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Just diagnosed with ovarian cancer and starting treatment soon: Help
Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Oct 23 2:50pm | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Barbara, like you OC is my first serious illness. I’ve been through one course of chemotherapy and will soon be starting again for my first recurrence. Like Janelle I found it useful to keep a journal of symptoms/reactions to chemo. It helped me to be open with people and to let myself have the painful emotions when they came instead of listening to the voice in my head telling me I should shut them off. Getting outside everyday and having a good supply of books also helped. Weird as it sounds I actually started to look forward to seeing the staff when I went for treatments. This forum has been so helpful…I hope you keep us up to date on your experience.
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@amywells can I ask how long between finishing treatments and recurrence? I'm on my 2nd course of chemo too. I'll have 3rd treatment on Nov 3rd then have a scan. I have 3 more treatments depending on what scan looks like. I'm also HER2+ and getting Herceptin along with chemo and immunotherapy I had first time. 1 active area still so I'm hoping these treatments knock it out. I had stage 3C endometrial cancer. After hysterectomy pathology report said stage 4. Thanks
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@amywells thanks for the suggestion. My first round should be 6 hours....seems like a long time but Dr wanted to do the infusion slowly. Also- I have never done any drugs (not even prescription) so I wonder if that will affect me- like hit me harder. Another concern is that my boobs (little) have gotten big and tender-everyone says it's hormones. and my feet sometimes swell. other than that- I feel ok.