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After surgery and radiotherapy, I’m now on a cocktail of adjuvant drugs (exemestane and ribociclib). I’m having the usual side effects eg painful, stiff joints but I’m also really cold (and often shivering) 90% of the time. Does anyone else feel like...
Hi I have just had cycle 2 on EC. I tried the cold cap but it was too painfully cold for me. The chemo team have referred me for a wig. I am confused if you have to pay for it via them ir not. Nobody mentioned payments. The referral was to "Wonderful...
Hi all, I had mastectomy in 2020 followed with Chemotherapy and 18 sessions of herceptin injections. I had chemo in my right hands and had blood clot during treatment. My right arm still hurts a lot with swelling and stiffness. Then i have my right...
Does anyone else feel they are getting run down more easily after radiotherapy. I had a wide local excision and I completed adjuvant radiotherapy in December, but I feel as though my immune system isn't as it was originally. I also now have a gum infection...
I am having my fourth chemo session on Monday. Over the past two weeks I have experienced the most awful neuropathy all I’ve my body. I have been given menthol cream and three different tablets which have helped so much, however I still get horrible nerve...
Hi lovely ladies, met with the oncologist yesterday and now have my treatment plan. 12 sessions of paclitaxel given weekly and trastuzmab every three weeks for a year so 18 cycles, along with 5 days of radiotherapy. are the side effects worst on...
Hi, i recently got my breast cancer diagnosis and treatment will be letrozole and mastectomy, plan was flap reconstruction but I choose not to and had a little struggle to convince them I want a bilateral mastectomy and use prosthetics. I had DCIS in...
Hi all! I will start radiotherapy on 12/02 till 05/03. 15 sessions. I have been awake for 2 hours and it’s 5am. Just a little anxious! After reading about side effects and long term ones. I tell myself that not everybody reacts the same… I have...
Hi , I’m new on here. i recently had WLE and Targeted Axilary dissection. I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Grade 2 IDC. following surgery a haematoma developed so I had to have further surgery to evacuate this 2 weeks after initial surgery. since the...
Hi, I am asking for advice or confirmation really. its 3 weeks today since my mastectomy. Left side . I am lucky enough to have been able to work from home after the first week of my op. when I stand after working etc the site of the op is tight, it...
