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I’m sorry to hear this. As if the chemo wasn’t enough. 😞 Does your tinnitus come and go? And yes the brain fog is in many ways debilitating. I can’t process info, short term memory non existent… I find myself making adjustments at work to hide it. I must also say that there are often times where I just feel mentally “off”. I don’t feel good. Feel distant, disconnected, “gross”. Maybe it’s a form of disassociation, I don’t know. I’m not sure I have the words for it. I’m not giving up on getting some normalcy back, but for the time being I wait for the pockets (few hours, few days) where the fog lifts and my body isn’t acting crazy.

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The is with me 24/7. It came on when I started taking Blood Pressure medication; metoprolol. Prescribed to me after having an a-fib episode. That’s when I was told about the breast cancer. After my first treatment I got c-diff and then all the other symptoms became noticeable; I lost weight guickly, the symptoms in my abdomen and brain fog are with me constantly. I’ve had surgery a month ago for breast implants since having my mastectomy on the right breast for the cancer. I had breast cancer 26 years ago on the left breast. So while getting the implant put in the right side, he also put in a new implant on the left, because of the age of it. I’m almost positive that my symptoms with the abdomen and brain fog are both related to the chemotherapy treatments; which there were only two treatments because my body couldn’t handle the chemotherapy medication. My oncologist acknowledges that it gave me neuropathy in my feet and hands, but is stumped about what is going on with my abdomen. He just prescribed medication; Duloxetine, which I tried, but I got very lightheaded and stopped. 30mg . I’m now going to ask for the 20mg and give it a try. This is supposed to help with the neuropathy pain. I actually don’t have any pain, just numbness in feet and hands. So I really don’t think this will help relieve my other symptoms. Any ideas on this are welcoming.