A personal journal of a Stage IV Breast Cancer Survivor chronicling day to day life and living with an advanced secondary diagnoses
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Showing posts with label dx. Show all posts
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Fatty Liver anyone?
So, been looking at my CT scan reports as so often it takes time to come down off the euphoric response to a clean good scan result and then to gradually digest the medical wank. Medical wank is my term for there usage of words in describing the observations of the scan. So what the fuck does "generalised hepatic steatosis" actually mean well in short it means I have a nonalcoholic fatty liver. I actually don't drink never really did even before I was dx so it is by no means anything to do with alcohol. How does this affect me well I don't really know but I found out that it was probably caused by Tamoxifen here's a link to an article explaining the connection http://livertox.nih.gov/Tamoxifen.htm ok so I am hoping you've read that link and now understand why Tamoxifen would affect your liver. My burning question is why don't they mention this when they prescribing the stuff? urghhhhhhhh makes me so bloody angry, we should be informed about the side effects including fucking up your liver prior to taking the stuff. Tamoxifen strikes again....... of course being obese due to the dammed drug also contributes to guess what? you've guessed it 'fatty liver'. Going to look further I know Milk Thistle is excellent as is Dandelion for the Liver so I will be uping my intake of those 2 and looking into other Liver helping alternatives. I am so glad I don't take Tamoxifen anymore.
Monday, 17 September 2012
Light a candle, say a prayer...
It is with a heavy heart like a ton weight bearing down on me that I bring you the sad sad news about BCC forum poster Karen aka SCACO (staycalmandcarryon) who has passed away. I don't know the full details all I could find was comments on an 'in memory' thread on the forum, it would appear that she had developed secondaries, apparently whilst on holiday and was taken from us very very quickly. SCACO was a great friend to me when I was first dx she was always so positive and upbeat, she was a clever lady with a great sense of humour. Taken way too soon (I think she was late 30's). It seems that it was a very quick exit and I hope she did not suffer in pain for long.
SCACO is now the tenth woman I have become friends with over the past 18 months that has passed away from breast cancer. I hate this fucking disease its so warped and twisted there is no rhyme or reason to it. I pray every day that they find the cause for this absolute nightmare of a disease, at least then we might have a cure.
"God, it's so hard to stay positive when all around you is the utter chaos of cancer and its associated outcomes, please give me strength and courage to carry on and in the process to support and help others. Amen".
SCACO is now the tenth woman I have become friends with over the past 18 months that has passed away from breast cancer. I hate this fucking disease its so warped and twisted there is no rhyme or reason to it. I pray every day that they find the cause for this absolute nightmare of a disease, at least then we might have a cure.
"God, it's so hard to stay positive when all around you is the utter chaos of cancer and its associated outcomes, please give me strength and courage to carry on and in the process to support and help others. Amen".
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