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Hi, I have now been on Letrozole for 2 weeks and I seem to be shedding my skin, it’s like a snow storm when I get undressed. has anyone else had this? Is this normal? Due to start radiotherapy so conscious of moisturising!
Hi I have breast cancer I've had four and a half months of chemo then 2 surgeries which ended in me having a right breast mastectomy. The week before this operation my husband left me .we had been together for 22 years. I also have to have my left breast...
Hi I finished my treatment 18 months ago. I've been on anastrozole since which has been okay apart from odd hot flushing and painful sex..I use vaginal moisteriser v San which stops any itching but sex is painful. I've read that it's okay to have topical...
I had been doing well with my diagnosis, biopsies, operation to remove the cancer but now things are beginning to unravel and I feel very sick and alone. I am coming up to having my 3rd chemo but have had a very traumatic time so far. Reacted to both...
Hello everyone I am seeing radiologist next week and AM having bloods taken beforehand is this normal? I'm a very anxious person and this is my first time seeing radiologist after finishing chemo. Thank you x
Today I went back for a consultation with the breast surgeon, I already knew I had a malignant invasive carcinoma (B5) which was small 10 mm that I had to have removed, but I now know that the much larger area that was unknown is now not cancer but precancerous...
Hi all, well sadly last year I lost my dad , he had bladder cancer, a few months later my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer , 9 weeks later I lost her, while she was in hospital I was diagnosed with breast cancer ! My daughter left unexpected to move...
I was last seen by my consultant on 3rd January when he said he wanted input from the sarcoma team who are based at a different hospital. I understand he has emailed them twice, once before Christmas and once on 3rd January. Since then no news and the...
Hi there, I just wondered if anyone is on exemestane and what their experiences of it are. My concern is the reduction of white bloods cells and the risk of infection which I had thought I had put behind me following completion of herceptin , chemo...
Hi - I had a mastectomy and an immediate DIEP free flap reconstruction in September 23, unfortunately the flap did not take and I had to get it removed the day after. I have now recovered enough to consider a second reconstruction but because I am on...
