Hi all! I will start radiotherapy on 12/02 till 05/03. 15 sessions. I have been awake for 2 hours and it’s 5am. Just a little anxious! After reading about side effects and long term ones. I tell myself that not everybody reacts the same… I have...
Hi all  I'm currently nearing the end of my chemotherapy treatment for a grade 2 invasive tumour that's HER-2 positive. I've had a mascteomy previously (6 years ago) on my other breast, but didn't need chemotherapy for that side.. So my second road into...
Hello all, I had 15 radiotherapy sessions over three weeks, and on the last day the radiographers told me the side effects would be coming out over the next month, so to keep up with the moisturising. I didn't realise just how painful the burning...
Dear All, I have been diagnosed with stage 2 lobular cancer; the lump was 13 cm and 10 lymph nodes were also found to be cancerous. I saw my oncologist for the first time last week after having a mastectomy and came away feeling a bit disheartened as...
It is proposed that I am put on Fulvestrant injections and Abemaciclib after being on Letrozole since June 24 but Ct scans have shown further issues beyond the metastasised breast cancer in my bone marrow. I am concerned about the doubling up of side...
Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing as well as can be expected given what we are all going through. I finished chemo almost 3 weeks ago & am still feeling a bit off and wondered how long I can expect to feel like this. This last session seems to have...
hi I posted a few weeks ago asking for the forum's tips on prepping for RT which was really helpful. I've now started just finished day 2/5 today but didn't expect side effects so quickly.. since yesterday (day 1) I had pain and shooting pains in...
Hi All, I had surgery yesterday to remove a small invasive lobular tumor and sentinel lobe removal which went well but I was also told that my HER2 result had come back as positive. The tumour was also estrogen positive. i won’t know what the treatment...
Just wanted to share the joy of feeling more like myself this morning. Feels like my brain and body might belong to me today. Now to get out of bed lol. Hugs to everyone x
Hi Back in July I went to the GP about a lump/pain, she put me on naproxin for a week but after no change I was put on the 2 week wait, after waiting the whole 2 week I was sent for an ultrasound as a precaution where I had a biopsy on the lump and...
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