Behind my right balloon I am experiencing pain
Mammo due shortly
Won’t go away
We shall see
We shall see
Me

Eva,
Keep holding on to our Heavenly Father.....He knows you have much to do.

What I’m feeling under my right arm pit and behind the balloon just doesn’t feel normal
My appointment with my oncologist is end of February and and I gym March
If the pain under my arm pit doesn’t subside in a day or two I will call the oncologist
As I have been taken off the tamoxifen with the bleeding and what’s happening to my hands and feet
I’ve been on it for five and a half years
What it does is shut my estrogen in my body
Now there is activity going on
And the kind of breast cancer I have is driven by estrogen
I have spotted twice since being off the tamoxifen and like now a one pimple on my face
A indicator of hormones at work
My fear is not only what I’m feeling
But that this particular kind of cancer like to metastasize to bone and lung
I need to stay positive I know but tell this brain that and with everything that has happened I don’t want it anymore
I’m so done
Holding on
Oh Heavenly Father hold me tight
Me

Had ultrasound of empty breast area
Blood word
And my new doctor on my train
A vascular doctor had me have upper extremities of veins and arteries looked at via ultrasound
His first thought with what’s happening to my hands and feet
Be a result of my cancer drug
Tamoxifen
I have a follow up with him no that I had the test done
Hope to have answers
I experience so much pain all over my body
I just don’t talk about it anymore
I ask Heavenly Father for a miracle
Amen
Me

Eva,
You had mentioned having pain under your right armpit in January. You also mentioned you would be seeing Oncologist in February. Did the oncologist have any suggestion why you were having the pain issue under armpit? Also, was there concern about your going off the Tamoxifen?

Hope your new doctor can give you answers now that you have additional testing done.

Gerry

It was the oncologist who took me off the tamoxifen
As his conversation were as the new vascular doctor
Patrick McGovern
Upon my first appointment with him he said the oncologist did do with concerns of clots
The general thought till I see him after the vain and arteries is although the estrogen is shut down as my cancer is estrogen driven
It is the progesterone that causes vain problems
I have been in tamoxifen for 6 years one year earlier than one would be taken off
It usually a 7 year treatment

So progesterone causes the vains to dilate and cause some complications including affecting heart

Bottom line we shall see
Will try a keep posting

So much going on
My grandchild mother
My child was released from jail yesterday
A long long ongoing problem with the father
And until she leaves him nothing will change
Just trying to take care of myself and my two who are in my care
Corissa is continuing night school for her diploma
That is priority right now
I wish she could motivate herself to work part time
But I do not focus on that
Her diploma comes first

Hoping you are doing well
As I think of you
Live
Me

Eva,
I had a lumpectomy on April 11th. It was an Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the left breast. This cancer too is Estrogen Positive/driven. The cancerous mass was small; but the cells were already invasive and Estrogen fed. The biopsy shows the results of the surgery margins were clear. I see the Oncologist this Tuesday, May 15th. The surgeon said I will need either Tamoxifen or Arimidex.

The Arimidex is often for those who are post menopausal (I had a complete hysterectomy some years ago)and the Tamoxifen usually for premenopausal. The surgeon said our body /tissue still produces Estrogen even after menopause so I will still need either one of them. I am concerned since I already have so many of the problems these two medications side effects cause which both are very similar.

Really hope and pray Corissa will get herself to be the best person we know she can be. The diploma is the first step.

Gerry