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I’m doing well just waiting now to be called back to my Surgeon for the results of the biopsy’s on both breast and lymph glands. Should be in another 3 weeks To wait. had knee replacement 8 weeks before this, not been my year.! Things can only get better...
A week after my drain was removed post mastectomy I had a large swelling which BCN nurse said needed drawing at the clinic - this happened 3 times over next few weeks and I’m now seeing my consultant fortnightly with ultrasound when any visible fluid...
Hello lovely ladies. last September I got diagnosed with stage 2 TNBC. I had 6 months of neoadjuvent chemo, then double mastectomy and removal of fallopian tube’s and ovaries. I have also been having keytruda the whole way through. I got a complete pathological...
Ive been on letrozole for 18 months but had terrible side effects painful joints especially & now high cholesterol! Oncology has suggested I try Tamoxifen but the side effects of that seem even worse especially as it says to avoid alcohol!! (I don't...
I was on tamoxifen for 3 yrs changed to lectrozole coupe mo tbs ago. I experienced horrific nightmares first week or two. Now waking lot in the night, trigger finger, burst blood vessels in fingers 4 occasions, painful knees, painful neck etc. I think...
Hello, I'm torturing myself with worry and panic, and I wondered if anyone had experienced anything similar and could talk me down from my fears. I had a mastectomy on my left side 4 weeks ago today. I was diagnosed with intermediate DCIS in September...
Hi I was diagnosed on 7th November 2021 with IDC 8mm hormone positive following my 3rd routine mammogram at 56. Surgery on 7th December all good and 5 sessions of RT finished beginning of February. Then 5 years of anastrozole I have just had my...
Hi all I was told I have breast cancer on Friday, and I’ve been completely floored and overwhelmed by it. I need to have a course of chemo before a lumpectomy (so long as it’s shrunk enough), along with radiotherapy and injections to stop my hormones...
So my mums vein felt sore and hard and she told the hospital who got her in for a urgent scan, they said it was a blockage as she had irritation from the chemo, they gave her a bag of injections to do each day to thin the blood and help clear the blockage...
Oh..... Diagnosised with invasive Lobular Breast Cancer today!! Got to have MRI / CT Then lumpectomy/ Mastectomy Radiation and maybe Chemo unless I qualify for a trial treatment.... Hello..nothing else to say
