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I had my op on Friday 6th September. Am doing well but saw a nurse practitioner at the surgery on Friday 13th cos having trouble opening my bowels. This has now been resolved. I asked the practitioner to look at my wound and she said maybe there was an...
Has anyone been able to take their phone into brachytherapy? I use music to help anxiety. I did mention it during a hurried consultation but I'm not sure what the response really meant.
HI, I’m on the 2ww cancer referral. I had a hysteroscopy on the 20th August. They took some biopsies as he could see thickening of my womb. On the trans scan they could see that my lining was 24mm thick. The endometrium is slightly irregular in outline...
Hi everyone would just like some advice/your experiences through this part of my journey. I had an ultrasound last week, following a post menopausal bleed and received a call from my GP later that afternoon to inform me that it had detected a thickening...
Hi, I’m 12 weeks post surgery now and over the last few weeks I’ve noticed that my lips are dry and sensitive (especially to spicy foods) and I’ve also developed some eczema on one foot (never had this before)… I’m just wondering if it’s coincidence...
Following a slight post menopausal bleed at the end of May, I had an ultrasound, an ‘awake’ hysteroctopy, following by another under GA. 5th August I got the results stage 1 grade 1a. As an overweight 59 year old I was referred to prehab classes and for...
Hi All Apologies I have already put a picture but it went on a different page as getting used to this forum. I went for my urgent 2 week referal after having a internal scan and abdominal scan which showed 6 2mm thickening and heterogeneous myometrial...
Hi everyone I rang the bell three times today, to mark the completion of my treatment. It was a good feeling to ring the bell, and now I feel that everything I went through is starting to sink in, the surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, what a journey...
Hello everyone I have recently joined the forum, but have had endometrial cancer since March 2023. I consider myself very lucky. At age 56, I have been past the menopause for a few years, one small bleed, off to the GP and then a hysteroscopy to find...
I have had a radical hysterectomy as I have Clear Cell Endemetrial Carcinoma. A rare and aggressive cancer. I am at the hospital tomorrow to hear what treat I’ll be needing. Did anyone record their appointment on their phones? There’s so much to take...
