Hi everyone, It's 3 weeks tomorrow since my Total Hysterectomy. My recovery is going as well it can I think, mobility is a lot better and I have a normal bra on today for the first time now my bloat is right down - just a tad swollen and bruised still...
Since my operation (radical hysterectomy) around 2.5 years ago, I have developed female pattern baldness. The hair on the top of my head has got thinner and thinner and now I am nearly bald on top. The general consensus seems to be it is caused by the...
Hi ladies So after a very long wait I finally got my MRI results last week which has initially staged as a 1b (phase 1) 3cm tumour which is over 50% through wall so I was initially quite positive about the prognosis. My local hospital refers anything...
Well, it's now over a year since my diagnosis. I'd been bleeding on and off since March and once I was diagnosed (1a) in June, I started to look at treatments, I was advised that a straightforward hysterectomy would be too dangerous as I would be...
I had my total open hysterectomy including my ovaries and tubes in may 2021. Ever since my op I have had horrendous problems with my bowel. I have urgency, often uncontrollable diarrhoea and am bent double with pain. I went for my three monthly gynae...
Evening ladies - hot and sticky here in the North East, hope it’s pleasant enough where you all are. As promised - update on my first week and 2nd session of chemo. So - despite it being my birthday today my second weekly dose of Cisplatin and 6th radiotherapy...
So today I had my first of five weeks of Chemoradiation and I won’t lie I drove there in trepidation but the day was very straightforward . Chemo first at 9.00 am Everyone was lovely in the chemo unit, very busy still catching up with the Jubilee Bank...
MarmiteFan59 may I please ask how you are getting on with treatment please. Asking for my mum. Do you feel any pain from the brachy at all please. Also would you mind sharing the same of your type of cancer please. Thanks again for sharing and best wishes...
Morning all Thought I's share my good news. Eventually got in to see my Oncologist after a three hour wait (my appointment was at 10am) Had good news, my tumours have regressed further but the little buggers won’t go away, just taking a back seat at...
Well I got my results back from my hysterectomy. It’s stage 1B grade 2 but she said it might be going to grade3 ( don’t understand that). It’s endometrial carcinoma and they said I’ll be getting chemotherapy, radiotherapy and Brachytherapy. I was shocked...
