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Hi Everybody, Wishing everybody lots of love and luck wherever you are on your journey! Just looking for some advice on how to deal with the paranoia and obsession after mastectomy and breast implant please. I am continously checking both breasts...
Hi, I’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer and have just started my treatment which is 6 cycles of chemo, surgery then radiology. My next chemo is this Friday which I’m dreading as I had really bad side effects from the first cycle. Has anyone any advice...
Hello, I have an extreme form of Neuropathy in my surgery site (mastectomy), hands and feet. I seem to be an anomaly and have yet to speak to anyone that has also suffered. The medical community don't have the answers so I have decided to reach...
Hi everyone, it’s been a long time. I have been having pain in my right armpit. I’ve had a double mastectomy with 2 lymph nodes out of my right armpit and one the left. I’ve recently had a burning pain in my right armpit. I’m two years post surgery...
I had a lumpectomy and node removal just over 2 years ago, I have been on tamoxifen after radiation therapy since then. I have has some scar tissue and cording, but there is a lump that feels more round and pea like, similar to how the original tumour...
Hi all, feels like a world wind to be honest this journey I’m on , I’m 41 and found a lump 31st January went to doctors , then Breast clinic was told 2 weeks later after biopsy that the lump was cancer (3cm) they then found calcification in the same breast...
Had 4 rounds of chemo and had mastectomy with implant re construction and full right lymph node removal.will have some radiotherapy soon and some form of chemo cause I am her 2 positive and have the chek 2 gene also.i was meant to have 6 round s of chemo...
I had DCIS and had a lumpectomy in June 2022. I went back to hospital over a week ago as I had noticed a change in same breast...my breast above lumpectomy scar has sunk in to my chest. They did a mammogram and I go back on Monday 17th for a scan. Obviously...
Hello I went for a mammogram on the 28 th February now I've been called back to an assessment clinic 21st march I have got a spot on my boob that everyone has said is a spot it started off as red but then started healing I have been a nervous wreck all...
Hi, I have had my lumpectomy in Jan then lymph node clearance in February. There was only one lymph node had cancer in out of 31. I have been through the menopause and I’m 60 years old. I have an appointment to see the oncologist on Monday, this is...
