Angsta39

Thank you to you all for your stories and what you each chose to do. This helps me very much. I thought Yervoy was only for Stage 4, but it gives me hope that my doctor may offer it to me. If I don't get offered it, I will probablly do the biochemo because the other options that she gave me before just don't seem like the right choice for me. Again, thank you so much for all of you answering my post. 

Thank you to you all for your stories and what you each chose to do. This helps me very much. I thought Yervoy was only for Stage 4, but it gives me hope that my doctor may offer it to me. If I don't get offered it, I will probablly do the biochemo because the other options that she gave me before just don't seem like the right choice for me. Again, thank you so much for all of you answering my post. 

Thank you to you all for your stories and what you each chose to do. This helps me very much. I thought Yervoy was only for Stage 4, but it gives me hope that my doctor may offer it to me. If I don't get offered it, I will probablly do the biochemo because the other options that she gave me before just don't seem like the right choice for me. Again, thank you so much for all of you answering my post. 

Thanks for all of the replies. This is a big decison for me because I had choosen before not to do anything and just wait after my original surgery and now I have what looks like a horror film going on, on my leg since I have amelanortic melanoma. I literally look like I have cherrys growing on my leg. Its really gross and I hate looking at it. 

I honestly thing that the T-VEC injections are making my melanoma grow faster and that scares me. I have to make a decison on whether or not to keep doing them and whether or not I want to do the Opdivo. I'm beginnig to think that maybe I should just do nothing and hope that I get to live a long enough life to finally meet my grand daughter and see my son graduate from high school. 

You read all these blogs and articles about treatments and the side effects and you have to ask yourself, do I really want to put my body through all that and possibly die from the treatments and not the cancer? I'm really stuck in a place of do I do this or do I just say no and hope to live a happy life without any of the stuff that comes with treatments. 

Thanks for all of the replies. This is a big decison for me because I had choosen before not to do anything and just wait after my original surgery and now I have what looks like a horror film going on, on my leg since I have amelanortic melanoma. I literally look like I have cherrys growing on my leg. Its really gross and I hate looking at it. 

I honestly thing that the T-VEC injections are making my melanoma grow faster and that scares me. I have to make a decison on whether or not to keep doing them and whether or not I want to do the Opdivo. I'm beginnig to think that maybe I should just do nothing and hope that I get to live a long enough life to finally meet my grand daughter and see my son graduate from high school. 

You read all these blogs and articles about treatments and the side effects and you have to ask yourself, do I really want to put my body through all that and possibly die from the treatments and not the cancer? I'm really stuck in a place of do I do this or do I just say no and hope to live a happy life without any of the stuff that comes with treatments. 

Thanks for all of the replies. This is a big decison for me because I had choosen before not to do anything and just wait after my original surgery and now I have what looks like a horror film going on, on my leg since I have amelanortic melanoma. I literally look like I have cherrys growing on my leg. Its really gross and I hate looking at it. 

I honestly thing that the T-VEC injections are making my melanoma grow faster and that scares me. I have to make a decison on whether or not to keep doing them and whether or not I want to do the Opdivo. I'm beginnig to think that maybe I should just do nothing and hope that I get to live a long enough life to finally meet my grand daughter and see my son graduate from high school. 

You read all these blogs and articles about treatments and the side effects and you have to ask yourself, do I really want to put my body through all that and possibly die from the treatments and not the cancer? I'm really stuck in a place of do I do this or do I just say no and hope to live a happy life without any of the stuff that comes with treatments. 

I will let you know how it goes. I've already had a complete resection before the lesions came back, so this is what my doctors say the next step is for me. I will do the first treatment on the 23rd of February then again 3 weeks later. After that it's every 2 weeks. I have a restaging PET scan in April. Thanks for replying. 

I will let you know how it goes. I've already had a complete resection before the lesions came back, so this is what my doctors say the next step is for me. I will do the first treatment on the 23rd of February then again 3 weeks later. After that it's every 2 weeks. I have a restaging PET scan in April. Thanks for replying. 

I will let you know how it goes. I've already had a complete resection before the lesions came back, so this is what my doctors say the next step is for me. I will do the first treatment on the 23rd of February then again 3 weeks later. After that it's every 2 weeks. I have a restaging PET scan in April. Thanks for replying. 

Thank you Kathy. I will definatley watch for those treatments as you are correct that they are not approved for Stage IIIB right now. I have my next scans and Derm appointment in December. 

Thank you Kathy. I will definatley watch for those treatments as you are correct that they are not approved for Stage IIIB right now. I have my next scans and Derm appointment in December. 

Thank you Kathy. I will definatley watch for those treatments as you are correct that they are not approved for Stage IIIB right now. I have my next scans and Derm appointment in December.