Glad to hear that you’re healing well. 
I think I’ve read recently that vitamin D is more effective than calcium for bone health.
They work together, and the oncologist recommended that I take both. In the meantime, my insurance did approve the Zoladex treatment to send me into menopause for good, and he also said I don’t need a bone scan right now.
Will you have the typical symptom? Try to ride the hot flashes, not fight them. Of course, this doesn’t work in business meetings and the like, unfortunately.
I’ve already been through menopausal symptoms like hot flashes and anxiety. I have also been averaging a period or two a year for the past 5 years or so (I’m 54) and my LMP was August 21, 2017. That was very easy to remember because it started when I made a pit stop en route to the eclipse. :mad: For several days beforehand, I was kind of jittery and wondered, “Am I having PMS, or am I just really excited about this eclipse?” It turned out to be a little of both, and because of that period, that’s why I was put on tamoxifen and will now have the ablation. I haven’t had my hormone levels measured, but he doesn’t think that’s necessary and said my symptoms shouldn’t be too bad because I’m probably 95% (or thereabouts) through the whole process anyway.
Got my Zoladex implant this afternoon; it didn’t hurt except for the needle stick for the lidocaine used to numb the implant area. And they covered it with a Tasmanian Devil Band-Aid. 
Might as well have a little fun if you can!
Today, I had a 6-month appointment with the surgeon, and he said my healing process is continuing to proceed normally and he wants to see me at the 1-year mark. 
Since I last posted, I did see him in the meantime because I started having pain in my breast again, and he said that it was probably cut nerves re-connecting (still!) and the oncologist, who I also saw in the meantime although that was previously scheduled, told me the same thing. The surgeon also said that I was wise to address a concern like this.
So far, I do not appear to be having any side effects from the new medications.
Good news all around!
That’s great! I still get zaps 3 years out (but now I have a lot more sensation than I did at the point you’re at).
What terrific news to start the day with! Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us.
Regarding the nerve damage, I had my hip replacement 10 weeks ago last Friday. As recently as two weeks ago I still had blazing hot pain down the outside of my right leg from the hip to the little toe.
It was a stripe about 2 in wide and if it was touched in any way it was as though someone was slipping a knife into me.
The doctor informed me that it was because of a nerve that have been several that would slowly grow back. It’s mostly gone now but boy can I relate.
What you went through will never become a distant memory but in time it will become a less stressful part of being Who You Are. So glad to hear that everything is progressing so well !!
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I saw my radiation oncologist earlier this afternoon. She too said that everything looks good, and if it stays that way, she does not need to see me again until December.
WAHOOOOOOOO !!!
So happy for this, yet another great milestone.
You allowed to drink? Tonight you should raise a glass, if that’s how you’d celebrate!
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I don’t drink except for a very rare glass of wine if I’m really stressed, but thanks anyway! I’m sure happy about it.
Terrific news! I’m very glad for you.
Today is my one-year “boobaversary.” Things are still going well, and I have a diagnostic mammogram scheduled for later this month, along with yet another visit with the surgeon.
Mazel tov! May it go uneventfully. Me, I’m in the middle of several nuclear scans because I’m having pain. I really think it’s nothing, but my oncologist wisely won’t allow me to try systemic treatment (like acupuncture) without ruling out bony metastasis (done, nothing) and soft tissue metastasis (Pet/CT, upcoming).
I’m so sorry to read this. Let me know what the results are. Any pain or other symptoms can be scary, aren’t they.
Thank you. I try to remind myself that before I had cancer, I would have figured I just injured myself–but of course, I have had cancer now, so I can no longer bet on it not being cancer. Fortunately, I have pretty low scanxiety. It’s while I’m waiting for results that my mood gets dark. Since I had bilateral without recon, all I get is a semi-annual clinical exam, so the up side of this is that I get a pretty thorough look for tumors in my innards.
Yesterday, I got a letter from my insurance company regarding next year’s premiums. I was hesitant about opening it, but my fears were unfounded, because not only will I be renewed, the premium went up by just $16 a month. I don’t mind, because that’s a combination of inflation and me getting older and presumably having higher medical expenses to begin with.
The day before that, I got a letter from the rad onc that included a check for reimbursement of an out-of-pocket overpayment. That was also a pleasant surprise.
p.s. I knew that the rad onc, whom I said earlier in this thread is an elderly Pakistani woman, looked familiar. I recently watched the “RBG” documentary, about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and realize that this is who she resembles.
Congratulations!