Sitting us a difficult activity . Vulva dry and registers after driving, Gynecologist surgeon has prescribed estrogen 1% topical cream and doesn't expect much longterm improvement. As blood vessels / lubrication destroyed by radiotherapy . A bit grim...
Hello !! What a fantastic community but why didn’t I seek this out before now !! I felt I was the only person in England with this condition. I now realise I am not alone !!! I completed my chemotherapy/radiotherapy end of September and I have had my...
Hello I finished my treatment (five and a half weeks of twice daily Capecitabine and daily radiotherapy) five days ago. The oncologist did advise me that the effects of the radiotherapy would worsen in the next couple of weeks but I wasn't quite prepared...
Good morning I’m new to the site I’ve been having treatment for AIN 3 for the past 4 years now. I was diagnosed with anal scc last year and had it removed. Now on a 5 year surveillance having laser and biopsies every 3 months which feels never ending...
Friends, I've got to go back to him on Friday. My butt is clenching spasmodically at the very thought. How am I going to endure the years of DREs I have ahead of me if I'm sitting bolt upright in the middle of the night panicking every time? Eep...
Hi all, I just finished my 6 weeks of chemo and radiotherapy on Friday, in a lot of pain inside ana, feel as if my muscles inside are aching and I need the toilet all the time even though not eating much, bladder is also aching, any idea if and when how...
Hello I was was diagnosed with Squamous cell carcinoma on the 2nd of December after having what was believed to be a a skin tag removed from my perianal. Long story shorter I have now had all the scans and been referred to the Marsden … Anal cancer team...
Hi Everyone, i went to see a colerectal surgeon on Friday because of what my doctor and I thought were severe haemorrhoids. Yesterday just six days later after having a colonoscopy, MRI and CT scans he told me that it is looking suspiciously like...
Hi. Just been diagnosed with anal cancer. Started with piles last Easter 22 which wouldn't go. After many trips to the Dr they referred. I had an mri ,ct, and colonoscopy. All clear except mri which showed a mass. In for biopsies which again came back...
My mum was diagnosed with stage 3 anal cancer in November 22. She’s had 2 major operations which has left her with 2 stoma bags, one is inactive. She’s starting chemo & radiotherapy tomorrow I'm really struggling with my emotions & feelings of guilt...
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