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Have you ever wondered how to navigate life after breast cancer treatment? Join me on Silver T as I recount my personal journey through the ups and downs of recovery, from dealing with the aftermath of chemotherapy and radiation to managing the complex web of vitamins and medications prescribed by my doctors. In this heartfelt episode, I share my battles with Anastrozole and its challenging side effects, like brittle nails, muscle aches, and fatigue, as well as an unexpected high blood pressure diagnosis that led me to taking Irbesartan and Metoprolol. Despite these hurdles, I focus on the gratitude I feel for being cancer-free and my unwavering commitment to staying positive and active.

In the second part, I offer essential health advice specifically tailored for fellow cancer patients. Discover how a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise, and proper nutrition can remarkably strengthen your muscles, bones, and overall well-being. I delve into the benefits of crucial vitamins and supplements such as D3, K2, calcium, and iron, and discuss managing medication side effects and the importance of liver health with milk thistle. Concluding with the significance of early detection through regular mammograms, this episode is a must-listen for anyone committed to proactive health maintenance. Grab a cup of tea, subscribe, and join the conversation!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
podcast is about taking medicine and vitamins.
I am not a medical professionaland I'm not giving medical
advice.
I'm only talking about Sherry'slife.
If you are interested in any ofthe vitamins or medicine in
this podcast, please consultyour doctor first, because he
knows your medical history andhe knows what's best for you.

(00:22):
So don't just start taking themwithout talking to your doctor.
So if you like what you hear,please hit that subscribe button
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Thank you for watching.
Hi, welcome to my podcast,silver T.

(00:44):
My name is Sherry and today Iwant to talk about vitamins and
medicine.
I want to talk about the beforeand after with my vitamins.
I was prescribed after goingthrough my chemo treatments and

(01:04):
radiation.
So let me start with the ones.
The least amount, because I Ialways took a, I always took
vitamins and um, so I don't wantto start with those first and
I'm only going to talk about thevitamins.
That, I think, is it'simportant to take after, and
that was also a, that was alsothat was given advice from my

(01:24):
doctors to take after.
So after, when I mean after, Imean after, because it's behind
me people.
It's gone, it's no more.
That that is.
It's behind me.
I'm looking forward.
So I'm looking forward tohaving a better life.
And so let me just finishsaying so I am talking about

(01:47):
after the treatments, after theradiation.
Goodbye, okay.
So, um, after I had finished mychemo treatment I was my doctor
gave me some medicine that Ihave to take for five to 10

(02:07):
years.
First he said five.
I was like five, it's not toobad.
Then he said 10.
Oh, 10.
Are you serious?
I do not want to take none for10 years.
But guess what?
10 years give you a betterchance of that breast cancer not
coming back.
So I just let my mind to absorbit.

(02:28):
And now I am going to make thebest of it.
So that medicine is calledanestesol, and now I am 100 sure
I'm asking current the name ofthis medicine, but it's
anestesol.
Hopefully I'm close enough.
Yes, okay, and also I'm taking.

(02:52):
Now here's the interesting thingI have never had any any
history in my medical history ofhigh blood pressure.
When I was diagnosed withcancer I got it.
My blood pressure was out ofcontrol every time I went into

(03:17):
this office, to the point theywere so concerned, they were
looking like um, so you aretaking medicine for this, right?
I'm like, no, I never, I neverhad it before.
And doctors, they get in theirbox, right.
So they get into the boxthey're looking at to color your
skin.
They're looking at the size andthey're saying there's no way,
I know you must have had itbefore.

(03:39):
I said, look, I never had it.
You can look at my history, Ihave never had it.
You can look at my history, Ihave never had it.
So one doctor actually went theextra mile to go.
Look, I don't know if it was anurse she went to look and she
saw the times that I had cameinto the office and every time I

(03:59):
came into that office, whichwas a chemo office office, it
was for my chemo treatment myblood pressure was high.
Um, again, lady, I never hadhigh blood pressure, now I have
it.

(04:19):
And they were saying okay,maybe you have white coat
syndrome.
What is that?
A white coat syndrome?
I've never even heard of.
Maybe some of you guys haveheard of it, but I I never did.
So you know what it is.
I said I don't know, I don'tknow if I have that neither.

(04:40):
So, um, so, moving on the.
The end, the end of that littlestory that I went down that
rabbit hole with, is I now havehigh blood pressure and I take
high blood pressure medicine.
I take um, herbastartan, and Itake um here's another name.

(05:03):
I'm sure I'm going to massacremetropopal I.
I will put the names right here, all right.
So you guys, I'll put it on myside, you'll get a chance to see
it over here, over here, andyou'll see the names.
So I now take those twomedicines and let me give you a
little bit of information aboutanestosol.

