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Hi all, Im now 6 weeks post treatment and seem to be recovering fairly well. However I'm still struggling with energy levels. Im not properly sleeping at night I've been quite anxious the last few weeks any pain convinced myself treatment hasn't worked...
Hey everyone. Hope your doing well. well 3 weeks is and the treatment was going well and manageable. Now I have a chest infection so on antibiotics so have to stop chemo meds for 7 days. Platelets have dropped from 300 to 81 this week so I assume this...
Hi guys, just thought I’d update following the discussion we all had on the post from Prettypinkroses . I rang the GP again this morning at 8am on the dot & was 30+ in the queue!! The queue went down quite quickly & I got an appointment for 9.45am surprisingly...
Hi I’m new to this group. I’ve got anal Cancer, Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) - stage 3 tumour stage 1 lymph node. I’m feeling very nervous about starting my treatment tomorrow, 5 1/2 weeks of Chemo radiation and not sure what to expect. It’s all starting...
hi all, my Mum has recently received a stage 4 AC diagnosis with liver mets. Her biopsy is this week but since the colonoscopy she hasn’t got out of bed and is literally wasting away. she’s on oramorph once, maybe twice a day but has gotten so weak...
I’ve just reached 25/28 chemo radiotherapy treatments and saw the oncologist today for a review. I’m quite sore and am having trouble sleeping because discomfort wakes me in the middle of the night. Up to now I’ve just taken paracetamol but the oncologist...
Hi all Diagnosed last week. I'm so scared of the treatment and effects. Keep getting panicky. Have a lovely family and friends but my husband died recently so feel alone so much
Hi there , I finished my treatment mid July and feel good apart from the odd day . Back to playing golf etc . You would think that that was great but it’s not . Every day when I go to the loo I’m still having really bad pain , it started 2 weeks into...
Hi everyone, Has anyone who has completed chemoradiotherapy experienced long term low white blood count? In July this year I asked the GP to check my hormone levels to see if I was now post menopausal and as an aside she did a full blood count, which...
Not sure what my first day of treatment has done to my legs as I have not been able to sit still from getting home. Not even my tablets for rls have helped at all and normally they work. So I’m just walking around the house at the minute and hubby is...
