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Hi everyone, I will be getting my total hysterectomy with on Wednesday. I'm so glad that will be it over and done with. Am just hoping I'll get out the next day. My last hospital stay was during lockdown, when I went for my three times cancelled pacemaker...
How long after finishing treatment do you stop feeling so tired? Been a tough year, diagnosed with stage 3 cancer of the womb in January, followed by total hysterectomy, then chemo and I finished radiotherapy six weeks ago. Yet I’m still absolutely shattered...
Hi folks. You may have seen my previous post on 'Megestrol Madness' where after two and a half years of unsuccessfully trying to lose enough weight for surgery my Oncologist had decided to go ahead with it. I signed the consent form and later met with...
Hi Ladies, Hope you are all doing well, I am hopefully getting married to my partner Stacie on Saturday ( I say hopefully as we got so close last year then had to postpone due to me having to isolate on our wedding day so I could have surgery 3 days...
Hi Ladies I am am almost at the 6 week mark in my recovery and feeling like I have regressed this last week, i am having some cramping and some shooting pains the last few days in vagina area and stronger smelling urine Stomach feels a bit touchy...
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Hi everyone I had my total hysterectomy with salpingo-oophorectomy on 20th, back home yesterday. Of course all the questions that I had ready in my head before I came home desterted me, and now I’m home they decided to surface again. I’ve managed...
Hi, had full hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo oophorectomy 9 weeks ago, recovered really well. I am now due to have 3 sessions of brachytherapy and am absolutely petrified of the thought of it. Is it painful, what are the main after effects? I...
Hi, Well as I'd mentioned before, today is the first session of 3, I was pacing my living room waiting for my arranged transport to arrive at 8.30, appointment was for 12.00, taxi arrived at 11.10, I was a total wreck by then if I'm honest, once I got...
Just thought I’d give an account of my Brachytherapy experience for any ladies who will be having it in the future. For me Brachytherapy was the final stage in my treatment plan. I had 5 weeks of Chemoradiation i.e. 25 sessions of daily radiotherapy and...
