Hi Carla,
Well, the Dr. thinks the rash on my legs was from an interaction between the
Taxol (chemo drug) and motrin, which I had taken the day before the rash. I
have been taking lots of motrin for several years for lower back pain. The
dr. now says I should not take it at all for the remainder of the chemo
(about 11 weeks left). It apparently does something with or to platelets,
and he doesn't want me to take it. The rash is fading gradually & he thinks
it'll be gone within a week. So now I have nothing for pain except meds
which knock me out, like vicodin....it's hard to work while you're
sleeping...hmm...maybe I need a new career as a sleep researcher...
Anyway, if this wasn't bad enough, he also had the results of the assay of
my tumor cells for estrogen receptors, and 70% of the cells were estrogen
receptive. This now means that I have been feeding the cancer by taking
estrogen and can no longer take it. I've been on hormone replacement since
the hysterectomy I had 2 and a half years ago. On days when I have just
forgotten to take it, I have gotten depressed. So, between the pain and the
depression it's not a very rosy outlook right now. I suppose I can join the
rest of the world and take Prozac or Zoloft or Paxil, but I was determined
to be the last person on earth who isn't taking it....Oh well....Not to
mention that I'm going to start aging like Dorian Gray here any minute.
Sigh......
So..if you have/had adenocarcinoma, this estrogen thing is something you
might want to check out. (but then you're probably pre-menopausal, huh?)..or
at least ask your Dr. about. The suggestion for the assay came from the
UCSF Onc..thank goodness I asked him about it or I would still be feeding
the cancer every day unknowingly........
Anyway, hope this fills you in...no major symptoms lately except the cold
and the myalgia all over....
Thanks for caring, friend...
Torie
At 10:59 PM 1/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey there Torie.... I would really appreciate the update on you from seeing
the doctor... Nothing that you were going through sounded normal to me....
Please let me know what all they said.... Love you..
>Carla
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