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Hi hope yous can offer so advice or help. In 2021 I was diagnosed with bladder cancer went through treatment chemo then removal or bladder plus other organs surrounding the area, got the all clear in jan 2022 however in feb 22 I got a flesh eating bug...
I had robotic surgery on Monday to remove a small tumour from the top of my rectum plus an anterior resection. Everything has gone amazingly well and I am now at home recovering. It honestly does not feel like I have undergone surgery, albeit I am a little...
Just saying hello, because I'm a newbie. August has been the strangest time for me. I'm a student midwife so started the month all hectic, getting ready for the end of year submissions. Then I went on a beautiful family holiday and spent a blissful week...
Hi. My first post here. Been seeing GP since Feb with rectal bleeding. QT test was 11. Still have bleeding and some discomfort in left side so had another QT test and result was 150. Plus had positive test for Calprotectin. Have been referred to local...
Hello everybody, This message is to hopefully give you guys some inspiration. I had bowel cancer in 2012, stage 3. After the bowel operation I had 4 doses of chemotherapy and as it was making me so ill I refused to take the remaining four doses. At...
Hi all round 2 done of folfori not feeling too bad nausea for a few days and tired not sleeping steriod overload I think. I'm just hoping it's doing the trick and attacking that cancer. Have many of you had success with folfori I've read different...
Hi everyone Just getting things off my chest before this morning’s appointment. Trying to stay positive, but an worried that they will find cancer again. Having had treatment back in 2019 for bowel cancer, then in July this year being told it’s been...
Hello, I have just started my chemo, ( oxalpliatin and capectibine) on Friday, and on my return home before I took any other drugs I ate a biscuit and suffered shocking pain in my jaw which lasted over 20 seconds. I got the courage together to take...
Hi Everyone! Jay was out today on his own in the car. He went to get some shopping and came outside the supermarket and felt really dizzy. He phoned me in a bit of a state and was just sitting in the car composing himself before coming home. Said...
Hi so I’ve not been been on for a while. In the middle of chemotherapy. so I’ve had a copy the letter sent to gp from surgeon as what has taken place surgery and treatment. In the staging it has something I don’t know what it is. Does anyone know. It...
