Just had my letter confirming dates for pre assessment and dates for first 2 Chemo cycles. Starting on 15th March. Feel really strange about it. So glad we've booked few days away in Lake District with our best friends
Hi can anyone advise how quickly (if at all) their periods stopped after chemo started. I was diagnosed at the beginning of December with strongly hormone dependent bc. I am yet to start chemo as have had two surgeries so far. By the time I finally...
Feeling anxious diagnosed 3 weeks ago with stage 3, with a cancerous lump and a couple of cancerous nodes I had my CT and bone scan last Friday, and have just had my oncology appointment through for tomorrow. I have convinced myself it has spread...
Arrggghhh.... Feeling frustrated and upset as emotions got the better of me. My prosthesis appt had to be re-arranged due to it clashing with a chemo information session (which didn't tell me anything different to all the blinking leaflets) so got and...
Hi I am a bit confused Following a mammogram I had biopsy I had the results 3 weeks later where I have been told I have precancerous cells. I am now booked in for a lump removal and they will remove a margin around the lump. I cant work out what is...
Had to go to A&E on Saturday 4pm and was readmitted to hospital after undergoing lumpectomy on Monday 14th. Sudden onset acute pain and swelling- horrendous. Literally crawled through A&E. Turned out to be a huge bleed inside the breast. On it in emergency...
I think I had some good news today. My MRI after chemo cycle 2 has shown my original 56mm lump is now 11mm. They now need to put a “clip” in to mark it as it might shrink and disappear before surgery. Has anyone else had a similar experience? What I really...
I have been on Anastrozole for9 months. I have been subjected to pain in my entire body for the last 4 to 5 months. On the hospital scale of 7 to 8 all of the time. I was at my wits end taking 8 x 30mg codeine and 500mg of paracetamol daily. I broke...
Hi all, hope it is ok for me to join as it is my daughter who has breast cancer and not me. She is due to start radiotherapy on Thursday and I want to go with her for all her appointments but she said I can only attend the first one and possibly others...
Can anyone give me any feedback please, good or bad on not having reconstruction after a single mastectomy, I had expander fitted after the mastectomy and it’s not working as planned, due to my skin being too thin,( I had radiotherapy years ago) I’ve...
