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Yes, NED, I guess. Lumpectomy in May 2025, Radiation in July 2025, first scans after treatment in February of this year were clear. I need both a mammogram and an MRI because my cancer was occult on a mammogram. I did have some issues about what kind of surgery that I needed and the 2nd opinion that I sought from Johns Hopkins resulted in an upgrade from DCIS to IDC. But that’s behind me now, I guess. At first I only joined this group, but in the last several months, I joined several Facebook groups for breast cancer patients and can’t stop reading all the posts, staying up late, and spending loads of time. I just want to know if anyone else ever had this issue.
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@ruffianfan55 Yes, I’ve had a similar response. You are not that far from completing treatment and staying engaged with “everything breast cancer” is probably pretty normal.
I was diagnosed in 2022. I spent immense amount of time reading about bc treatment and outcomes and this forum. As time has passed I’ve spent less time. Although I had a second surgery in 2024, purely reconstruction, which got me back to spending more time, and then another pre-cancer concern, not bc, that spiked more intense reading.
Hormone therapy can reduce energy and cause low moods - which I think was part of the reason I got so caught up in reading the forum and research. Getting up and engaging in life was more difficult to do. So it might be a side affect of the AI causing you to choose an activity like reading forums vs activity.