Hi everyone, not posted on here since last year but i am currently on some chemo tablets (capecitabine), which were fine for the first few months but now i am really suffering with my hands a nd feet - soreness, skin cracking and its now painful to...
Hi Im in need of a gd pamper and I was wondering if there is anywhere I can go that will treat ppl with Breast cancer and who are receiving chemo. ARDS or Ards peninsula area please.
will everyone know i'm on chemo once i loose my eyebrow/eyelash hair? i'm not worried about my actual hair on my head cause i wear a scarf anyway.
Hi everyone I was diagnosed just over six months ago. I had eight cycles of horrible chemotherapy and then a lumpectomy and full node clearance. I found out this week the op was successful but now I need radiotherapy and aggressive oestrogen suppression...
I’m feeling really naive … I’m 3 weeks post 12 weeks of chemo, have had two wide local excisions with poor margins and now waiting for mastectomy date … I wore cold cap at every chemo session and hung onto my hair, but now I’ve finished chemo, it’s falling...
I’ve got my second surgery this Thursday - wide local excision - chest wall perforator flap’s reconstruction! Sounds so pleasant doesn’t it!! Anyone else had this? Dreading going back for surgery again!!
Local chemist has told me that cetirizine interferers with anastrozole. There is nothing on the advice in the packet (Accord). Anyone else had similar?
Hi there, I’m new here - my mum’s metastatic breast cancer has recently spread to her brain and things are progressing very quickly. Her balance and mobility is being significantly affected so my dad and I would like to get a stairlift fitted to help...
Hello everyone, it’s two years since active treatment (chemo, double mastectomy, radiotherapy). I am on Anastrazole for another 8 years. Like everyone on here, my diagnosis pulled the rug from under my feet. I have gone through an emotional rollercoaster...
Seen quite a few people worried about losing their hair with chemotherapy. It was my biggest fear when chemo was recommended but the above photo shows it will hopefully come back. I am only 4 months post chemo and with a bit of help from biotin supplements...
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