Breast cancer

This is great 

Wonderful hot day up in Inverness!!!...... as lots of Scots would say it's "Sun's Oot Taps Aff" weather :) 

I got up this morning to a beatiful clear blue sky encompassing a gloriously warm and radiant sunshine, and the first thing I read was this wonderful poem - so poignant and a truly lovely way to start the day. Thank you LB61 for posting this, just what I needed.

I wish everyone a really good day today.

Take care and best wishes

X

Hi

i am new to posting/blogs etc so sorry if this doesn’t get to you. I was diagnosed three small lumps jan 20 and then had surgery, radiology and am now on tamoxifen tablets. Like you I was given anastrozole but could not tolerate aches and pains from this drug. I was given the option to try tamoxifen another hormone treatment. I have been on this drug since Feb and feel much better on these tabs. No aches and pains and I can continue my running. There is an annoying hot flashes mostly at night so it’s not without side effects. Also I am taking 20mgs per day but asked breast care nurse if I could cut the tablets into two and take them in the morning and evening. Taken with   Liquid and food. It is tolerable by taking twice a day -   Hope this helps you.   Thanks.  Boj

Hi , you might want to look into sage re hot flushes.

Hi 

I`m very like you, diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2018 and then had chemotherapy, operation and then radiotherapy, finishing last May.  I went back to work soon afterwards insistent to my husband that I just wanted to be "normal" again but I am finding now a year later that I did the completely the wrong thing.  I feel exhausted and very tearful, probably the covid situation doesn`help, I get very worried about the whole thing.  I know I am obsessed about it coming back and every ache and pain alarms me. 

I wouldn`t rush back to work as I did, would be great to get some support from someone who has been through this too, something I have lacked 

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Hi 

Sorry you are feeling so low it's horrible isnt it ? 

Thank you for replying.

Are you on 5year hormone tablet aswell 

Thank you for the advise both my partner and my 2 girls have told me not to go back as the say I wouldn't cope, like you this covid doesnt help and I am also on a trail drug to . 

Is there a 'normal' after cancel ??cause at the moment I'm not feeling it at all. 

Xx

Hi 

Thanks for that I will speak to my oncologist when I go to see him next, it's the aches and pains what are getting me down so far no hot flushes 

Lucky 3

Hi 

I tried tree types of hormones but got such bad side effects that I have stopped at the moment.  I found I lost sensation in my fingers, very similar to the chemo, I found it very hard to cope with and the thought of 5 years feeling like that really made me feel very low.

  I agree I don`t think there is any sort of normal anymore my body has taken over and a slave to how it feels and my emotions are all over the place!  It would be nice to feel like I used to!!  

Nice talk with someone who understands, thank you 

x

How about sage?

Hi 

What is safe? 

Lucky3