Hello everyone. It's been a VERY long time since I've posted on DISboards and especially here. However this showed up in my inbox and so I wanted to let you all know I was thinking of you.
@Pea-n-Me: I didn't got back to read your posts but I'm glad to hear you are through with radiation. It was about this time EIGHT years ago (Nov 2017) that I finished my own radiation treatment for breast cancer. I can still remember how painful the burns were at times but they gave me great cream for them which was wonderful. I was diagnosed in April 2017, had the lumpectomy, followed by 4 rounds of chemo followed by radiation. I also did cold capping during my chemo which helped me keep most of my hair except a huge bald area on top which I covered with hair and headbands.
Since January of 2018 I've been on preventive drugs. I think I did about 6 years of Tamoxifen and then I switched to a new oncologist, went off Tamoxifen to verify I was post-menopausal (I think I had been since I started my cancer treatments at age 45) and then started on anastrozole after that which I've been on since about 2024. No real side effects. I've had some osteopenia (slight bone loss) and of course weight gain and but otherwise fine. I think my oncologist plans to try this for another few years maxing out my post cancer treatment at about 10 years for now. We shall see.
I do think of others especially here and hope everyone going through battles are doing well. A return of any kind of cancer is always in the back of my mind of course. My mammograms every year have been clean but I recently went to a new ob/gyn doc who talked to me about my strong family history of cancer, my genetic testing (I don't have BRCA but I do have another genetic mutation that increases my cancer risk) and she recently did a scan of my uterus as a precaution (overall looks good except slight thickening, side effect of the anti hormone drugs) and she thinks I should even push for a pancreatic cancer scan just because my genetic mutation means a slightly higher risk of that and it's so hard to detect until it's too late. I have a family history of a lot of cancer including colon (mom's mom), breast/lung/brain (mom), stomach (dad's sister), brain (dad's brother), breast (dad's mom), melanoma (dad's brother) so I can't say I blame her for pushing me to have even more screenings done. I plan to try to talk to my genetic counselor again (it's been 8 years now) to get thoughts on that.
So for those of you in even more active treatment hang in there. I know that first year or two of diagnosis seems like endless doctor visits and treatments and I'm hoping you get beyond that soon.
@luvmarypoppins I am so glad that your last scan showed stable tumors and you get a break on oncology visits.
issues for a little over 24 hrs with the reclast. 
