Hi everyone hoping that this is OK to post. Don't know where else to turn. My mum has been having upper left side pain, almost under shoulder blade for about 6 weeks now.. it's tender to touch. She went to GP a while ago and they sent her for...
My husband is undergoing chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. He had 10 sessions-one every 2 weeks. They take a blood test before the session and today his Platelet count was 66 (last time it was 88) and the doctor wanted us to postpone the chemo for one...
Hi All I'm looking for some advice as I am a bit worried about some symptoms that I have been experiencing. I am having a dull pain in the top of my abdomen on the left hand side as well pain underneath my left shoulder blade. In addition I also feeling...
Hi Everyone I was on here alot back In 2017 when my mum and dad were diagnosed with cancer at the same time. Dad had stage 3 osphegeal cancer which had it successfully removed by surgery and had the all clear and is fully discharged now. Mam had...
So I feel like I need to ask others there experiences of how they started to experience having pancreatic cancer to mainly see if what I’m experiencing matches up. To set the scene around 18 months ago I had a severe case of gastritis that effects my...
Hello and thank you for listening. I’ve had ultrasound scan with normal appearances of pancreas and normal CT scan. My GP thinks I have symptoms of either pancreatic insufficiency or bile acid malabsorption in the absence of a malignancy showing. Can...
My husband has been in remission for 18 months after having immunotherapy for bowel cancer which then had to be stopped due to causing ulcerative colitis. Today we have received the report from his CT scan and the conclusion was Suspected paraceliac tumour...
Hi just joined as my mother just got devastating news just before Christmas of pancreatic cancer that has spread into the liver. She is going for a biopsy of liver next week and hopefully will start some chemo if she is fit enough. Love to hear if anyone...
I cant talk, I cant think, I cant make sentences that make sense.My husband was told his tumor was inoperable. Breathe, I told myself but in that moment there was no air.I felt an innate need to control the utter heartwrenching sobbing that needed to...
Dear friends, Since september 2023 I have experienced fatigue, followed by pain in the right upper abdomen and back, mainly when lying down. In january there was unexplained weightloss followed by nausea, noisy bowels, very frequent burps (due from...
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