How do you stop the overwhelming panic following a big. diagnosis and keep calm before treatment starts. It doesn’t help that I have waited three months while they have gone backwards and forwards three times with whether to do surgery or chemo first...
Good evening all. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I was originally admitted to hospital for sudden abdominal pain with them thinking it was possibly an appendicitis. I was found to have a complex cystic mass in my adnexal area which they think...
Hola all - this is more a misery loves company post rather than expecting any magic. Went to my first chemo session. All good with the pre-meds but had a grade 3 reaction to Paclitaxel so had to be stopped and I was given rescue meds. An alternative...
Hi all! I'm a bit of an imposter here but was wondering what other people's experiences were. Bit of backstory I had a 20cm borderline ovarian tumour removed in 2024 and now have endometrial hyperplasia with atypia. I have ultrasounds and a uterine...
Looking for some hope in desperation - my mum has stage 3c ovarian cancer. She had 6 rounds of reduced chemo and the cancer shrunk so much on the scans docs were delighted. She went in for surgery today and once open there was more cancer than expected...
Hola again - my hysterectomy went terrifically well so I’m trying not to think I’m gonna get my bum bum handed to me with this chemo, particularly after being made aware of the side effects! So putting that aside and thinking about what we can do instead...
Please can I get some information from ladies who went through surgical menopause in their 30s or 40s? What were your symptoms, and how severe were they? Did you find any treatments that helped manage them without HRT? I’m having a full hysterectomy...
Hi everyone im having adjuvant chemotherapy for stage 1C3 low grade endometrial ovarian cancer and I’m really struggling with the side effects. I've had three of a planned six rounds of Carboplatin and will be meeting my consultant before the next...
I was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer back in Nov 2022. I was told just 4 weeks ago last lot of chemo not worked. Spread to lymph nodes and only last week I had a pleural infusion. How does one react to being given a timeline? How should I behave? Unfair...
Hi there. A month ago I was diagnosed stage 3 ovarian cancer. I had no symptoms other than some pain in my left hip and no family history of cancer.. An mri last October showed abnormalities in my pelvis. It rook 6 months for my case ro be seen by a gyny...
