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Hi everyone. Im after any advice anyone has regarding helping control hot flashes! Mine started during chemotherapy (I'm 52 and I was told it might bring on the menopause as i was peri-menopausal before treatment), and ebb and flow in intensity. ...
Hi all. I'm elljay,42 diagnosed with stage 2B invasive ductal carcinoma. Consultant feels that mastectomy is the best option. I accept all that. What keeps playing on my mind is he kept saying my cancer was average,and the most common type of BC.. I...
2nd cycle of chemo started
I was diagnosed with breast cancer on 1st May and with unrelated womb cancer on 30th May. The womb was more invasive so has been treated first with hysterectomy and I’m currently in the middle of 25 days of radiotherapy then 2 of brachytherapy. The only...
Hi all, I had a right side total mastectomy with TAD on 30/8. I saw my surgeon on Monday for dressing removal and aspiration of a Seroma. The wound site has healed well, but I’m struggling with what to wear as everything is rubbing the scar and causing...
Hi, I have recently been diagnosed with a recurrence of DCIS in my right breast. First time was in July 2024 and I had three operations following this, however no radiotherapy/tamoxifen was offered. I have since been diagnosed with a reoccurrence in...
Hi, diagnosed 8 weeks ago, it’s a roller coaster, breast lump 25mm, in my armpit lymph nodes and first they thought it was in my liver, it isn’t, it’s in my spine and hip (easy mistake lol) yet another mri tomorrow then seeing the super life saver SABR...
I’ve had one chemo treatment last week but now have Covid, so next one is postponed… just feel rough and a bit anxious that the infection could become more serious due to the cancer treatment. Hospital aware and I’ve got number to call if my temperature...
I really feel like I need to vent today as I’m struggling. Has anyone else found that once you had surgery and they removed the cancerous tumour that you were just left to get on with things? I started tamoxifen 4 weeks ago, I am having awful nausea...
Currently on my second cycle of EC. Did anyone else suffer from feeling like you were completely out of body and off your head?! My chemo nurses have said they haven’t seen anyone experience it badly before. I was unwell on the first cycle and they have...
