Hello, I am.just wondering if anyone on here has suffered from a really bloated tummy with gas and heartburn. I have read about chemo belly but just wondered if anyone else had this and what has helped the symptons. My stomach looks like I have a...
I have just had cycle 4 of EC and each time it has got worse. The nausea and fatigue is prolonged each cycle and still feeling awful and it was 6 days ago I had my last treatment. Has anyone else felt like this? Going onto paxitaxcel in a weeks time...
as you can tell from my posts, this is all so new to us, trying to read up/prepare as much as my brain will take in, breast removal booked for next thursday, am i right that if i have a drain i go back after a week to have it removed, then back a week...
Hello, recently diagnosed, saw the consultant for a plan and thought that was that. Then I get a call from bc nurse saying I needed to come in for another ultrasound to check the calcifications on either side of the tumour. Whilst that made me nervous...
I have just finished taxotare chemo. The aches and pains are really bad bad after first cycle but then the oncologist adjusted the steroid dose and was better Fortunately, the nurse advised me to buy polybalm so my nails are fine - unlike most women on...
Hi you wonderful brave women! I should be having surgery sometime this month after an MRI scan. My question is what can I do to prepare, plan, and buy in advance that will help me get through the process and the convalescence? My spirit is high and my...
Hello I was diagnosed a few weeks ago now. I am her2 -ve. Oestrogen receptive and 2 lumps on rhs, one is 33mm and grade 1 but waiting on other biopsy. The other tutor is smaller but been advised mastectomy is likely way forward. On the other side I...
Hello I am due for a mastectomy and immediate reconstruction on my left breast only. I initially asked for a skin flap reconstruction but am now re considering this due to the extra recovery time / more scarring on my tummy in addition to my breast...
I’m still confused .. since 2020 first was stage 3c was an her2 positive he positive anyway long story short failed on herceptin after 4 rounds it traveled to neck so it not anywhere else they thought in my lungs last year but tiny so 3 tdm1 later gone...
Hi everyone and hope you are ok I’m due to start chemotherapy next week - anyone else? Had mastectomy on July and this is ‘adjuvant’? I’m nervous and sad and lots of other emotions!
