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I had pancreas preserving whipple surgery in 2018 but now need my whole stomach removing as it is completely carpeted with a mixture of high and low grade dysplasia tubular villous adenoma polyps (I have FAP and have already had duodectomy, gallbladder...
Hi all, this all really started when i came off Naproxen after nearly 3 years of taking it, and my doctors treated my with erosive gastritis, gave me cosmocol to treat me with constipation, and whenevr i ate went straight through me for a while and i...
Hello, I'm new to this community but am reaching out for a bit of support. My lovely brother has been diagnosed with suspected pancreatic cancer, not 100% sure but pretty much. He started an agressive chemo treatment plan this week. He doesn't live...
Hi I am new here. My husband has been dealing with this horrible cancer for almost three years. It’s getting very hard now. Chemo is finished and I am having a hard time dealing with it. I hate to see him got through this. I have a range of emotions everyday...
Over the last few days my husband has been having back pain and can’t get comfortable at night, I had to make him two hot water bottles last night and he had two paracetamol and eventually went to sleep, he still won’t talk about anything, I’m not sure...
I have just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. What a hell of a shock. Still trying to get my head round it. My husband is also struggling as he has always relied on me for paying bills etc. We are both retired so don't have any financial problems...
We are still no nearer treatment for it because her biopsy was inconclusive. I feel like there is no sense of urgency with her care, that she is gonna be another statistic in the nhs backlog as it’s obviously spreading all the time and nothing is stopping...
I am on a break from treatment and would like to have 7/10 days holiday, probably in Portugal. I am having difficulty getting medical insurance at anywhere near a price I can afford. Could anyone suggest an insurance company/broker I could contact...
hello my husband was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer which has spread to his liver in June after 12 months of being fobbed off by our GP. He has undergone chemotherapy which he didn’t tolerate very well. He had to have it made milder which...
Hi I'm here because back in May my mum had been in hospital for 4 weeks when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, she'd been having pains in her abdomen, while hubby and I had been on honeymoon and hadn't told us. When we came home I knew something...
