Breast Cancer

Hi, my name is ResistFascism. I'm here because 20 years of battling cancer has worn me down. I need time with my tribe of others dealing with the same.

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How could I best support my mom who has breast cancer? (I’d especially like to know from people who have gone through something similar)

#BreastCancer #Support

Yesterday I met with my gynecologist to discuss different birth control methods. She wants me to stop taking estrogen due to hypertension and interactions with certain meds I’m on. We discussed the iud, implant, shot, and proestrogen only pill. I’m use to having periods only every 3 months and their lighter. Don’t want periods every month nor intermittent spotting. I got put on birth control for my pmdd and to help with bad cramping 20 years ago. I get yeast infections easily espically in the summer with excessive sweating. I don’t want weight gain. I’m already obese and having hard time losing. I already have depression and anxiety along with other health conditions including pots. Don’t want increased risk of breast cancer. It runs in my family. My pots is always worse when I’m on my period making me more dizzy and feeling like I’m going to faint more along with worse nausea. I have back pain but it’s worse when on my period along with bloating. I’m torn between the shot and implant. I have been doing research and both sound good except the weight gain with the shot. I have pain management procedures every couple of months besides other procedures, bloodwork, scans, etc. please help me decide between the shot and implant! #MajorDepressiveDisorder #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #PremenstrualDysphoricDisorder #POTS #ReflexSympatheticDystrophySyndrome

The last two months have been the hardest of my life.
My mother has fought stage 4 metastatic colon cancer for the last five years. She has two nephrostomy bags, a colostomy bag, and a JP Drain (for an abscess in her abdomen that leaks horrible smelling infection from her stomach) hanging out of her body. She can’t walk due to DVT blood clots in both legs that are dangerously close to reaching her Vena Cava, with one blood clot being the size of an apple. She was in the hospital for four weeks, then hospice ipu for two. Hospice made me put her in a nursing home, because she isn’t dying fast enough. She was only there for two days and then right back to the hospital. Spent two more days in the hospital and is now back in hospice where I’ve been told that we HAVE to have two new facilities picked out by Monday.
Cancer is taking over her body. There are more cancer cells than blood cells at this point. She is dying. We placed her with hospice at the recommendation of five different doctors. Yet hospice is saying they can’t keep her because the ipu is intended for short term stays, yet on the website says up to six months. My aunt just passed in February from breast cancer and she was with hospice for over a month before she passed.
I just don’t understand how they can do this to people. My mom needs 24/7 medical care. She needs medication administered that I nor my family know how to give her and don’t even have access/qualifications to administer. What in the hell are we supposed to do?
I am so distraught and extremely angry and disappointed in our healthcare system here in the states. I adore my mother. Life hasn’t been too kind to her and now she can’t even die in a beautiful place because it’s all just about having money. Well, we don’t come from much. But the true measure and worth of a person’s life isn’t about the money in their wallet or the balance in their bank accounts. It’s about the love they give and the people that surrounds them.
Just trying to vent. These social workers don’t give a damn and have been just awful at communicating. We just need some peace.

I have chronic fibromyalgia. Fortunately I have a wonderful doctor who does reckonize this as a real condition and gives me pain meds to help with the pain. Thank God for him. I also am receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer. My skin has wrinkled so much under treatment. Treatment drys the skin out badly. Does anyone know of a good product for getting rid of wrinkles or at least minimizing ? Angela
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Hi, my name is Healthy2025. I'm here because I am assisting someone just diagnosed with breast cancer who needs alternative treatment because the regular medical treatment is not possible in this case. Thanks for sharing anything you have tried successfully or know through other means that it is helpful. I wish you all the best of health and much happiness always!

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Hi my fibromyalgia friends. I have one year and more to post something… I had three operations for breast cancer and radiotherapy… this does not end soon because one breast will need again operation and in soon the doctors will remove my thyroid…
Anyway, among all these difficulties I have two people vary close to me who also have fibromyalgia and they are telling me that my problem is that I give a lot attention to fibromyalgia that is why I have pain a lot and fatigue😵‍💫 also they are telling me that I can control it through my mind!
What is your opinion?

#grieving#Sports fan#texting him the morning he passed away. Sports teams, scores, etc. He lived in another part of Oregon. Hadn't seen each other in many years.

Few years ago he bought me a PINK fishing pole 🎣 cuz a friend had taught me how to fish. Being a 21 yr breast cancer survivor represents the PINK. At some point I explained to him that my fishing buddy now has ALS and can no longer do many things. Asked him if I could donate to American Cancer Society anonymously to a girl with CANCER and he was ok with it. We both wanted someone w cancer to have something positive.