Hi everyone, I don't really know where to start or what to say just I'd like to chat with anyone who's gone through the same or similar as I seem to be the only young person I ever see at my chemo treatments ( obviously I know there will be plenty out...
Hello, This is my first time posting but I have been reading so many of your posts and one thing is for certain - you are all so so lovely, kind and supportive. My head is still swimming with lots of information to take in. I am 49. I was diagnosed...
Hi Any ladies who can give me some positives about Tamoxifen. My consultant has prescribed it as my cancer is oestrogen positive. I picked it up from the pharmacy a week ago but feel too scared to take it. I saw my consultant today regarding an abscess...
Hiya everyone! Hope everyone’s keeping well and going strong!! I have a question about hair regrowth. I’m still going through chemo but my hair slowly but surely started growing back a little while ago. What I have noticed is it is coming back a lot...
Here I am yet again, at stupid o’clock in the morning feeling exhausted but unable to sleep throughout the night. I drop off to sleep ok but waking each night between 2.30 and 3.30am since my diagnosis of BC just over 2 weeks ago. I’ve tried Nytol and...
Hi im pretty desperate here! my dry red eyes been looked at and to do eyelid hygiene 4 x daily and liquid tears. My main issue right now is burning uti feeling for past 3 days . Taking cystalieve and D Manoose tablets but I’ve just dipped tested my...
Hi all I have been lurking on the board for about 18 months. Have probably made minor comments here or there, but have largely kept myself to myself. Why, you ask - I’m not really sure, is the answer - as I have found all of your comments and stories...
I have completed my chemo on 12.05 and impatiently waiting to return to how I looked before. The hair is growing back well, they eyebrows not exactly the same but getting there, the eyelashes just take ages! On top of that they grow back curly in wrong...
Since having treatment either from chemo or from the medication given to me before during and after my diagnosis I have developed quite bad foot pain I have mentioned it to my oncologist , gp and not really been given much help other than to excersice...
Hi everyone. I have been reading through many of the posts already available on this forum for claiming PIP and it seems like a lot of people are being refused based on what is being recorded in the forms and from the Face to Face appointments that...
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