New to the site.

[Morenow]

Hi. I am new here. I am looking forward to meeting people to converse with about living with Metastatic Breast Cancer. I am now at 2 1/2 years.

[Hidden]

Hello,

Welcome to this site. I hope you will feel free to post and share how you are getting on. This site can help you to feel less alone and isolated.

Take care,

Sophie

[Morenow in reply to Hidden]

Thank you Sophie. I sure am looking forward to no more isolation. Need people who understand mbc.

[Hidden in reply to Morenow]

You’re welcome! No one should feel isolated with this disease. I also understand wanting to interact with other ladies dealing with metastatic breast cancer. It’s certainly not the same as early stage cancer. There are other groups for that. So this is the right place to come for advice and support.

Sophie

[Hidden]

Hi there and welcome aboard. 2 1/2 years that is good going - is that on your first line of treatment? I have just started my 20th month of treatment.Clare x

[Morenow in reply to Hidden]

Hi Clare. Thanks for replying. I am on my third line of medication. Hoping it last for awhile. Cancer in breasts, bones, skull and peritoneum and lymph nodes. Doing good today. How are you feeling today?

[Hidden in reply to Morenow]

I am good thanks. After a very lazy Christmas, I went back to work today. I enjoy my job and like keeping my mind away from mbc. I have mets to my spine, lungs and the lining of my lungs. I have an ebike that keeps me active (weather depending - in the UK).I am sure you will make some great friends here.

Where do you live?

Clare x

[LibraryGeek]

Welcome! Glad you found us, the ladies here are a fabulous bunch who offer support and share experiences generously.Jackie x

[Beryl71]

Welcome, lovely to meet you. This is a lovely helpful and mutually supportive group.

[Shelly1009]

Welcome to the community. I'm also invasive lobular with mets to the peritoneum. I was diagnosed in February after a very short "you're cured" period. Glad you found us ❤️

[Tolife_18]

Welcome! This group of wonderful, kind and brave ladies with MBC provides the support that difficult to find elsewhere including family and friends. Enjoy your tricycle and all best wishes for 2021!

[Rhwright12]

Welcome! 😀❤️😀

[kduck]

Welcome 🙏🏽

[Hidden]

Hi there, you will find this board is a great life line. Caroline x

[Barb5]

Welcome to the best site on living with metastatic cancer . We give each other support and at times better info than we get from our doctors in my opinion.

[Morenow in reply to Barb5]

Thank you.

[Shelby4now]

Welcome

I'm glad you found this site. I did not find this forum until entering my 9th year with mbc. I have started to make some valuable friendships and I don't feel alone anymore.

Speak freely when you need help we are here for you.

Take care Stay safe

Shelby

[PJBinMI]

Welcome to the group nobody wants to qualify for! I'm not a long timer with this group, but I am a long timer with MBC, bone mets from time of first cancer diagnosis in March, 2004. For me, the first couple of years were definitely the worst emotionally! Having good results with treatment, meeting others with mbc and learning all I could sure helped me get past all that initial anxiety. The best advice I have offer you and anybody with mbc is to see a bc specialist onc, at least for a second opinion, even if you have to travel. The best cancer centers in the US are those that have been given the designation "Comprehensive Cancer Center". There about 50 of those, and most are affiliated with respected medical schools. They have specialist oncs who see patients and do research. The website of the National Cancer Institute has a list of those, if you need to find out where the closest one is to you. Your own onc should support you seeing a specialist onc and help you get an appt. My onc was able to get me in within under two weeks. I've been really fortunate to have rather lazy cancer cells that seem to be pretty easily contained, although I recently had a blockage removed from a ureter and there were cancer cells in the tissue that the urologist removed. First time cancer cells have shown up anywhere in my body other than breast, bones and a couple of lymph nodes. My onc is in no rush to change my meds and I am okay with that, even greatly relieved as my long term experienced old and wise onc retired and this is the first time I've needed any decision making with my new younger onc. I wish I could share my long survival with everybody here.

[Glas0824 in reply to PJBinMI]

I always like hearing how long you have been living with it, makes me feel hopeful! Is yours also lobular?

[PJBinMI in reply to Glas0824]

Yes, it is lobular! I remember how glad I was when I first heard of a couple of twenty year survivors, in the first six months or so that i was living with this crappy cancer. And there was a thirty year survivor at the first bc conference I attended (Metastatic BC Network).

[Morenow in reply to Glas0824]

Yes, I have lobular. I hope to live a bit longer. It is scary getting close to third year mark.

[viennagirl in reply to PJBinMI]

Thank you for sharing your encouraging story. When I hear these stories I am filled with hope. What a blessing you are. Hugs Vienna

[Itisfinished]

Welcome to the group! I tell you what, these are a bunch of extraordinary ladies as you are yourself which have truly brought alot of inspiration and encouragement to me along with some great info. Remember there is never a right or wrong question. So ask away! God bless you my sister! We are all in this together! 🙏💖🙌🤗🌻💝

[Morenow in reply to Itisfinished]

Thank you for your kind welcome. I look forward to asking questions and sharing my experience with cancer.

[8576]

Just want to add my welcome. You have found a great source for info and friends.

Cheers, June S.

[Hidden]

Hi and so pleased you are on the informative and helpful forum with us. I have found out so much about living with MBC since joining. Every piece of information given to me has been helpful. I’m sure we laugh and cry together. Keep posting.

[hopenowandtomorrow]

Welcome Morenow! Glad you have joined our group on the MBC journey! Feel free to share the good, the bad & the ugly. We are very supportive to each other. 🙏❤️🙏!

[Adele_Julia]

Welcome to the group. I joined in October and have found the ladies, the support and the information shared amongst us absolutely invaluable, uplifting and supportive. Blessings ! Julia

[Sunnydrinking]

Hi

Welcome to the forum.

I have found it so helpful especially as we all know how it feels to live with MBC.

Wishing you all the very best on your current treatment.

Jo x

[Ski2sea]

Hi There,You found a great group (and I am NOT a group person.) The incredible women in this group offer amazing suggestions, and most importantly truly understand what you are going thru. Whenever something is bothering you, just post and you will receive a flood of knowledge or even a warm greeting. In an upside down world this is a place to find an answer and even a little comfort.

Take Care ❤️

Tara

[Morenow in reply to Ski2sea]

Thank you for welcoming me. I am not to good at groups either. Desperate to connect, though. I will post when I need to. Thank you for letting me know.

[Teddielottie]

Welcome ! I hope you get lots of support from the lovely ladies on here . And very exciting to hear you have an adult trike ... it’s not something we see often here in the U.K. ...hope you have lots of fabulous outings on it ! I have an e-bike for fair weather cycling and recently bought a recumbent exercise bike , which is great for the wintry weather we are now getting here ! Take care ! x

[Hidden]

Welcome. The ladies here are a tremendous resource and great support. We get it.

[BluHydrangea]

Hi Morenow! This is a great group. Good to welcome you here!

[mariootsi]

Welcome to a wonderful site with amazing women riding the mbc rollercoaster.We are here for each other.

It has been lifesaving for me and I hope it is for you.

[stardust1965]

Hi Morenow, just catching up here. Welcome to this invaluable board. Vicki