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Hello All. I hope you are well today I was diagnosed with Breast cancer just over 2 weeks ago. I take a magnesium supplement daily. I am checking that it is ok to take a magnesium supplement 1) with Breast Cancer & 2) With Tamoxifen. Any advise...
Hi all, I’m 21 weeks post last chemo session and my brows and lashes are falling out again! Has anyone else had this? I finished radiotherapy 5 weeks ago, are they linked? Worried they won’t grow back before I have to (potentially) start capecitabine...
I'm so frustrated, annoyed, upset, scared and numb at the same time and distancing myself from the ones I love! I was diagnosed with a 5cm ER+ PR+ cancer on 11th July. I'd been seen at the clinic on 30th June for mammogram, biopsy and ultrasound scan...
Hi everyone. I’m Jane. I was diagnosed with BC in February 2022, after a routine mammogram. I was so lucky as the lump was barely visible/detectable and was only 3mm. I had a lumpectomy, followed by 5 days of radiotherapy and am now taking 2.5 mg of Letrozole...
Just been diagnosed.feeling overwhelmed.waiting for biopsy result.
Hi all, I hope everyone is coping with their journey and feeling OK today. As I said I had no telephone appointment with the oncologist yesterday and told her of my symptoms which like many of you had felt were perfectly normal and just the healing...
Hi all, I’m 9 months on from a lumpectomy and lymph node clearance. My latest worry is a pain in my shoulder blade same side as my breast surgery. More like a pin pricking sensation similar to what I had around my nipple a few months ago. I have even...
Hi - I’m new here - I had a simple mastectomy 7 weeks ago and still struggling with chest tightness. It feels like spasms that last a long time. I‘M due to start radiotherapy ( 5 sessions ) next week and worried about the chest tightness getting worse...
Hi, I am being treated in Spain, so things may be different there to UK. I have just been assessed at the very bottom end of the risk of recurrence, and was given the option of either radio or chemo. Has anyone else been given the choice, and if so...
Hi everyone, I had my last EC chemo on Friday, had a few side effects incl racing heart etc. Has anyone had floaters and lights in their eyes? Had these since Friday
