Morning fellow Anastacia’s! I like your thinking there Kate, it’s time to get feisty! Thankfully the swelling has gone down a little, not as hot and I think the redness is starting to fade. I too had a flash of cabbage recall last night, but sadly not one leaf left on my patch. Cucumber strips were soothing though. I’ve stuck with the tonic and it definitely is reducing problems at night. I remain hopeful that when I finally get to the tablets it won’t make any difference to already menopausal me!
I still fee a cheat on this thread - I thought I would be all done with rads by the end of this week!!
Kary I hope your boob is less hot, but do check out, especially if it gets red.
Enjoy your Mondays - it’s glorious here, so hope it is with you all too. Do you get a day off Rads on bank holidays?
Xxx
yes bank holiday off hurray, with all this talk of sweats at night and bad sleep, does anyone feel like a zombie through the day like me? I feel so tired but I am sure its the fact that I am just not getting a good sleep which is so frustrating. x
Thanks for all the advice ladies. Will get hold of this chillow then in readiness!!! Got appt to start tab beg sept can’t recall date at mo. And a fan too. Sounds good plan! Feeling a bit low for some reason. Have a good day everyone. X
Oh yes Kim, I’m so with you on that - so tired but can’t sleep at night, and lethargic and dopey in the day. Was feeling really low and depressed today but just had a call from a friend and now going out to visit her daughter for tea so brightened up a bit.
Good luck with boosters. I didn’t have them but lady who was having rads same time as me had her booster week same week as my last week of rads and said it was great, in and out so quick. Soon be over. I know I was so happy to finish with mine. My redness is now turning brown like a good suntan, not sore at all, nipple still sensitive but improving daily, still twinges inside now and then but been told that can go for for months and is quite normal. If only I could get a good nights sleep I’d be fine, we then wouldn’t we all lol.
Enjoy what’s left of the BH weekend everyone xx
Yes Sue, get a chillow ready for when you start the tablets, brilliant invention. Also the cooling pads, I put them by my feet in bed. My freezer now has more cooling stuff in than food!
Hi Kary. So sorry you had a rotten day and hope you can get checked out today. If you google “chillow” you should find lots of sites. I did buy the originals about 5 years ago and they lasted about 3 years and very well used! I ended up buying some as presents too, as they made such a difference to my comfort - well combined with a 4 tog duvet, cool max mattress and pillow protectors and silk pillowcase!!! I was a blubbery mess yesterday and also hoping a BC nurse will call me back. Thankfully today there is a noticeable reduction in heat, swelling and pain. Sue I hope you’re feeling brighter too, I’m determined to find Anastacia today! Hugs to all xx
Hi all
Kary and Janey I hope today is a better say for you. Am just back from no.10 so nearly there. I have 4 booster sessions…so 5 more rads and 4 boosters. Nipple is quite sore and told to place a cotton hanky in my bra and it’s quite normal as the rads are aggravating the area.
Unfortunately met a friend up there…her partner has throat cancer so has now got a feeding tube,was in for chemo then rads for 6 weeks. Met her outside while he was getting rehydrated so she could have a vent and eat something.
Just picked up a little hand fan on the way home and gonna look for a small one to have in my room as already hot and not started the tamoxifen. I have a sheet, no duvet and window open, though the nightlife can be noisy here I often find myself on the sofa. Also hubby is a heat monster and can’t take a breeze…uh oh!
Have as good a day as possible ladies xxx
Kary, got my chillow pads off Amazon, they were I think about £19.99 each, I got two. Looks like we all had a bad night last night. I drunk my tonic before bed but instead of getting my usual hour and a half I got 50 minutes, tonic didn’t work! I was sweating, flushing, banging headache. I usually make a rule about not coming downstairs at night as I know I’ll just get on the iPad, but had to come down for painkillers. House much cooler downstairs. I laid on the cool kitchen tiles until the thought of spiders came into my mind and soon got up! Went back to bed, swigged a whole bottle of tonic thinking I cant go on like this, surely there’s something they can do to help us. Think I must have dozed off about 6.30 then the builders doing an extension next door started work just before 8am, if I’d had a gum I’d be in a nice cool police cell now.
Hang on there Kate, so near the end, but watch that nipple though, that’s what gave me the most trouble at the end (and under the arm where I didn’t cream) nipple is still swollen and peeling now but so much better, I can wear a bra for several hours at at time.
what a shame were not all near to each other, we could rent out an outside swimming pool or something at nights and sit in it to keep cool swigging wine instead of tonic water xx
Sorry Kary, just realised you asked about cooling pads not chillow pads. Same, Amazon, I got 3, free P&P, came to just under £10. Same as chillow pads I put them in freezer 2 hours before bed. I save them until REALLY need them and put near feet. Last night was so awful I was putting them under feet, on wrists, crock of elbows, I could have done with at least 100. Just hoping last night was just a particularly bad one and not going to be a regular thing, never have I wished summer over before and longing for cold weather. I’m pretty sure if men had to go through this they would have come up with something to help by now. To add to the delights of Anastrozole I’m now developing painful thumb joints, deep joy!
