Hi All! It's been a while. This board was so helpful to me in the past, but I haven't visited in a while. Kind of a long story…. but my immediate question is, does anyone know about trying to conceive and having a pet scan? I'm having some "issues" and need to get a pet scan, but I'm also trying to conceive, rather unsuccessfully so far. I'm wondering if I have the pet scan prior to expected ovulation (sorry to the men on this board 🙂 ), can I still try to conceive this month? Or rule out the whole month?
I feel like I need to do a separate post, b/c i'm not doing so hot lately, but here goes. I'm 4 years since diagnosis, Stage 3a, melanoma in right arm, complete lymph node dissection. I was diagnosed at 29 (female, if you haven't already guessed that). I did a year of interferon, and had all the horrible side effects. I still struggle with certain side effects (fatigue, thyroid) and really expect to forever ugh.
Most recently – in early august – I was at the gym and was holding a heavy weight and it felt like someone stabbed me in my arm pit. It hurt non stop for 24 hours. Since then, i still get the knife stab feeling when I move wrong on exercise. I've tried everything I can think of this work on this. Rest, ice, graston, stem, massage, etc. We thought torn scar tissue, and I was thinking maybe scar tissue rehealed around a nerve or a surgical clip moved or something. I had an MRI, which showed some other shoulder issues, but nothing really on this issue. Any ideas?
ugh – I just need to vent to someone who understands. I HATE Melanoma!!! I know so many on this board are going through so much worse than I am. I hate melanoma for all of us. Even when I'm NED, it just seems to constantly haunt me! I just want to be able to be able to as social as I want without fatigue causing me to skip out of events, work out when and how much I want to, not have brain fog, have a baby, not have constant anxiety, is that too much to ask? Santa??? I just want to be able to live a normal life.
I want all of us not to have to worry that every little anomaly in our bodies makes us immediately jump to worst case scenario. I want all of us to be able to whatever we want, that others take for granted. That's my Christmas wish for everyone here. Happy Holidays to everyone!!
PS – I think i'll be upping my anti anxiety meds tonight 🙂
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