Marion.

Not eating.

2011-01-01T09:02:14Z

Happy new year to all in mac land. Thank you for your support and advise over the past year. Can I again ask for advise, has anyone came across same symptoms. I have ovarian cancer that has gone to the liver. Problem is when I eat or drink anything get a pain on left side at waist and in left shoulder, doctor has suggested taking strong painkiller before eating but not making any difference. Eating enough to get by but just cant get rid of this pain. Many thanks. Marion.

clear cell cancer

2010-11-16T09:59:23Z

Hi everyone, can anyone help with any information about clear cell cancer. Thanks, marion.

lipsomal doxorubicin

2010-11-14T07:18:40Z

Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone can help. About to start on lipomal doxorubicin and wondered if anyone had been on it, what is there experience of it. Know evryone is different with different chemos but would welcome your replies no matter how good or bad they are. Many thanks.

Thanks.

2010-11-05T07:54:03Z

Many thanks to the people who responded to my last blog for help, new to this sorry dont know how to contact you. Can I please ask anyone how they manage after a diagnoses of uncurable liver cancer how you just get up in the morning and be "normal" do normal things, just function without thinking about this every minute of every day, you all seem so strong on here. Just got this diagnoses on wednesday and just cant seem to take it in. It seems so surreal. My dad, who I am not close with doesnt know what to say, friends dont know what to say, my son who is disabled and lives with me doesnt understand and life just seems to go on as normal, feel like I have suddenly become a leaper that doesnt want to bother anyone and make other people uncomfortable. Just dont know how to find a way of dealing with this.

Help!

2010-11-03T16:23:32Z

I have just been told cancer has spread to my liver and it isint curable! Understood I was having precautionary chemo after a hystarectomy but aparently it had spread to my liver and my scan before recent stint of chemo and scan after show the tumour is growing, have to have more chemo but its not curable, basically they say you have chemo it shrinks it then it comes back and you have chemo again, I dont understand, has anyone here been through the same.

Hair loss.

2010-10-19T07:33:10Z

Can I ask anyone if they have any idea when hair starts to come back after chemo has finished. I have been on taxol and caprpolatan (think thats how you spell it). Just finished about three weeks ago, does it take 3 months 6 months, nobody has said. Marion.

LAST CHEMO

2010-10-03T10:38:31Z

Yippee, finished my last chemo this week, only had six but seems like it lasted forever and then went in quick, if that makes sense. Have to go for a scan in three weeks then take it from there!!! Dont know how I feel, its strange not to be planning your life in three week cycles. Not sure what to feel, dont want to be too optimistic dont want to be doom and gloom, that cancer is a strange one, you just dont know how it is going to change you. Is there anyone else who has just finished chemo, how do you feel, as said I just dont know what I feel.

Cancer makes you question people and things.

2010-08-10T06:03:29Z

Am I the only one who now questions everything and everyone since getting ovarian cancer. Friends and family, who it must be hard for to see me go through this, I just question them all the time in my mind, are they doing that out of sympathy for me or do they actually want to be with me. Feel I have to be cheerful all the time, saying Im fine, everbody I meet saying your looking well, as if Im not supposed to be!!! Just get so damn tired being positive for everyone and not making anyone feel awkward. Have said before on blog someone very close to me, who I classed as a very good friend for many years couldnt deal with cancer and walked, it has shaken me. Sometimes feel you can only rely on yourself. This cancer is a pain in the a.., nobody tells you the emotional as well as the physical side of it, the chemo is just the start of it!!! Sorry if I sound like a moaner, not usually like this but just get so fed up with being this person with cancer.

Leg and joint pain, help!!

2010-08-01T07:29:25Z

Hi everyone, hope I dont sound like a moaning pain but has anyone any sugestions on tablets to take for leg and joint pain. On third cycle of chemo, Carboplatin and Pacitaxel. First two didnt seem so bad, got pains for day five, got them right away this time and so much more painful, tried tramadol with no effect. I need sleep!!!

Too good to be true

2010-06-29T19:41:55Z

Just out of hospital, made the mistake of saying to anyone of my friends that would listen that the chemo wasnt as bad as had expected. What happens? When immune system is down get an infection and kidneys pack in, luckily was at hospital for something else and it was found in a blood test, had no symptoms of kidneys not working properly, has anyone else experienced this. Doctor at hospital said chemo may be reduced in next treatment, have to say it has frightened me as it was just my first chemo.

Feeling sorry for myself.

2010-06-14T11:51:04Z

Sitting here on a rare! sunny day in scotland feeling so sorry for myself. Feeling awful, no energy, bones and muscles ache and feel like yuk. Just got one of six chemo out of the way and it seems such a long road. Know its a lot worse for other people, just feel so helpless. My situation is complicated by the fact I have a disabled son who is in the family home being looked after and I am in a flat with with my friend being looked after, I just want to be home looking after my son, to hear him moan and whine would be wonderful!! Know its for the best, want to shield him from this as he doesnt quite have the same understanding as everyone else. He is thoroughly enjoying the break from the nag and has bought everything in the argos book!! I ached to phone home and hear him laughing in the background, its what I wanted to hear but not hear, not making much sense here, think this cancer is addling my brain!!!! I just want my life back, running round after everyone, never had great health but managed this is so damn dibilitating. Feel such a failure when you see people with cancer running marathons and feel such a wimp here. Guess Im finding the whole how to deal with other people thing strange as well. My friend has asked me 100 times today are you okay, want to say how i really feel but instead say Im fine, just dont know what you are supposed to say. Trying to be positive all the time is bloody hard work. Feels as if it is happening to someone else, too surreal. I just want to talk to somoene who understands.

My first chemo.

2010-06-11T09:15:31Z

Well thats the first chemo out the way, have to say was a totally woos when I went into the room and seen these, what looked like dental chairs, broke down, thankfully had a wonderful person with me who was great. A full six hours later escaped!! Was on adrenellin for the rest of the night, had pictured projectile vomiting immediately. Didnt feel too bad the next day but just feel so tired and extreme joint and muscle pain, has anyone else had this and how long does it last!! Just taking one day at a time and trying to stay positive. I dont want to be a moaner but it just seems so daunting to have another 5 to go. I just feel so tired and totally out of it, should stop moaning know a lot of people are worse off.

New to all this.

2010-05-24T17:26:46Z

Hi,

New to all this, first blog, didnt know how to use a computer till about 5 years ago and can just about send emails etc.

Diagnosed approx. 4 weeks ago with cervical cancer, was in for a hysterectomy and cyst removal, consultant was sure it would be like everyone elses not harmful turned out to have cancer in cyst, ovaries and omentum, didnt know I had an omentum lol. Sure they have got all of it but have to have 6 months of chemotherapy. Went into numb shock when told, no tears just shock, tears came a bit later and the why me etc. Trying to stay positve, scared witless about the chemo which I have to have at the beatson centre in glasgow. It starts next wednesday, getting quite panicky about it. Have a wonderful friend who is going to look after me. My family situation is complitcated in that I am on my own with a son who has special needs, deaf/partially sighted but in a way im very grateful he doesnt know anthing about it, dont want to worry him. I find it strange to think I have cancer, I watch and read things about cancer and it just doesnt seem to be about me. Perhaps still numb. Its so very strange, like nothing ever experienced, have to say other peoples reactions have surprised me, people who you think would be brilliant have just run a hundred miles and to the other extreme people have been so kind. Im never quite sure how to tell people, not sure myself. Has anyone else had experience with cervical cancer or chemo, just have no idea what to expect.