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Pain Lingers More Than 2 Years After Breast Cancer Treatment Ends

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I am glad that I am not alone in the pain after treatment. I was diagnosed with Stage III IDC 3 days before my 36th birthday in 2010 and went through 28 rounds of chemo (AC -4 & taxol- 24),52 Herceptin treatments, double mastectomy, 33 radiation and TRAM flap reconstruction (which healing for that took over 6 months). I still have neuropathy in my hands, even after finishing chemo in April of 2011. I have been seeing a pain management doctor for the constant pain in my abdomen from the tram flap surgery (April 2012) and now have severe bone pain as well in my legs, hips and chest. The pain management doc prescribed a Fentayl patch 12 mcg/hr to be changed every 3 days. This does little to help the pain and was instructed to take Tylenol or Aleve for breakthrough pain. Aleve does nothing to help. I am also on Neurontin for the neuorpathy and pain doc. upped the doseage on that. I am too young to feel this old! I go back to see the pain dr next week, hopefully I can get some relief. Constant pain for almost 3 years is just too much.
This article was very helpful in helping me feel I am not alone in this, and there may be an end in sight for me.

Laura G of OH 10:48AM February 02, 2013

If you did you might have noticed that the attitude wasn't all that nurturing. The point that young women feel pain more because they haven't had so much in their life yet? Really? Meaning that those women need to toughen up, right? Sit down and take it? Maybe just stop whining and be a sport about it?
I disagree with that way of practicing medicine. It is a bit tragic that this attitude still gets press and no one flinches. Of course, the previous comments don't look like they were thoughtful, coherent, and specific to the article. So maybe the only one commenting is someone trying to put a good face on an article that is not read by many, or at least not by people that have gone through the Breast Cancer process and were treated like like annoyances by people like the good doctor.
Shame on the doctor for lacking compassion but equal shame on the author for not questioning that point of view. You are both promoting an attitude that belongs in a bad movie, not in a Cancer therapy.

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