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Im Samantha Im 46 from north London, love my cat and hamster , nit alot of family ot friends due to disability anf mental health. have very few family members left and fewer friends, mainly because i have been so unwell with my mental health, chronic...
Six weeks ago I was recovering on the ward following my operation. I’ve had some ups and downs after the last few weeks and sometimes I’ve felt that my recovery was going backwards. The information given to me by the hospital only referred to the first...
I have my date for my Hysterectomy. All being well it's for the 20th Jan. I will be having my pre-op blood tests and my covid swab on Monday morning. I feel so scared, I'm having total open Hysterectomy as along with the womb cancer I have bilateral...
Hi all What is the norm for isolating before hysterectomy? My CNS advised I will need to isolate for 10 days?
Hello everyone I hope you don't mind me posting here today. It's Steph from the Community team and I'm just popping in to let you know that we've recently shared a Community News Blog you might be interested in. The blog's called ' Let's talk about...
I was diagnosed with 'Serous' cancer of the womb in June 2020 and had Full Hysterectomy in July and chemo in September which I stopped due to side effects then just before Christmas I started to experience problems with my bowels and also a light brown...
I thought it would be helpful to start a thread with alert symptoms that I have been informed, if I experience, I should refer back to my specialist team. These are: Abdominal pain that does not respond to regular pain relief and lasts more than...
Hi am new to this chat. I was diagnosed with Endometrial Cancer 3c grade 2 in December last year. Have been through chemo, full hysterectomy and 25 sessions of radiotherapy and 3 of brachytherapy. Treatment finished in July. Have had ct scan but been...
Hello. I'm feeling rather worried and just wanted to ask opinions on here. I'm 68 years old and had a brown vaginal discharge last September on just one occasion. I tied to just pass it off at the time as it was only briefly on one afternoon and after...
Today marks 2 years since my LAVH-BSO for Stage1/Grade1a womb cancer and it's brought up some memories of that time that I'm sure are familiar to everyone on the forum: the worrying waits for scans and results, the need to learn a whole new medical language...
