Hi all, im doing ok …finished rads few weeks ago now. That was a breeze compared to chemotherapy for me personally. I have my herceptin infusion today and continue to have that every 3weeks. I started tamoxifen in august and so far it is treating me well. I do get the hot flushes but had begun getting them on chemo. As I had mastectomy and nodes removed earlier in the year at the moment all thats left now us regular check ups, heart scans and mammogram in january. Also want to start discussing reconstruction . Have energy and eye lashes etc back now and I have hair on my head, about grade 2 all over.Still wear my scarfs as had long curly hair before and feel not ready to reveal my short hair yet ! All the best Ladies x
LOVELY to hear from everyone :smileyhappy: So glad everyone seems to be doing okay. LOL about the hair coming back EVERYWHERE! I seem to have everything except eyelashes and you know where! My hair is coming back iron grey rather than the chestnut with some grey that it was before - but I’m so glad it’s coming back that I like it!! I’ve the oncology appointment this afternoon so I’ll find out when/ if I can start radiotherapy. I wonder why it is needed if we get clear margins (I can’t help worrying all the time). I’ve still got an open wound on my reconstruction which I wonder will mean delaying the start of the radiotherapy. I saw the most awful picture of a girl who’d had the same recon and who was red raw from collar bone down to under her breast after radiotherapy - so that’s scary. I wonder they carried on bless her. So it was good Debs to hear that you found it a breeze. Fingers crossed.
Has anyone else still got chemo side effects? I still get the hot flashes (and sounds like these will continue once I’m on tamoxifen) and also some slight vertigo at night. I’m now two months post chemo. I also am not sleeping well either Mel - so maybe this is normal post chemo. I’ve also been trying to get some fitness back - although nothing so keen as cycling! I’ve no longer got the horrible leg pain I had on Tax so going for walks a lot more.
Stelwah good luck with your results - have you had these by now? Hope all is going well in your healing too. Will you have to pay for private genetic testing or will NHS give you this? Seems tough if the former after everything else.