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Hi Pollyperk and a very warm welcome to the Macmillan Community but sorry to hear about your diagnosis. 

Navigating a cancer journey can be such a stressful and challenging time but getting support from people who have walked or are walking the ‘exact same' journey can help a lot. 

As you see the Community is actually divided into dedicated Support Groups (Discussion Rooms) and I do see that you have found and posted in our dedicated…..

        Breast cancer

…… support group. This group is a safe place to talk to others with a similar diagnosis, treatment experience, to ask questions and get support.

The Macmillan Support Line is open between 8am-8pm (timings may differ across services) 7 days a week on 0808 808 00 00…… this service provides cancer information, practical information, emotional support, benefits/financial/work guidance or just a listening ear.

We also have our Ask an Expert section but do allow 3 working days for a reply.

Talking to people ‘face to face’ can be very helpful so do check to see if you have any Local Macmillan Support in your area, do also check for a local Maggie's Centre as these folks are amazing.

Do get back to me if you need further help navigating the community ((hugs))

Hi Pollyperk and a second welcome to the online community.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022 and I just wanted to reassure you that your life is definitely not over. Breast cancer is very treatable and here I am 3 years later carrying on with life as normal.

((hugs))

Thankyou x

When you was first diagnosed how did you cope with the emotions, I can’t seem to get myself out of this black hole I’m disappearing down , I’m worried it’s gone elsewhere the cancer measures between 4/7 cm I had mammogram 14 months ago and all was ok they also found a abnormal lymph node .. I’ve only found this site this morning as needed people’s experience, thankyou for your positive message x

Hi im Tina and 4 weeks ago i had breast cancer surgery i also had two lymph nodes removed, yesterday i was told there was cancer found in one of them and now i have more surgery in two weeks to remove the rest of the lymph nodes im really scared as my scars are healing well and was just getting back to normal and was awaiting my radiotherapy treatment, i just feel lost and helpless i know how you feel its so scary but we need to stay possitive and support each other through this xx

That's a difficult question to answer as we're all different. I'm very much a glass half-full type of person and have a personality which means I tend to just get on with things rather than dwell on them. Also, having had a different type of cancer 5 years previously and getting over that, I trusted the doctors to do the right thing for me.

I stayed away from Google and tried to live in the now rather than worry about something that might not happen. Easier said than done, I know, but no amount of worrying was going to change my outcome so instead I tried to focus on the now.

If you feel that you're really struggling then having a word with your GP might help.