new member: questions for research

[Guest guest]

Hello eveyone, I count myself very lucky that I have not had any

close friends or family members touched by breast cancer. I tried

researching on several web sites but I do have a few specific

questions. I hope that some of you will help me by answering them.

My questions have to do with chemo and radiation. I know it is an

individual plan for each patient but I am trying to get

an " average " . How long did you have chemo or radiation. Does it

start right after surgery? How long do you feel too ill to work? I

have heard that pateints experience lots of nausea with chemo but I

don't know anything about side effects of radiation. Thank you for

your help. God bless all of you. I'll be praying for all the

members. Diane

[Guest guest]

Welcome to the group Diane. I had my surgery and chemo in 1990. I had 6 mo of

chemo. I had 5fu and Methotrexate the first two Tues. of each mo. then the third

week I took Cytoxan pills and rested the 4th week. This went on for 6 mo. I

didn't have radiation.

My chemo started about a week after my surgery. I never got sick. I just had a

tiny bit of nausea and that was taken care of with the Compazine. I would be

home the day of chemo and the next day and go back to work for Thurs and Fri.

Hugs

nne

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new member: questions for research

Hello eveyone, I count myself very lucky that I have not had any

close friends or family members touched by breast cancer. I tried

researching on several web sites but I do have a few specific

questions. I hope that some of you will help me by answering them.

My questions have to do with chemo and radiation. I know it is an

individual plan for each patient but I am trying to get

an " average " . How long did you have chemo or radiation. Does it

start right after surgery? How long do you feel too ill to work? I

have heard that pateints experience lots of nausea with chemo but I

don't know anything about side effects of radiation. Thank you for

your help. God bless all of you. I'll be praying for all the

members. Diane

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[Guest guest]

thank you for sharing you history with me. I hope that you are healthy

now : ) Diane

& nne Svihlik moochie1@...> wrote: Welcome to the

group Diane. I had my surgery and chemo in 1990. I had 6 mo of chemo. I had 5fu

and Methotrexate the first two Tues. of each mo. then the third week I took

Cytoxan pills and rested the 4th week. This went on for 6 mo. I didn't have

radiation.

My chemo started about a week after my surgery. I never got sick. I just had a

tiny bit of nausea and that was taken care of with the Compazine. I would be

home the day of chemo and the next day and go back to work for Thurs and Fri.

Hugs

nne

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new member: questions for research

Hello eveyone, I count myself very lucky that I have not had any

close friends or family members touched by breast cancer. I tried

researching on several web sites but I do have a few specific

questions. I hope that some of you will help me by answering them.

My questions have to do with chemo and radiation. I know it is an

individual plan for each patient but I am trying to get

an " average " . How long did you have chemo or radiation. Does it

start right after surgery? How long do you feel too ill to work? I

have heard that pateints experience lots of nausea with chemo but I

don't know anything about side effects of radiation. Thank you for

your help. God bless all of you. I'll be praying for all the

members. Diane

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[Guest guest]

Hi Diane,

So far I am doing good :-)

Hugs

nne

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new member: questions for research

Hello eveyone, I count myself very lucky that I have not had any

close friends or family members touched by breast cancer. I tried

researching on several web sites but I do have a few specific

questions. I hope that some of you will help me by answering them.

My questions have to do with chemo and radiation. I know it is an

individual plan for each patient but I am trying to get

an " average " . How long did you have chemo or radiation. Does it

start right after surgery? How long do you feel too ill to work? I

have heard that pateints experience lots of nausea with chemo but I

don't know anything about side effects of radiation. Thank you for

your help. God bless all of you. I'll be praying for all the

members. Diane

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I had 4 treatments of A/C (every two weeks). I had to wait 2 months after

surgery because my incision became infected. I was not working at the time,

which was a blessing. I would get sick the 2nd day after the treatment and

the first treatment took me 10 days to get over. The last treatment took me

almost 3 weeks. I did not have radiation treatment.

new member: questions for research

Hello eveyone, I count myself very lucky that I have not had any

close friends or family members touched by breast cancer. I tried

researching on several web sites but I do have a few specific

questions. I hope that some of you will help me by answering them.

My questions have to do with chemo and radiation. I know it is an

individual plan for each patient but I am trying to get

an " average " . How long did you have chemo or radiation. Does it

start right after surgery? How long do you feel too ill to work? I

have heard that pateints experience lots of nausea with chemo but I

don't know anything about side effects of radiation. Thank you for

your help. God bless all of you. I'll be praying for all the

members. Diane

[Guest guest]

thank you , for sharing your history with me. Diane

cbj1958@...> wrote: I had 4 treatments of A/C

(every two weeks). I had to wait 2 months after

surgery because my incision became infected. I was not working at the time,

which was a blessing. I would get sick the 2nd day after the treatment and

the first treatment took me 10 days to get over. The last treatment took me

almost 3 weeks. I did not have radiation treatment.

new member: questions for research

Hello eveyone, I count myself very lucky that I have not had any

close friends or family members touched by breast cancer. I tried

researching on several web sites but I do have a few specific

questions. I hope that some of you will help me by answering them.

