Hi all,

Thanks for keeping in touch and reaching out to see how I’m doing. Most of you see my updates on Facebook and Twitter (@DebCote) and comment there, but some people who aren’t on social media were wondering what I’m up to since I’ve been quiet here.  So I figured it’s time for a quick update.

The good news is I feel ok most days and being off Tamoxifen has been amazing. I am no longer being woken up by awful charley horses in the middle of the night or jumping out of my seat at work to walk off a painfully clenched hamstring youtube mp3 for free.

As you saw in my last post, I’m now taking a new pill, anastrozole, which is a different estrogen blocker than Tamoxifen. Anastrozole is usually given to post-menopausal women to block estrogen, but since I’m pre-menopausal, I have to get a shot every month to shut down my ovaries.  You can read quickly about that enjoyable process here in my last blog post called WORTH A SHOT.

I won’t bore you with the biology and medical mumbo jumbo (super technical term there, I know) but spoiler alert ladies: once your ovaries shut down your body still produces estrogen skype kostenlos downloaden für android. So the anastrozole is helping to block that since my breast cancer was having a good old time feeding off the estrogen my body was producing. If you remember I was “triple positive” which means I was estrogen/progesterone/HER2 positive.  I did the year of antibody infusions to kick the HER2 to the curb, now I’m getting the monthly shot and taking this new pill which blocks an enzyme in my body that is involved in estrogen production, therefore blocking the estrogen any cancer cells would like to party with.

The new pill is definitely better than Tamoxifen…but…yes, here comes the BUT.  I feel like I’m 95 years old. The biggest side effect from anastrozole…aside from the hot flashes from being pushed into menopause…is the awful joint pain and bone aches steam workshop inhalte herunterladen. If I’m sitting for a bit and stand up, it takes a few minutes for everything to loosen up so I can walk without looking like I just willy-nilly tried to run the Boston Marathon. It’s mostly in my feet, ankles and knees. If I’m walking around for awhile, it’s less noticeable, but to say I’m hobbling around when I first get up is an understatement herunterladen. The easiest way to help you understand, is that it feels a lot like bad flu aches. But it never goes away.

Although it is really uncomfortable, I’m trying to push through and keep moving and exercising. I started running a bit since it’s been pretty nice out. I start off very slowly and eventually pick up a little speed. It’s a far cry from what I’m used to being able to do, but I’m squeezing in a little bit here and a little bit there to try to be as healthy as possible kann man bei amazon prime downloaden.

And since I was doing mostly running, I figured why not try a 5K!  I “ran” the Asbury Park 5K a few weeks ago. The race photographer caught a picture of me and if you didn’t know I was a participant in the race, you would think I was working Secret Service.

You be the judge:

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It was good to have a goal and finish it, no matter how I looked or felt, at least I accomplished it.

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During my last follow-up with my oncologist she said since this was my surgery side, it is possible that scar tissue from the lymph node surgery is bothering a nerve.  Or it could be a nerve issue in my neck area that is completely unrelated. Either way, it’s most likely some nerve that is being aggravated and the only way to tell is to get a couple of MRI’s and then go from there.  Not sure what the fix is after we figure it out, but hopefully it’s not too invasive gratis ebooksen forum.

So this month I will be at Case Del Sloan a couple more times than usual and getting the MRI’s done to see if it’s from surgery, or just a random new development.

In the meantime, my apartment is still full of post it note reminders, since I think I have a little bit of chemo brain left over.  I’m doing things like locking myself out of the apartment, forgetting to water plants or leave a light on for Nick when I leave for work youtube video herunterladen apple.  Not sure if that is chemo brain remnants or something new from menopause, of which forgetfulness is definitely a symptom.

But as a friend who had his own bout with cancer years ago said, “There can be so much left-over from dealing with cancer…it’s hard to sort out.”

That’s for sure. Almost every day from diagnoses in December of 2015 until now, I wonder if every new thing is related to breast cancer or the treatment for it.  You can’t not think that, no matter how hard you try.

In short, breast cancer is obnoxious, life invading and really does have SOME NERVE.