(05:36):
So anestosol, its main functionis to suppress the estrogen
hormone in my body and thereason why he's doing that is
because the cancer that I had,because I'm cancer-free, I'm
cancer free, yay, no cancer.
So I am cancer free.
Thank God for it and thank Godfor love and support from the
family that kept my head onright and kept me mentally

(05:58):
strong.
I had a breast cancer.
The breast cancer that I hadactually likes to eat estrogen
as its food.
So I'm on medicine that isthere to suppress estrogen.

(06:24):
So I don't really have a lot ofestrogen in my body.
So my nails get.
My nails are now brittle.
My it causes your bones to acheyour muscles, to hurt and and
it's it's no longer in yourmetabolism, so it's also a part
of your metabolism.
You know our metabolism.
Help us.
So it's also a part of yourmetabolism.

(06:45):
You know our metabolism.
Help us, give us energy andkeep us going, and the
metabolism department is ourcheerleader department.
So the cheerleader departmentis missing somebody.
And so there's days when youwill feel tired and sluggish.
Let me tell you, I have beentired the last couple of days.

(07:10):
This video is coming out latebecause I was having some tough
days, but I was still in thehigh spirits.
I just was feeling sluggish.
I didn't go for my walk like Inormally do.
I didn't make it to the gym onthe days I normally make it on.
So I am going to get back inthe swing of things, very like
today or tomorrow back, but Iwill meet my mom in the gym.

(07:30):
Okay, I was in the.
When was the last time I was inthe gym?
It was on sunday, I think itwas on.
I think it was on sunday, oh no, it was friday of week.
So it's almost a week since thelast time I was in the gym and
I'm going back to the gym thisFriday again to meet my mom.

(07:58):
So I try and, and all these sideeffects that I was just
mentioning tired and joint painand muscle pain.
How do you counteract some ofthose side effects?
Well, just from my, theresearch that I read, and just
from the advice that was givento me by my, by the nurse

(08:19):
navigator.
She was telling me exercisehelps your body to absorb some
of these side effects.
So I go to the gym and I gowalking and I try to do things.
And being in my garden, justaround there, cleaning, and you
know, just moving around,milling around, pruning,

(08:42):
sweeping, trying to make sure Ifertilize the plants, get water
out there, that's all part of myexercise and I would definitely
want to share more of that withyou.
Um, and also eating.
When you say eating, you makesure you eat your, your foods
that help you with this process,and so the reason I said eating

(09:04):
is because we have to have theright amount of protein, like
fatty fish.
Um, just put more.
Just put more.
Um.
Now, sorry if I'm saying I'mtoo much because I'm trying to
remember so many things.
So, fatty fish, yogurts, I doprobiotics, a lot of leafy,

(09:25):
green, leafy things in your, inyour, in your diet.
So I I that's just thebeginning.
That's just some of the things,and I do do those as a matter
of fact.
I just made yogurt this morning.
So now, that's just thebeginning.
That's just some of the things,and I do do those as a matter
of fact.
I just made yogurt this morning.
So now that we talked about themedicines and how to a good way
to counter, counteract some ofthe side effects, let me talk
about the vitamins.

(09:45):
The number one thing that Itake is multivitamins.
I take Nature's Mademultivitamins and the reason I
take this, this particular one,because we all know that the

(10:09):
vitamins are huge.
So I actually got the soft gelvitamins, which are easier to
swallow.
You don't have to try to takeyourself out.
You know trying to get that,you know you're trying to get it
down the water and you, you'rekicking because you're trying to
get it.
It's like, oh, it hit thatwrong part going down.
So this is a soft gel vitamin.
It's still pretty big, right,but it's it's soft gel.

(10:33):
It's a soft gel.
My fingers are getting someexercise trying to squeeze this
thing, but I take it every dayand this one comes with iron.
So if you don't need the iron.
I don't know if they they mayhave the one without iron, I
don't know.
So they have iron in there Inthat one and I also have now

(10:57):
this.
We all know b12 is to help giveyou some energy and this also
support your.
So it says help reduce fatigue,right, I take one of these a
day and this is a capsule.
It's like a little sweetyumminess in the morning, just
it's a little chalky, but youknow you enjoy it, so it's good.

