hI there, am new on the site and would like to link up with others here. Am recovering from surgery on Monday and am recovering well with not much pain.
Hi leadie, welcome to the site (sorry you have needed to though), good to hear your op went well and the pain is controlled ( I had my op on 28th Nov, so a bit itchy now!)
Hi narnia, thanks for the message. Yes it’s a strange thing being on this site, never had believed it 8 weeks ago!! But this is life!! I am really angry because I had just moved in with boyfriend in July and were enjoying setting up home together, then this!!
Hi again Narnia,
notice you have been talking about arnica.I’ve been taking it in a 200 since my op on Monday, it is really brilliant stuff. You can take 2 a day for a couple of weeks.
You won’t be able to buy it 200 potency over the counter, but can buy it from Helios which is an online. I love homoeopathy and have used it for about 20 years and my children grew up with it.
Where are you in the treatment?
arnica really seemed to have helped, but my homeopathist told me to take the 30c grade and to stop a few days post op, which i did.Have to say, my bruising is a LOT less than when i had my biopsy (no arnica then!!), so i am really please with how it helped.I also had very little blood loss into my drains, maybe 100mls in total, over three days, so it may have helped with that too? my nurse and surgeon both were impressed with how well i have healed so far, everything is clean and dry, a bit itchy and a tender spot where they took the lymph node, but otherwise, not bad at all, i don’t need to take pain killers at all and haven’t since about five days post op.
As my cancer has spread into my sentinel lymph node, they are sending me for chemo, as well as the radiotherpay, and then i have to go to have the rest of the lymph glands removed.So, another three weeks or so for healing, then 18 weeks for chemo , then another 4-6 for radiotherapy. sees me up to the summer really before i have the extra surgery.all a bit of a poo, but got to be done!!