On Tuesday this week I made the trip to Sydney by train, I must say it was a relaxing way to travel.
I stayed with friends and we had a great evening catching up, I hadn't seen them for a year.
On Wednesday I was off to Concord Hospital to see my Oncologist Professor Phillip Beale. I was nervous about this appointment as I needed to discuss with him the pain I am having in my spine and other joints, I keep telling myself that its just the arthritis from the tamoxifen. I mentioned this and he asked me several questions, I told him this was my worst year yet, I have taken more pain meds that ever before. I broke down in tears and told him I am so sick of being in pain, and I know I only have 1 more year on Tamoxifen and I felt I could do it. He asked when my last spinal xray was and I told him I had never had one. He felt it was time for one as he said, this pain can be one of three things, from the Tamoxifen, Arthritis, or my cancer had returned to my spine. He decided to run some blood tests, send me for an xray and book a bone scan. I did the blood tests and xray before I left the hospital, the full body bone scan is next week here in Port Macquarie.
Dr Beale rang me 3 hours later to tell me that there was no cancer in my spine and my cancer markers were good. So just waiting on the arthritis marker and bone scan, but expect it to be from tamoxifen induced arthritis.
For now I am taking a month off Tamoxifen to see if some of my pain eases up. This will be a welcome break, and we will see what the bone scan says and decide from there if I stay on it or for go the last year.
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