keep us posted, xmas74!

Were they able to remove it all?

Healing vibes on the way to you! 💓💓💓

My endometriosis was severe and the tumor was encased in adhesions. When they tried to remove the adhesions it ruptured the tumor, causing contents to spill everywhere.

Sounds messy! Sorry to hear!

I've dealt with a sister-in-law and now a cousin.

Safe journey.

I know I was relieved mine was only Stage 2. (soft tissue cancer of the mouth and neck)

I was expecting worse.

I got both radiation and chemo after.

They always dosed me with Benadryl during chemo, so I napped a lot. They did it because I was terrified the first time. Not from the needle or anything like that, just terrified period. From the whole experience.

and support on this journey. Take care.

Mine was for breast cancer, but there are similarities.

Wishing you the very best outcome.

Yes, at one point I did think that another dose might kill me...I felt that bad...but it did not.

You can find them on there.

It's a tough journey.

I was terrified at first. But they treated me pretty well. Then of course Covid messed everything up for the next two years after that. Not complaining though. I hope everything comes out just fine for you and your experience is not too tough

Sending you DU get well vibes

One of my long-time friends just went through stage 3 ovarian cancer and is doing well. I’m wishing the best for you, too.

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they never told me about the good side of losing your hair! If your chemo is the kind that makes your hair fall out, and yours does fall out, celebrate. The hair follicles are among the fastest growing cells in the body. If your hair falls out, it means the chemo is working!

I had stage three endometrial cancer, now stage four. It's been back twice, but it's been nine years since my original diagnosis and I'm doing fine! Chin up, kiddo!

And what's used is practically a one way path to hair loss. I'm expecting it.

I guess I'll finally discover my real hair color and I'll save money on conditioner.

Such a difficult cancer to treat because it has so few symptoms until it is too late. Hope you heal quickly!

Sometimes nausea and vomiting after eating, even if it wasn't much.
Eventually turned into lower back pain that felt like a kidney stone and then I started bleeding. I'm post menopausal so this was out of the ordinary. My bleeding was extremely heavy for two months, saturating napkins every 2-3 hours. I was weak and fatigued. It eventually slowed down but never stopped for six months, the day I had surgery. The pain spread throughout the abdomin and I began experiencing pain on my right side (I had cancer in both ovaries but the left was 26 cm so I felt it first.)

I had a few bouts of incontinence.

A few things could be from the endometriosis that wasn't officially diagnosed or ever treated until discovering I had adhesions everywhere. Scraping the adhesions from an artery caused excessive blood loss and I had a transfusion of 3 liters.

So, some is endo, some is cancer but my official diagnosis is endometroid carcinoma of the ovaries, meaning if the endo had been treated when I complained about pain any time in the past two decades I might not have developed ovarian cancer.

So glad they caught it as early as they did!

Some things I learned over the last year of chemo: It helped a lot to have someone else fix meals or have easy things you can fix yourself. I became addicted to Lipton's instant chicken noodle soup, jello, and crackers for the first few days after an infusion. After that I wanted stronger tasting foods. I was AMAZED at how sensitive my sense of smell was - like I felt I could have challenged our German Shepherd in a scent detection contest. Many centers do such a good job of controlling nausea nowadays. Before they started my chemo drug drip, I took a good sized dose of steroids the night before the infusion, then they filled me up with Benedryl, more steroids, and an IV drug called Emend. Then they would start the chemo drugs. They said the anti-nausea meds should work for about 3 days, which they did. At home, I had Zofran and Prochloroperzine if I needed them, but rarely did. My team gave me a Neulasta generic (Xitenzo) the day after each chemo from the very first infusion to keep my white blood cell production from taking a nose dive. I was lucky that it worked well and I did not have an issue with my blood levels dropping into the danger zone which would interrupt the chemo schedule. For the joint aches that came along with the Xitenzo shot, they told me to take plain old OTC Claritin (not the Claritin-D). Apparently when they kick the WBC production up a notch, it creates histamine and that makes you stuffy and achy. Those aches lasted about 5 days. By the time those aches were over, I had 2 good weeks of feeling more like myself and having somewhat of an appetite again.

Regarding possible neuropathy caused by chemo, I asked my team about icing my hands and feet during chemo to hopefully ward it off. They said that I could do it if I provided my own ice packs. I did, and I do think it helped. Some drugs don't cause it, but the carbo/taxel did for me.

Wishing for the very best outcome and very few side effects for you through the whole process.

And to bring gel packs.

I found Below Zero Colder than Ice packs on Amazon. They worked like a charm, but I had to twist and swaddle one of the hospital blankets around my feet since they’re not a bootie. A 5-pk of 7”x6” packs was around $13. I would take all 5 in my lunch bag and would always come home with one or two still frozen solid.

Thank you