Hi all I’ll finish chemo mid may hopefully going abroad in July can anyone advise on travel insurance
Hi all I thought I was beginning to feel a bit better emotionally about my diagnosis of breast cancer and cancer in lymph nodes even although I was awaiting CT scan results. Yesterday I was relieved to be advised by BCN by phone that the CT scan showed...
I have Grade 2 Her2+ lobular cancer. I have had a mastectomy,12 weekly doses of Taxol followed by 15 infusions of Herceptin. Before I started Herceptin I was ‘borderline’ and I trundled on till it was stopped at 15 because the vef had gone down. I...
Hi everyone. Has anyone out there experienced heart problems whilst on Herceptin? I was taken off treatment for a month back in June 2020 and was prescribed an Ace Inhibitor and Beta Blocker. Unfortunately after a routine Echocardiogram in December I...
I started with my new cycle of Perjeta/Herceptin and taxol last Friday. I did ok with the Perjeta but had bad reaction during Herceptin infusion (shivering, high temperature) so they stopped treatment. Plan is to try again next week which is a little...
Hi having my mastectomy tomorrow at aged 40. Why do I feel so calm and unnerved
I am due to start radiotherapy on the 10/5/22 I am very anxious about this I don't know what to expect Can anyone help please
I had my radiotherapy review today and only one more treatment to go. Feeling really positive all going well until I was advised it was highly likely I would get blistering as a result of radiotherapy So my fellow warriors in anticipation of this what...
Hi all, just to ask how did you feel the day before your operation? I have just managed to fall out with one of my sisters as my two sisters were speaking with me on the phone and they were saying well get tomorrow over with and it’s all over… we’ll I...
Anyone got really sharp stabbing back pain in lower back? Mine is really bad
