Guest guest Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Is everybody doing okay? I go in for my surgeon visit today, it will probably be my last visit with her unless I need more surgery. Thursday I go in to check my blood to see how my white cells are holding up after my 1st treatment. Other than that I'd doing pretty good although I do tire easily. A trip to town I can handle 2 or 3 errands then I'm ready to come home and take a nap, I'd like to skip the drive if I can though. This morning I had more energy than I've had in a while and I cleaned up the kitchen, potted some plants that were over due and got ready to head to the docs, which I'll leave for in a few minutes. I'm wondering if any of you who've been though this had a side effect where it felt like you had hairballs in your mouth. I swear I feel like I've swallowed a mouth full of hair and can't get it to go down. I also have a kind of copper taste in my mouth, not real strong but there. It really comes out with certain foods, like this morning I had an egg sandwich made with an english muffin. It tasted kind of like copper or metallic in some way, not real strong, just noticeable. I've stopped taking the nausea medication. I was getting so constipated with it it was painful and it was hard to eat. 2 bites and I felt like I'd eaten an entire meal, super size that is. I've had minor bouts of nausea, not enough to actually vomit, just a little queasy and not very often so I'll hold off until I see the Onc on Thursday and see what she recommends. I just can't handle being that backed up. And I tried stool softeners and Milk of Magnesia. I'm going to buy some psyllium today though. A friend of mine just told me that another friend of hers was diagnosed with BC last week. I encouraged her to give her friend my number and call me if she needed help, commiseration, a walk through, advice on doctors and books, etc.... I hope she does. She sounds a lot like me though, I find it hard to call a stranger and ask them for help, hell, I find it hard to ask a friend for help. Anyway, just thought I'd touch basis and hopefully get some talk going. LICS June " The best protection any woman can have...is courage. " Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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