One Year Cancer Reflection

Me a year ago:

http://www.mycancertrail.com/2013/02/boob-voyage.html

It's hard to believe that a year ago today I went through a mastectomy to remove my aggressive and invasive cancer. Surreal. But, despite the hardest parts of that experience, it really was an amazing experience because I learned so much, met wonderful people who take care of people like me, cancer survivors, people who know people with cancer -- which is an incredible amount of people! And, I've experienced so much love. Despite the challenges, I'm grateful to be here ...

Heel

Before tamoxifen and weeks after chemo my muscles ached less. But almost right away once I started tamoxifen, the muscles in my legs and heals ached a ton -- especially when I wake up. Many times I wake and crawl to the bathroom to avoid the pain. Once I'm up -- once the blood starts flowing down to my legs, I'm much better and walk cautiously back to bed.

I find that when I juice more it happens less. I also find when I sleep with a hot  water bottle or compression socks, I feel better. 

I run daily and the ache is there when I start but it does go away. In fact, I'm much worse when I don't run -- so, I run to keep me going stronger than otherwise. 

I googled to see if others experience anything similar and I found this link:

http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/78/topic/738926

One thing I haven't done is to increase my calcium and magnesium to 2:1 ratio (calcium 2 magnesium 1). In particular, a dose of 1500 mg of calcium and 500 mg of magnesium is recommended.

In terms of natural ways of getting magnesium and calcium, I did eat many more veggies last night before a faster 10k run this morning and my heel pain was less than the last time a ran a similar workout ( the last time, the pain gradually increased in mile 3; today it didn't happen til mile 5) so I can see the benefits of increased minerals. Currently 5 months now on tamoxifen with a lot of learning still going on and forever staying hopeful and positive.