Hello everyone, apologies if this is a bit long.
I was diagnosed in Jan with breast cancer with lymph node and bone mets throughout my spine and ribs. Due an MRI on Friday to check some suspicious lesions on my liver too.
I was suffering with bad bone pain before there was any sign of a breast lump and struggled to be taken seriously by my gp who refused to prescribe pain relief before I’d seen oncology and initially advised I had costochondritis.
As such I’ve not been feeling well for a long long time and then I was admitted to hospital a week ago for a high calcium, dehydration and AKI which explains why I was feeling so poorly (extreme nausea, pain, agitation).
I had my first bone treatment in hospital and my chemo is booked for the first week in March. I’m just struggling so much with this sudden deterioration in my health. I can barely walk and my body doesn’t feel like my own.
im only 39 and was really active up until Jan riding horses and working full time as a nurse. Are this the residual effects of my hospital stay and high calcium and will it improve? I can’t bare feeling like this before my proper treatment even starts.
I have an appointment with my oncologist on Friday but I’m just so lost with it all and fed up of feeling so poorly all the time. I feel like I’m not the same person. My skin is awful following the treatment and my legs are so swollen. I feel puffed out all the time and the stairs are my Everest!
