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Hey everyone, it’s been a while so thought I’d check in, lifes been busy, fun and exhausting all rolled into one, I’m back at work 2 days a week which I’m loving and things are mostly good. i met with a psychologist yesterday who really made me feel...
Morning all, hope I haven’t offended anyone with the title but it’s very appropriate to how I am feeling this morning. I am having a TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUND this morning and just looked up what it involves. Didn’t realise they do it via a vaginal probe...
I feel as if this is going on for ages, I have just passed mucus from rectum and it's had blood in it! Not loads but it's there and when I wipe! I saw another doctor at hospital the last time it happened and he didn't seem concerned! He examined me but...
Lace 23 I hope everyone is doing ok. I have been following the threads for a while and received wonderful advice from everyone when I was having treatment last year. I am coming to nearly a year since I finished chemo radiotherapy and still have some...
Hello dears, Not sure why none of my Macmillan notifications have been showing up! But I'm still lumping along out here. Going for a CT scan today, my insurance company still won't go for the PET scan I'd rather have and that my oncologist would prefer...
Hi everyone , just been diagnosed with T2 anal cancer , waiting for a pet scan and trying to keep calm , positive and armed with the correct info
Well good news this morning as I received my results from the smear I had at my hospital last week. No sign of HPV so they have said as I am over 65 I will not be recalled to have anymore. But I think the first sign of anything I am not happy about I...
Hello, I have been diagnosed with anal cancer T2 N0 M0 and will be starting chemoradiation soon. I will be getting a line fitted and the chemo will be attached and administered over the 1st week and also the 3rd or 4th week, not sure which yet. The radiotherapy...
Hi New to all this. Had a colonoscopy on Friday where the surgeon confirmed a malignancy. It's a difficulty placed tumour and crosses two different cell types so biopsy will confirm which type. I am now waiting on an MRI. I live on a small remote...
Hi, I seem to find myself coming back here when I get myself in a panic. I'm 4 1/2 years post treatment and have various side effects still now and again. Right now though I'm experiencing terrible itching again around my anus and it just pings my head...
