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Drawing up new battle plans

 


Hello all and first up I apologise for not posting for a little while. I ended up needing a little break over the school holidays.

As per my previous blog post, I re-started my fancy pills on Easter Monday. Unfortunately the nausea did come back with a vengeance as did the fatigue. Two weeks after re-starting my fancy pills, I had a blood test to check on my liver. My liver was very grumpy again, hence why I felt so crappy maybe? I am not yet sure what is my new normal on this medication. Anyhooo, my Oncologist has decided my fancy pills and my liver "no likey each other." So we are abandoning the current battle plans and drawing up some new ones.

There are currently four different medications in the same family (aka cell inhibitors) as my fancy pills (Ribociclib). Once my liver has recovered (again), I will try another one called Abemaciclib. My husband Phil asked a qualified chemist friend of his about Abemaciclib and from what he read it is a newer (so therefore theoretically more advanced?) version of Ribociclib. He also said results indicate it may be more effective at targeting cancerous cells with less impact to healthy cells. So this all sounds very positive and I am optimistic that if this one does not agree with my liver, that one of the other two remaining cell inhibitors might. In the meantime my hormone blocker (aka Letrozole) is making my cancer unhappy and it has least stopped its growth and has also shrunken it places.

I promise to blog again next week and share some of my wins for less toxins in our home :)

Until next time, my name is SJ Boehm and I am a fearless MBC warrior

Please note: From July, the subscription option will be removed from blogger 😞 I will look into alternatives and keep you posted 

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  1. ChelseaApril 27, 2021 at 10:17 PM

    I'm cheering on the Abemaciclib, and will have everything crossed it's nicer to your liver SJ! ❤️

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