Kyna

Later Effects...

Posted on 04/17/08, 03:15 am

I don't know when you two had cancer, but do you have any symptoms that occurred after you stopped chemotherapy and everything?

• Reply #1 04/29/08  5:42pm
  
  JoyO
  I had lost half of the hair on my head during chemo. I was 42 at the time. When I had radiation, I had burns and blisters under my breast. There was a cream called Aquaphor that worked wonders in clearing it up. I'm still on Arimidex until November. I can't wait to get off of it in hopes that I can lose some weight that I didn't have before the cancer. It's been a struggle since.
• Reply #2 05/01/08  8:07pm
  
  Kyna
  I'm talking LATE effects...I have recently been told I have osteoporosis from the chemotherapy fourteen years after I was diagnosed with the cancer.
• Reply #3 10/22/08  7:32pm
  
  TennesseeKidd
  I had cancer in my leg and right at the area where the radiation was there is no hair and its been 13 years.
  robin
• Reply #4 11/01/08  10:31pm
  
  vchen
  I finished my chemo over a year ago for ovarian cancer and I still have muscle weakness in my hands. Plus a lot of pain in my joints. But it is hard to determine what is a result of the chemo or related to my other conditions.
• Reply #5 12/29/08  10:52pm
  
  JoyO
  Actually I've had weight trouble since the chemo, and that was 6 1/2 years ago. I just got off Arimidex the beginning of this month. I just wish the weight would come off again. I have osteopenia since the cancer also.

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