My husband as I've said below in reply to cojee. Has had a neobladder after having T3 muscle invasive bladder 2 weeks ago, so much worse than I imagined, as he came out with a stomah as one of his kidney urethra is sticky. Obviously his recovery will...
I've just received a delivery from Optibac. My most recent chemo was 2 days ago. Anyone who is taking probiotics, how long do you wait from the last treatment to take them?
Hello, This might seem trivial, but I'm really struggling with finding the right clothes to wear. My surgery was 2 months ago. I've been living in warm climates most of my life, so don't have much to wear for cold weather and what I had I cannot wear...
Hi, I'm Matt I am recovering from bladder cancer, I think that's what I'm meant to say. I have created a website, about my cancer, from my point of view, I created this to help other people, for all kinds of reasons. My website is NOT a fundraising...
Hello Everyone Just back from Hospital where I had my latest flexible cystoscopy. I had a different consultant today. He pointed out what looked like small white feathers in my bladder. He suggested I come back in a few weeks for a rigid cystoscopy...
Hi All, I am now 6 months post op after having an illeal conduit stoma n bag, Thought I’d share my experiences, I had blood in my urine one day at work in Sept 2020, went to A n E that same day to investigate as it freaked me out.(so glad I did) ...
I know this comes up every year. On the advice of the Macmillan telephone nurse advice line last year, I have been working on a 10days/2 week gap between the vaccines and the start or end of BCG. I had my flu jab 21 days and the Covid booster 12 days...
Does anyone have any experiences with the Care Oncology Clinic? They appear to have treatment which could support chemothereapy. https://careoncologyclinic.com/
Hi, I had bladder cancer, had bladder, prostate, and 18 lymph nodes removed apart from bladder prostate and nodes clear of cancer, but now they are asking me to have chemo and I am not too sure if I want to go through that. any advice?
My op was 11 hours . I had stage T2/T3 as the tumour broke through the bladder wall. I had to get left kidney removed as was affected by the tumour in the bladder but it was not cancerous. I also had hysterectomy and due to damage to my spleen during...
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