CancerCompass message board discussion started by Isabella on 10/13/2007 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,17070,0.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I'm a bit freaked out because I am having my first CAT scan since I stopped chemo 2 years ago for treatment of STage IIIC Ovarian papillaryserous carcinoma.  My hair has finaly grown back to where it was before the whole ordeal, and being BRCA1 I have also gone thru a long reconsturction due to a prophylactic double mastectomy.  I feel great, feel back to my old self..steriod weight from chemo nearly gone, my feet still have nerve damage from Carboplatnin and Taxol, but at least a feel better.  But, I feel so good that I'm freaked out about the CAT scan....my doctor says I have to have it because my CA 125 wasn't elevated when I had cancer, and since it's not elevated now, at all, then we have to do the CAT to see if anything is brewing.... Isn't it hard to feel so good - get thru the entire ordeal - love life - and then have to be put in a tube to sit and wait to see if you will just have to do it all over again...Just sharing...regardless of any of this crap...live is just freakin wonderful! Isabella Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT Hello there...    my story is very similar.. i was i diagnosed with 3c ovarian in jan 07. i had 9 treatments and then surgery last month and 6 more treatments.my first c scan is this week... 6 weeks after my surgery... I am also brac 1..............................i am nervous also.... but why did your doc wait so lon for scan for you? Sandstar333 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT Any results yet?  I am BRCA2.   Are either of you doing MRIs and digital mammograms? Lucymullis Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT  On 10/17/2007 Lucymullis wrote:Any results yet?  I am BRCA2.   Are either of you doing MRIs and digital mammograms?hi lucy! how're u doing? still on avastin? was wondering how u schedule the mammo's & mri? every 6 months either one or the other?& ultrasound? harriet Harrietg. Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT