
  • By judy75002 · New reply June 3, 2013
  • 17 replies
  • I am very lucky as my ovarian cancer had not spread. I am a 1C. needed 6 rounds of chemo. Taxotere/carboplatin. My question is, The Doc said I had that tumor a long time. It was the size of a cantalope ...

The "AngieGene" - my new blog post

Scoobydoobeach
  • By Scoobydoobeach · New reply May 31, 2013
  • 6 replies
  • It's getting real in the Angie Gene blogosphere. My newest blog post. http://helpkeepasisteralive.blogspot.com /2013/05/the-angie-gene-and-moi.html ...

where did i land?

paintergal
  • By paintergal · New reply May 30, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • So Ive been off chemo for 6 mos, but my ca 125 is 59. Yes thats abnormal, and my scans has blips, scars, nodules, but nothing is growing. Nobody seems to know where I stand. I should be happy, and believe ...

PET scan tomorrow.

Seraph98
  • By Seraph98 · New reply May 14, 2013
  • 5 replies
  • Last week was my quarterly check-up and the one year anniversary of my diagnosis. I was excited to learn my CA-125 was low at 7! But for about six weeks I've been having abdominal pain, urinary frequency ...

Stage 2C Ovarian Cancer

Seraph98
  • By Seraph98 · New reply May 8, 2013
  • 12 replies
  • I experienced subtle symptoms of ovarian cancer for perhaps over a year. In 2011 I had a tubal ligation. At that time my GYN did notice that one ovary was larger than the other. I also had a cyst. She ...

CT Scan tomorrow

sjrnz
  • By sjrnz · New reply May 7, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • Hey everyone here. I am first time poster. I had Breast Cancer - infiltrating stage 2b 4 years ago. I was looking all clear until last month. I had a strange back pain - up high in my shoulder blades ...

Blood Clots

valcj
  • By valcj · New reply April 28, 2013
  • 16 replies
  • I just had my third angioplasty for blood clotting issues after my second round of chemo for recurrence ovca. Has anybody else had problems with blood clots? I would like to be able to use my leg without ...

scared I might have ovarian cancer

daffodil1
  • By daffodil1 · New reply April 15, 2013
  • 18 replies
  • Hi everyone, I just joined today. I'm looking for someone to please share with me their stories of how they were diagnosed with ovarian cancer, what kind of cyst did you have and what did the CA125 show ...

Just had surgery waiting on results

lovemy2sons
  • By lovemy2sons · New reply April 9, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • Sorry to come here with my questions,but in may of last yr i had a septated cyst that they said "went away'..after a few US and vaginal US it was there then it wasnt?? so in november i had horribale right ...

Borderline tumor

abetka
  • By abetka · New reply April 9, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • Hello, I'm new here and I would like to share with you my story. I apologize in advance if my spelling is unreadable for you, because the English do not know / I am from Slovakia /, a story I wrote in ...

Abdomen tender 5 months after surgery

Colli
  • By Colli · New reply April 7, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • Hi everyone. It has been five months since I had total hysterectomy. My incision is still tender, and rather numb. Also, about one inch on either side of incision is still tender, with entire area somewhat ...

"Somebody Better do Something"...

hinsopa
  • By hinsopa · New reply April 2, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • new blog post, come join me, sisters! www.canceremotions.wordpress.com ...

Surgery in 2 days

Vicki46
  • By Vicki46 · New reply March 30, 2013
  • 20 replies
  • Hello warriors!!! If you are reading this THANK YOU!! I'm having robotic surgery to remove a 8cm complex mass on my left ovary, Uterus removed, rt filopian tube as well as a corrective procedure to my ...

The Husband

Wadda
  • By Wadda · New reply March 28, 2013
  • 13 replies
  • The answer "yes" Hi, my wife Ann was diagnosed in September 2008 underwent chemo and life was good for 3 yrs , and then it was back more chemo but then it stayed away for 6 months after treatment and ...

Worried about symptoms

Kell33
  • By Kell33 · New reply March 15, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • Hi, I am 38 years old and am seeking advice about symptoms I have been having lately. I little family history: my paternal grandmother, aunt and uncle had breast cancer. My materal grandmother had ovarian ...

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