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Hi Everyone....me AGAIN lol but I absolutely know you will have some good advice for me in this. Well I am here midway through week 5 doing ok. I have started to feel the treatment talking it's effect on my neck it is red, the skin feels tight and I am...
Hello everyone. I have just been diagnosed today with mouth cancer. I have a growth over my front teeth which is cancer. I have been told I am lucky as its an easy place to operate on but will still need part of my jaw removing and reconstructive. ...
Hi everyone well I have got to the end of week 4, 20 radiotherapy treatments done and 2 chemo, there were times I didn't think I would get through it...but here I am as everyone said it has been...and will continue to be hard but is manageable! What I...
Advice needed please. As some of you know I am recovering from treatment for throat cancer (Radiotherapy) and would love to go to a quiet place, without crowds, and preferably up in the mountains or in the countryside. Ideally an all inclusive resort...
So, after 2 weeks back in hospital for acute dehydration, dangerously low levels of potassium and magnesium and to have RIG refitted (that's another story)! I received an appointment for MRI scan on my liver. No warning, totally out of the blue ever since...
I was diagnosed with carcinoma of the left buccal mucosa last year. Had 31-day radiation therapy, chemo, surgery. Was just beginning to feel safe once in a while when the cancer reoccurred in September 2022. I'm now being treated with chemo and immunotherapy...
Hey, My husband has 8 sessions of radiology left which will make it a total of 33! What a year we have had. Just wondering if anyone else has gone through similar, he is coping well and still working etc .. skin starting to look sore and he is struggling...
Hello, my name is Jackie I’m the wife of Mark for 32 years who was diognosed early October. He has a base of mouth tumour, under tongue, back of tongue and in the lymph gland..We were shocked and very naive of these types of cancer thinking this was only...
Hello all 2 weeks ago I finished 6 weeks of daily radiotherapy & weekly chemo, and was given an NG tube weeks as I was suffering badly with nausea & vomiting - unable to keep anything down. I haven't been eating at all for 2 weeks, just having overnight...
That's a catching heading eh! A quick update to say thank you to everyone for your advice. I am now on stronger sickness medication and although the phlegm is the same it is not making me nauseous as previously so I feel so much better. These small changes...
