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Hi everyone I have joined this group to hopefully get some help in how to cope with my daughters Breast cancer and treatment. She was diagnosed with Pagets Disease of the nipple in October. She is currently having chemo via a tablet but this isn’t working...
I have had 3 sessions of Doxetaxel and herceptin and evey time I get a really bad burning sensation in my sinuses and constant blood up my nose. Has anyone else suffered with this and any recommendations for relief? I have tried, saline, vasaline, sudocrem...
I have had 3 E.C chemo followed by one docetacel and several herceptin injections. Has anyone found that the chemotherapy has changed what food your body can easily digest or found that some foods cause more upset in the form of diarrohea? look forward...
Anyone else suffering from bladder infections during and after breast cancer treatment ? I am now on my third round of anti biotics since November . Today I was given a week of Nitrofurantoin . Previously I was given 3 day courses of Trimethoprim...
Hi all, I got a letter to go for a Muga kidney function test which came totally out of the blue. I called my nurses and they told me my last bloods were abnormal (back in Dec). Apparently they are only just out of the normal range but of course now...
Hi Everyone, I am new to the site although not new to beast cancer. 5 years on Tamoxifen , cancer returned now almost 5 years on Examastane . I coped with the bone pain and other not nice side effects but for the past year I have had severe bouts of...
So I had my operation talk from care nurse. It went well I'm just rather shocked at how long the wait is for everything. Depending if my margins are clear I'm good to go for radiotherapy after operation ,but when the wait for that is 6-8 weeks after...
On my first chemo cycle, getting me down this bone pain. Can anyone tell me what they've done to manage, and also how long this goes on for? Can cope with weird change in taste but not bone pain ...please help??? Scalp hurts bad too, but I guess it's...
No matter where I search can’t find anyone like me .,,sounds childish but was diagnosed stage 3c but had also cancer in supraclavicular nodes de novo I didn’t even have radiotherapy till six months after surgury ???was diagnosed 2020 started TDM1 august...
Hi finished chemo on December 16, had 3 rounds of ec and 3 of docetaxel after 2 surgeries, mastectomy and full lymph removal. I’m on week 4 after chemo finished but some days feel worse than during chemo, head feels pressure like I’m going to faint...
