Starting Chemo in About 2 weeks! A tad nervous!

Hi Mazz

Welcome to the forum and sorry to hear that you were diagnosed with breast cancer. Hopefully you won’t have too many side effects from the chemo.

Wishing you the best of luck with your treatment when it starts.

Best wishes

Daisy53

Thank for your good wishes Daisy!

Hi Maxx, sorry to hear of your diagnosis, but be assured you'll get lots of support in here. My chemo finished in June, I had surgery in August and radiotherapy in October,  I’m still on Phesgo injections until March.

If you're interested, my blog is called One Life Live It, over in the blog pages. Writing about it all kept me sane last year and there are some posts about chemo which might help.

good,luck 

Thanks for that, I will take a look. This forum is a great platform, as supportive as my husband and family are, they don’t really understand and I don’t want to be a BC bore to them! So grateful for the outlet xx

I completely agree, I used this loads through my treatment and it really helps

Hi I'm similar age, had first chemo 8 days ago and was incredibly nervous do you know what you are having. coped OK so far with side effects..one day at a time ......positive thinking goes a long way even though I don't follow my own advice!  think it was harder for husband sitting in cafe waiting! I went in at 0930 was out by 12!!! I just told myself I'll go wherever they say and do what they want me to do to make thier job easier . I took a bag of stuff sweets, blanket, tablet, socks but didn't need any of it...update us of your first experience to help others who follow x

Thanks for that, seems that you’ve coped well, that’s good! I keep thinking about it being part of my life until June and that fills me with dread……. But I try to remember that there’ll will only be 6 days that I actually have to have it and then it seems a little more bearable. I’m sure there will be plenty of good days and, fingers crossed, fewer bad ones! Wishing you all the best and hope any side effects you may (or not) have are just minor irritations. I certainly will post on here to encourage others, (or to have a moan, Ha Ha!). I look forward to hearing your next chapter. I’m sure we’ll both be done and dusted before we know it xxx

Hi

I'm 52 and at exactly the same stage in the treatment process as you are but have chemo in a couple of weeks and then the left side mastectomy. Just heading out for a bone & CT scan although I had my oncology appointment 2 days before!? Also going to try the cold capping but same as you just thinking the aim is to get this done and dusted!

Take care & good luck

Hi Lisa, sorry you’re going through this too. I’ve Decided against cold cap as it seems the results can be disappointing and it seems like a lot of effort for an uncertain return. I’ve been told that one can just end up with thinner hair which will need some sort of coverage anyway, so thought I’d just go bald and wear wigs and hats with hair, there are some good ones out there. Stocking upon them has helped take my mind of stuff a bit. Also, I suffer with a sweaty face anyway (ha ha), so figure that losing hair may cool me down a bit. I know the hair loss part of it is a big deal, but I’m not so worried about that (maybe I’ll be shocked when it happens). 

 I really hope you’re one of the lucky ones and it works for you, it’s always worth a try.

The mastectomy bit I found was relatively easy physically, not particularly painful, just a bit numb and tingly. I was up and about the day after going about my normal routine, hopefully you’ll feel the same. Emotionally, I was just glad to have the thing removed, so didn’t dwell too much on feeling sorry for myself, I was more relieved. But we are all different and all deserve to feel down and a bit sorry for ourselves from time to time. I think the armpit is probably more sensitive when nodes are removed at the same time, but again, usually numb rather than painful.

Best of luck with everything, hope all goes well for you, keep us posted on your progress.

Look after yourself! 

Hi Mazz

Thank you for your thoughtful reply even though you are going trough the same. For some reason I'm not feeling overwhelmed by the mastectomy and telling me your experience has made me even less so! I'm not the type to go to the doctors and hate attention so this is a struggle. I've yet to have my wig appointment and will probably feel better when I know what's out there maybe?

Do you know which chemo you are having? I was told on Wednesday but struggling to read the 'brand' on the consent form.

Anyway good luck and thank you again!