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HI i am due to take my dressings off shortly and I’m a bit wary of my bra rubbing on my wound before it is fully healed. A lady on another forum (Asda’s Q&A re the bra) recommended using micropore tape to cover the wound until it’s fully healed. I’ve...
Hi everyone Had lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy a week ago for an invasive breast cancer. I’m 50 and luckily found the lump myself in April. First biopsy in May was all clear but the ultrasound was a 4 on the 0-5 scale so I was called back 8 weeks...
Hi everyone I had a lumpectomy and sentinel node removal two weeks ago. One incision which looks all closed now and clean. however, the pain is getting worse not better. I have been doing the over head exercises now and wonder if that’s the cause...
Hi all I could do with some of the above if there is any. My 37 year old wife's masectomey is booked in for the 15th of Aug. With pathology results coming a week or so after. She is having massive anxiety that they going to find invasive in there...
Hi everyone , I ve just had biopsy results back and what I thought was radiation fibrosis from treatment 2 years ago is actually my cancer returned. Going for bone scan and full body ct scan this week, not sure what to mske of it all!,! Xxxxxxxxx
Hi there, hoping for a little reassurance or anyone with a similar story to speak with. I had a mastectomy this summer for 8cm of high grade DCIS. I was offered reconstruction but rejected it. I have large breasts so have made the decision to remove the...
So... on my first holiday abroad since skin saving single mastectomy. Very self conscious due to being extremely lopsided but haven't looked at myself in a bikini so I don't know how strange I look! anyway, my husband , who had a triple heart bypass 3...
Hello everyone. I had left side Masectomy 24 March this year, all went really or so I thought, my implant now has ridges about five across my breast, looks pretty awful, if I squeeze my boobs togeth you can physically see the implant moving around. Just...
Hi After a routine mammogram (I’m 53) I was diagnosed with primary occult breast cancer on Friday 13th October last year. I’m told that breast cancer appears like this rarely - in about 0.1% of patients. Basically I have several enlarged lymph nodes...
Hello. I'm due my first round of chemotherapy on Wednesday! I'll be having weekly sessions for 12 weeks and then every 3 weeks for 4 sessions, before surgery and then radiotherapy. I'm 33 and a single mum to a 3 and 5 year old, I'm petrified of any side...
