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Zometa infusions to help prevent bone loss from cancer treatments
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 26 12:21pm | Replies (165)Comment receiving replies
I don’t think you should get overly concerned before you talk to a doctor. I just think you need to keep pounding doors until one talks to you about this. If you know you have osteoporosis then someone needs to at least have a conversation about it.
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Absolutely, yes. I’m starting to do the standard protocol for localized breast cancer now - lumpectomy, “score” 9, so for now no chemo, radiation deemed not necessary but still and option for another 3 months to be useful. Letrozole for now. Egh.... muscle/bone pain in hips initially, now gravitating to foot pain. Not bad, maybe 3, but prefer not to have. Also, after 30 years I just got an UTI for nor reason (and I mean, no physical reason). Some people mentioned the tendency to get this. Mild, occasional hot flashes. Anyway : in recent years I had assorted orthopedic surgeries, and I can tell you that the one time my surgeon had the same procedure, he was soooooo much more attuned to what I went through. I don’t wish any bad things to the doctors treating me, but it makes a world of difference if they themselves, or a close family member, had experience with the AI drugs and the biposphonates as taken over long term. Including withdrawal symptoms. (Optimist. 6 weeks in I’m circling end year. With major resentment.).
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I agree. I’m just having a Difficult time getting someone to talk to me about bone density and what I SHOULD be doing.