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Doing Chemo Again
Even though I hate it
Well, I’ve had a good run. I haven’t done chemo since early October of 2023. I have been very happy about that, and my markers were stable despite my not doing treatment.
Then I started to feel a sharp, shooting pain underneath my mastectomy scar. I thought it must be due to inflammation because I’d had a fender bender — perhaps the rib underneath that area was slightly out of line?
I went and saw a GP and my oncology nurse, who recommended lidocaine patches. A pain management doctor told me he could give me prescription pain meds or injections, but when I told him I was looking for a drug free solution if possible, he recommended a chiropracter.
My chiropracter told me she couldn’t manipulate that area as it was too close to fragile tissue, but there were other options including gentle stretching which has helped.
However, a routine PET scan that I do every 3 months revealed that a tumor had been growing in that area. My markers had gone up the last 2 weeks before the scan, but I didn’t realize it until after because of delays. Signatera is the provider of my blood work tests and they always take at least a week and sometimes longer to get the results to you.
So now, unfortunately, I am starting chemo again on Monday.
