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I'm 7 days in on my second cycle of Abemaciclib - and I am struggling. I'm juggling episodes of severe diarrhoea and bowel pain with loperamide which then causes constipation. Trying combinations of drugs under advice hoping that there is a 'normal' stable...
Hi everyone I suffer badly with anxiety and am constantly afraid the cancer has spread or recurred. I am undergoing adjuvant chemo and have already had mastectomy. Every twinge seems to set my mind racing . It’s been just over four months since...
A few weeks after I started to take Tamoxifen I noticed I started to have heartburn, something I have only suffered from when I was pregnant over 24 years ago. I later started to belch. My G.P. Prescribed Lansoprazole which has had some good effect but...
Hi everyone I'm looking for tips to help stop seroma after mastectomy. Thanks.
Hi all, I’m a newbie. Found a lump in my breast at beginning of sept. Mammogram showed another area. Ultrasound another in one lymph node and MRI showed another suspect area. I’m having chemotherapy and immunotherapy before either lumpectomy or mastectomy...
Hello, I joined this forum 7 weeks ago when I was first diagnosed with 15mm encysted papillary carcinoma in situ. For a number of reasons I opted to have a double mastectomy. Home same day, 400ml+ from right side drain, returned hospitals, kept in two...
Hi all I was diagnosed at the end of October with grade 1 breast cancer, caught very early with a routine mamagram. I then saw the consultant a week later who confirmed that I would have a lumpectomy followed by radiotherapy. I've now had my lumpectomy...
Both my surgeon before my mammoplasty and oncologist before radiotherapy told me my affected breast would end up smaller (two small lumps removed) but it has been 7 months since surgery and 3 months since radiotherapy and it actually seems larger…?! Anyone...
Hi, Finally got results back from my lumpectomy and it's good news from a surgery perspective, clear margins and lymph nodes ok. Feeling very relieved! Told that the next stages are to start tamoxifen soon, and then radiotherapy will start in the...