I do like the idea of a pool outside and a glass Lesley, what a pity we are all miles apart. Certainly glad of you all, as I only had a returned call from the BC nurse just before 5 tonight to apologise for not ringing! I feel better today than I have for weeks, so I think I’ve been fighting an infection for a while. Kary how are you feeling? I’m excited now about cool pads, as I thought they were chillows and something else for the arsenal against heat - I am thinking the heat monster other halves may need a support thread to themselves, so they can fantasise about fires, hot water bottles and hot toddies! Kate, that must have been a shock today. Hope you’re ok and soreness not too bad. Xxx
Anyone feeling like me, totally exhausted and drained but dreading going to bed knowing it’s going to be another night of sweating, twitching and fretting until dawn? Off up the wooden soon, lugging chillows, cooling pads, iced water and tonic water, but you never know, tonight might be different, here’s hoping anyway xx
Fingers crossed. It’s awful to dread going to bed xx
Oh a pool and a glass of wine sounds perfect! And a get together so we can grumble but then have a laugh.
We have a garden pond with some toads in…don’t think i’ll be joining them!! I saw a paddling pool at the market and was very tempted to get one…
Hahaaa…a support group for the heat monsters! Yes mine is struggling but he enjoys going outside on toad-watch…so far he counted 4…he’s out there now!
I hope everyone gets a better sleep this evening xx
Kary you poor thing. Hopefully all will be fine for planning appointment and that your horse pills are as effective as mine have been. I’m day 4 of tablets and feel so much better, so hopefully reassuring. I guess it’s just as week it’s a virtual pool you have us in Lesley, otherwise 2 of us wouldn’t be able to drink! A hot and sleepless night in Devon and hoping yours were better nationwide. We have a pond too Kate - no toads but baby fish and dragonflies have appeared. Xx
Oh Kary, really hope antibiotics kick in fast and no delay in planning/rads, you just want to get started and finished asap. Janey, in the virtual pool you can have wine, G&T, cocktails and bubbly even on antibiotics, that’s the thing about virtual, you can have what you want. I’m going to order more cooling pads, 3 is not enough (they are quite small, and like the chillow pads don’t stay cold one you use them for long) Last night was horrendous again and I was thinking if I was clever I’d invent an electric blanket that instead of getting hot got cold!
Kate, we used to have a pond full of frogs and our dog used to catch them, poor things used to squeak, I’m sure she thought they were the same as her squeaky toys. Husband used to have to chase her round the garden and get them out of her mouth without damaging their skin.
Tommorrow I’m off to stay with my sister for some R&R, and as she lives right by the sea I’m hoping it will be cooler at night. I can always go paddling in the night if the tide is in xx
Kary I’m sorry you’ve had all that to deal with. Hopefully you will get some sleep and heal well enough for your planning to go ahead.
Starting to pink up more now so will see how I go. Home in my floppy vest dresswith littlw breeze nd no bra. I was saying to my sister you would have thought someone would have invented a BC friendly bra…or some kind of cool cotton base boob hanger. I get too trussed up and sweaty in a bra, plus the side scar always seems in line woth the edge seams…then withought one the weight hurts the scar area. She sews so was thinking of a comfy alternative!
Not much planned today…the sofa and bit of rubbish tv I think.
Take care all xx
Lesley you so have to invent that blanket ! And a cooling bra would be good for rads. Dragons Den here we come !
Had my second booster this morning and where they zapped is so so hot and sore. Have people found boosters worse than the whole boob zap?
oh Kim, you poor thing, only 3 more to go though I think? Woman having rads same time as me said boosters were OK as so quick but I did read in a previous months rad thread that someone else did say that boosters were worse. Guess everyone is different. Hang on in there, this time next week you will be finished and can rest and recover, though have to say it’s taking me longer than I thought it would. Some days I feel fine, then the next I seem to go back. This whole thing is awful Isnt? And people seem to think once you’ve finished your treatment that’s it, youre fine and can just carry on like before
ive just started feeling like I’m going down with something, really hope not as I’m off to stay with my sister tomorrow and got a long journey ahead of me. So fed up with feeling like cr*p.
Lesley you poor thing hope you are not getting something, I did read that your immune system is down after rads.