My questions have to do with chemo and radiation. I know it is an

individual plan for each patient but I am trying to get

an " average " . How long did you have chemo or radiation. Does it

start right after surgery? How long do you feel too ill to work? I

have heard that pateints experience lots of nausea with chemo but I

don't know anything about side effects of radiation. Thank you for

your help. God bless all of you. I'll be praying for all the

members. Diane

[Guest guest]

Welcome to our group...

The first thing you must realize is that everyone and every treatment

is different, but I had the same questions 2 months ago myself.

I am having my chemo treatments first...A/C every 3 weeks for 4 cycles

(just finished #3 last Friday, and the tumor has shrunk from 5 cm. to

about 3 cm.), then I will switch to Taxol/Herceptin, which will be

weekly for 12 weeks. The Herceptin will go on for another year.

Sometime in early June, I'll have surgery. Even though the tumor is

only in my right breast, I will have the left " deconstructed " to match

the right (whatever the dr. decides...lumpectomy or mastectomy). I'm

53, and boobs just don't mean the same thing they did when I was 23!

Then it will be on to radiation, probably 30 sessions over a 6 week

period.

Nausea has been well-controlled with Emend and whatever other little

chemicals get dumped in my IV. I feel " yucky " for about 4 days and

want to sleep a lot. Then I semi-bounce back for about another 4

days, and then everything is great until the next treatment. My

biggest " problem " has been constipation!!! Can't emphasize enough

doing whatever you can to avoid it, but there you are....the whole

process can't be wonderful, right? Then my " gut " slingshots the other

way and I have diarrhea.....double YUCK!!!

Working...I'm an elementary school speech therapist, and except for

the Fridays when I have treatments and the following Mondays when I

sleep all day, I've been going to work. Sure, there are some days

that I go in late (due to the previously mentioned diarrhea), and

during that first week after treatment when I might leave early

because I'm just exhausted. My oncologist is pleased (and somewhat

surprised) that I do continue to work. I told him that while my

family is my main support, my work family is just amazing (with 5

" survivors " in the ranks). I would go absolutely nuts if I stayed at

home by myself.

Hope this answers some of your questions,

Lucinda in sunny (yeah!!) Virginia

[Guest guest]

Hi, Lucinda, I've had a learning curve on the constipation/gas/diarrhea thing

myself. Seems I need to take 2 Senokot-S starting the night of chemo day and

then for 2 - 3 days after, but then it's time to stop or I go into gas/diarrhea.

We'll have this all figured out by the time it's over!

Ellie

Lucinda wrote:

My biggest " problem " has been constipation!!! Can't emphasize enough

doing whatever you can to avoid it, but there you are....the whole

process can't be wonderful, right? Then my " gut " slingshots the other

way and I have diarrhea.....double YUCK!!!

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[Guest guest]

Hi Diane,

I had 4 cycles of AC followed by 4 cycles of Taxol (treatment every

other week).

Then I had surgery and axilla discetion (44 days after last chemo).

Radiation was up next (about 1 month after surgery) (final one on

Monday!!!!)

I took a LOA during chemo/surgery, then went back to work. I had

some nausea, but not a lot. I took Emend to help prevent nausea.

>

> Hello eveyone, I count myself very lucky that I have not had

any

> close friends or family members touched by breast cancer. I

tried

> researching on several web sites but I do have a few specific

> questions. I hope that some of you will help me by answering

them.

> My questions have to do with chemo and radiation. I know it is

an

> individual plan for each patient but I am trying to get

> an " average " . How long did you have chemo or radiation. Does

it

> start right after surgery? How long do you feel too ill to

work? I

> have heard that pateints experience lots of nausea with chemo

but I

> don't know anything about side effects of radiation. Thank you

for

> your help. God bless all of you. I'll be praying for all the

> members. Diane

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Diane , I started 6 months of chemo - 1 treatment every 3 weeks a month after

surgery. I had a lot of nausea , kind of felt like i got hit w/ the flu every

few weeks, except more intense w/ the tired part . was out of work during chemo.

then i started about 6-7 weeks of radiation about a month after chemo - this

just made me a little tired and had a sunburn and rash . i did go back to work

during radiation. i am now almost a year and a half survivor. Sheri

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[Guest guest]

Ellie, isn't it nice to remind ourselves that this chemo time in our

lives will be over?

>

> Hi, Lucinda, I've had a learning curve on the

constipation/gas/diarrhea thing myself. Seems I need to take 2 Senokot-

S starting the night of chemo day and then for 2 - 3 days after, but

then it's time to stop or I go into gas/diarrhea. We'll have this all

figured out by the time it's over!

[Guest guest]

Thank you Sheri,

obviously every woman has a different treatment. thank you for sharing

your story. God Bless you.

Diane

sheri landers sherir5@...> wrote:

Hi Diane , I started 6 months of chemo - 1 treatment every 3 weeks a

month after surgery. I had a lot of nausea , kind of felt like i got hit w/ the

flu every few weeks, except more intense w/ the tired part . was out of work

during chemo. then i started about 6-7 weeks of radiation about a month after

chemo - this just made me a little tired and had a sunburn and rash . i did go

back to work during radiation. i am now almost a year and a half survivor. Sheri

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