Triple positive breast cancer in middle 30 :(

Hi Renata,

First of all well done on coming so far, I know it's tough going especially with the pandemic limiting your levels of interaction and support but you can do this, you are doing it already, just keep going. I was diagnosed in Feb with triple negative breast cancer, couple of weeks before my 38th birthday. I've done 4 rounds of docetaxel and next stage surgery which is planned for next week. Once that is done then I'll know if I need more chemo but I had a scan and the lump is shrinking so it's spurred me on. All the hard work will be worth it, I have faith that it will.

You will have tough days/weeks but look how many you have already conquered.Big hugs and kisses to you as I know how hard this is but know it's ok to have down days, it's good to cry and never hesitate to pick up a phone or ask a question via this community as they have helped me tremendously on my lowest days. 

Good luck Renata, keep going!! X

Thanks so much!

i had diagnosis just two weeks after my 37 birthday, best birthday present ever... 

Good luck to you too with treatment and everything else x

Hi I am triple positive, starting chemo tomorrow, starting fec-t how is your treatment going. Mine was er 8/8 pr 7/8 xxx

Hi Renata, 

Sorry to hear you have BC, I found the waiting for diagnose and all the appointments prior chemo more nerve wracking than actual chemo. 

I am 37, pretty much healthy, no smoker (my grandma had BC in her 80, then few more cancer cases 70s), so not really via gene, although I am waiting for genetics to come back as I am after double mastectomy, and NHS don’t want to it just like that.

I am also foreigner, plus my husband hardly ever home, but I am lucky my mother in law can be here when my hubby can’t, and my sister in law is very helpful too, as with 2 kids I won’t be able to do it on my own. 

I am taking chemo really well, but I already managed to get covid in between chemo, which set me of to hospital, now I am just tired all the times, 3 round of EC next week. 

Stay strong and positive 

Keep fight 

Lucie
xxx

Hi Shaz, 

I am done with a treatment already! 

know it feels like a distant life somehow!

All the best with your chemo! I won’t lie, it was really hard, but I was really hard on myself too.. 

Stay strong and as positive as you can xxx

Hi Lucaha!

It is so good to hear that you are doing as well as it possible at the moment and that you have support circle around you!

I ghost everyone out and I was really hard on myself through the all chemo treatment, but then I think I put myself back together and now I feel even better than before diagnosis. It is light in the end :) 

All the best xxx

Renata

Brilliant your done with treatment. You was triple positive like me wasn't you. What treatment did you have xxx

yes, it was triple positive. I had 6 rounds of chemo, and 15 rounds of immunotherapy, also I think 15 radiotherapy sessions.. 

Now I still taking Aromasin (for 10 years I suppose), but for now I am lucky, because I hardly call it a treatment, side effects are almost nonexistent 

I hope you feeling strong and ready to start xxx 

Uh I am ready to start. I know everyone is different but what side affects did you have with chemo  I have having 6 rounds of fec-t xx

I have had the same drug.

First was ok, I felt bad, but manageable (weakness, sickness, loss of appetite and these strange feelings- can stand some smells, some foods.. so so odd) 

Second was horrible, dose was to strong apparently… I couldn’t move for days, my all mouth was full of little wounds and I end up in emergency, sorry.. I know, it’s not what is happening to everyone, but even the strongest ones sometimes having it bad :( 

They lover a dose after and it became more manageable. But it was not a walk in the park by all means. 

What I would do different? 

I would love myself more and would give myself more credit than I did. I apparently couldn’t get over first stage of acceptance and was beating myself not stop:(  

Be kind to yourself xxx

You are stronger than you think you are!!!