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Hi everyone Could anyone please relate to my situation. I have completed my chemo just about to start radiotherapy for two weeks. I am so scared now I'm coming to the end of my treatment,I am obsessed with feeling for lumps every ache or pain I'm obsessed...
I have finished with intravenous chemotherapy and now just on herceptin injections. The herceptin causes diarrohea and fatigue for a few days. I am due to start radiotherapy this week. Can anyone tell me about the tiredness it causes? Is it likely to...
Hi everyone. I wanted to try and improve my fitness levels whilst undergoing treatment. I’ve had a lumpectomy and lymph nodes removed 7 weeks ago and I am starting chemo in the next couple of weeks. My fitness is appalling right now and I have the strength...
Has a single Masectomy 3 weeks a go.I was told my Chest would be flat.In fact it is very and up and down,which is fine.I do however have a bump near my arm pit,which is irritating when I move my arm.I also find my comfy irritated it. As an aside do...
Hi ladies, I've recently started taking Anastrozole, i am three weeks in now. So far i have found i have more hot flushes, some headaches (although not for long). Then i woke one day and felt like my thighs were made of lead. A BCN said to give...
Hi all its been a while since I was on here but have no idea where else to ask - Dr Google had failed! I had her2+ breast cancer estrogen negative. I had 3 Fec then 9 pacletaxel treatments followed by herceptin and mastectomy. Treatment started Sept...
So afraid , will be having op on 29th November , lumpectomy then chemo . This is going to kill me that is all I can think :-( :-(
My mum has recently been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, grade one. She has to have 8 cycles of chemo before they go in for surgery, she has had 3 cycles of chemo so far. I was completely blind sided by her diagnosis, it’s not something...
Hello everyone, I don't really know where to start but here goes. I was diagnosed 6/11/20 with invasive er+, pr+, her- breast cancer with mets to lungs, liver and bones. I'd been in ridiculous pain, mostly in my back which I'd assumed was work related...
I have had my diagnosis for 8 weeks, I the time I have had double lumpectomy and double lymph node removal's. ....... but now I have to wait til 30th Nov for my Oncology appt & I'm stressing big time
