Any advice much appreciated, I have finally finished my treatment but for the past couple of months suffered really bad with my finger nails, they have nerve damage and sometimes bleed from under the nail, they also fill with poison, a couple got infected...
Hello, this is my first discussion that I have initiated. I have posted before and until last week my side effects from anastrazole were severe dry mouth at night and thinning hair. Have been on Anastrazole for almost 7 months. Well last week the itching...
Hi, I have recently started RT and got very stressed about breath hold. It seemed far longer to hold than I’d practised for. I’m no longer stressed because on day 4 they split the breath hold into 3 and it was so much easier to manage. I was told to ask...
Hello all. But of an odd one, this, but I'd like to know if anyone on here is living with an ileostomy or other type of stoma. I had life saving, resulting in life CHANGING, colorectal surgery last year, so being diagnosed with early stage breast cancer...
Hi, I'm new to the forum having being diagnosed with DCIS 6 weeks ago after being called back after a routine mammogram. The diagnosis was a bit of a shock and I went through the usual feelings of fear, disbelief, anger, blame, all the usual stuff. Everyone...
Hi All, This is a strange question but I was wondering if anyone has plucked their eyebrows during chemo? I know one can loose them to chemo so at the start I didn’t worry about plucking them. Now looking at them wow they have sprouted more hair so...
Hi I'm going to be going for a mastectomy on my breast in January. Due to a family history of breast cancer and having had radiation to the chest in the past my oncology team have suggested that I may want to consider having a double mastectomy at the...
I had a biopsy this week for breast cancer and three masses were found, including one in the lymph nodes. They haven’t waited for the biopsy results to tell me that they are cancer. I’m really struggling with the waiting game until my follow up appointment...
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February and had a mastectomy in March, waited for test results from America to see if I needed chemo which it came back that I would benefit from it. My final treatment was on the 21st October (docetaxel) I didn...
I had mastectomy with reconstruction in September. Oncotype score was 12 so chemo not advised. I am today on day 10 of 15 radiotherapy and am struggling to stay awake! I slept 8 hours last night, got up, showered, dressed and ate breakfast and I'm ready...
