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Hiya I’ve just joined as a google search brought me to this forum… I hope I’m posting this in the correct section. Im 38, and starting fertility treatment.. on the first couple of scans my lining was slightly thicker than they would of liked (12mm...
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...
I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer grade 3. I had a full hysterectomy with robotic keyhole surgery 6 weeks ago. They took the sentinel nodes, the pathology report came back showing a very small cancer in my right sentinel node. They said they can...
2022 is proving to be a strange year as all the milestones from 6 years ago are falling on the same day as they did 6 years ago. Monday 16th May 2016 Hysterectomy followed a mad dash on Friday 13th to get hubby into care before my surgery Thursday...
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...
Had my op done robotically on Tuesday, the op took longer than expected. My body temperature dropped very low so I had a bear hugger back on the ward, I was expecting to come home yesterday but they kept me another night as I was exhausted, glad it’s...
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...