(11:20):
And I take this is because youknow my estrogen levels are low,
so we want to get something togive you some energy, help you
with the energy, and I takevitamin c.
Vitamin c is another goodvitamin that you should try and

(11:50):
this helps with your immunesystem.
It D3 plus K2.
This is good for your bones.
If I didn't mention theestrogen, the one that
suppresses your estrogen If Ididn't mention one of the key

(12:16):
things I'm going to mention itright now the anesthetizole
medicine, because you don't havethe estrogen, we need all that
stuff in our bones so our bonescan get more osteoporosis, or
osteo, because I'm in like thebeginning stages of osteopenia,

(12:37):
so you want to take somethingbecause your bones are now being
jeopardized because of thistaking of this medicine, but
that doesn't mean it's the endof the world.
All it means is you just have toget out there and exercise.
That's all it means Just getout there and exercise, do your
walking.
These are new norms and you'reeven stronger than you were

(12:58):
before because you're exercising, you're building muscles, you
you're strengthening your bones.
So you want to make sure youget out there and and exercise.
So it's still.
You still got that greatquality of life.
You get out there with yourfriends, you meet new people,
you see other people out theredoing their thing.
So try to take your D2.

(13:19):
Your D3 K2.
Because it is really good foryour bones and it's also good
yeah, it's good for your bones,your teeth, muscle and muscle
health.
So you want to take thisBecause this will help support
you.
Are you going through thisprocess?
And calcium we need.

(13:43):
Calcium supports a bone health.
So you want to take I.
It's recommended take two ofthese.
I was reading about it, butit's to take two.
I was trying to take one, butI'm taking two.
Let me see here.
Let me see.
It says, if I can only find thedirections yeah, take two.
You take two, take two of theseand these are actually pretty

(14:08):
big too.
They are big like the um, themultivitamin one.
So look, these are, and theyand they also, because me I
don't like, I don't like takingpills to begin with, and then
you got these big, big, bigbehind pills you got to take.
So I look for them in a softerform, like a, a gel.
So I found I have this calciumwhich is in a gel form.

(14:30):
It's about the size of the um,it's about the size of the, the
multivitamin one.
It's about the size of themultivitamin one.
It's about the size of that one.
And make sure you take it withplenty of food and a lot of
water, because if you don't, itwill hurt your stomach and maybe
you can take.
I take some in the morning and Itake some in the evening, so I

(14:52):
have my evening ones and I havemy morning ones, my morning ones
and then my evening ones.
So, and I also take.
Why is this on my desk?
I don't know, because it hasnothing to do with this new
normal of mine, but I take milkthistle.
It's good for your liver andit's just here hanging out.

(15:16):
Well, I guess I wanted to makean appearance today.
But I take milk thistle becauseit's good for your liver, and I
have taken, and I do take, painpills, and some of these pain
pills are not good for yourliver, so I try to keep a
healthy liver.
So I'm also recommended to takeiron.

(15:40):
But the doctor was giving methis strong iron.
It was so strong and it waslike, and see if I get this here
.
Let me just show you the pillbecause it's a, it's a
prescription, so I don't want toshow you all my.
This is a pill, iron pill.

(16:02):
But this iron pill is 325milligrams 325 milligrams and
let me tell you be trying tokill you.
I'll be having such bad stomachpain.
So what I did was went out andiron is good for your blood, so
you want to make sure your bloodis, you're getting the
necessary support that it, thatit needs.
So, um, it supports your blood,it supports the red blood cell

(16:30):
production.
So I'm reading this from I I'mtrying to switch out that iron
for a gentle iron and and I tryto take this or within this, 28
milligram, which is a bigdifference, but I'm trying to
get some iron in there maybe.
I try to take two a day, but Iam not about to.
But that was just too painfulfor me so I decided I have to

(16:52):
find a way to get the iron in mybody without trying to take
myself out.
So that is all of the vitamins,all of the medicine that I take
to help counteract my new norm,to help with medicine and side
effects.
And eating, exercise, eatingand taking your vitamins really

(17:17):
does help with some of your sideeffects.
I'm trying to see if I goteverything.
Side effects.
I'm trying to see if I goteverything and one I don't know
when, but I will talk about someexercises that are definitely
recommended from the doctorthat's good for you to do, like

(17:42):
low bearing exercises, walkingand strength training, and I do
those things, and I will talkabout some of the things that I
do.
Maybe I'll even try to get youin on a session or two.
And look, don't judge, okay,when you see me doing it, no
judging.
So the most important thing hereto me, after going through all

(18:02):
that, I don't have any moreinformation.
I'm just making sure I didn'tmiss anything.
The most important thing I wantto say here is early detection
is the best detection.
So get your yearly mammogramsdone, because cancer does not
just affect you, it affects yourfamily, it affects your
co-workers, it affects yourfriends.

(18:22):
They all care about you.
So they want they want the bestfor you, so they want to be
around.
They want you, they want to bearound to harass you for a long
time to come.
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(18:45):
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Until next time, ladies, have acup of tea.
I know this don't look like aregular cup of tea, but it is a
cup of tea.
So have a great cup of tea andrelax and enjoy life.
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