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Went to my gp few weeks back with some ongoing acid reflux, bloating and weight loss (only 7 pounds ish). She requested bloods and a pelvic ultrasound to rule out a few things she said. So I had the bloods on the Tuesday, ultrasound in the Thursday. All...
My mum has recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and will start chemo in the next few weeks. I really want to get her somethings that will help through her treatment days. Can anyone advise really useful things ?
Hi all! Following a full hysterectomy as my ovarian cyst turned out to contain cancer- I’m also now having a course of chemo- 6 rounds. I’ve had my first one- and had a pretty bad reaction- which I believe also was because I caught an infection (bad cough...
Was diagnosed with ovarian and fallopian cancer a year ago .Have had necessary operations followed by 6 rounds of chemotherapy. CT scan in march showed all clear but after discussing with me, oncologist have offered and put me on Niraparib tablets. These...
Hi new to the group, my friend has ovarian cancer she has had debulking and bowel surgery and most cancer has been removed although they have had complications and now she has fistula, leakage from bowel. She needs another op to rectify it caused bad...
Hello I’m new here and after reading a lot of the threads I thought I would reach out. My gorgeous Nanny has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and has ca125 markers which are approx 250 and a tumour which is approx 20cm and confirmed spread to other...
Hi I’m nee to the group i was diagnosed 9th December with stage 1c high grade serous ovarian carcinoma after hysterectomy to remove two very large ovarian cysts. After many years of suffering endometriosis and also having had many rounds of IVF with...
Hi Guys, so i got diagnosed just over a year ago. I did 25 days of radiotherapy and 5days of chemotherapy which was every Monday (9am til 4pm). I also went into hospital for a week for internal radiotherapy. Treatment finished 8 months ago now, I've had...
Hi. I’m recovering from surgery two and a half weeks ago: abdominal hysterectomy, supracolic omectomy and left hemicolectony and anastomosis (bowel resection). My general recovery is going well ( wound healing and mobility) but I feel I know very little...
Hi, this is going to be a bit of an epic post so apologies in advance. In November 2019 went to my GP with left sided hip pain. (I was in a job where I was on my feet for 12 hours a day) Saw a locum GP who examined me more than my normal GP, found I was...
