Hi,
I’ve not been on here for ages least 6 months. I wanted to try and get some normality back. The time has finally come for hopefully my final operation. I’m having fat transfer from my stomach to my breast. It’s only a cup size difference but I was adamant I wanted it done at the time. It’s now 12 months since I had radiotherapy and I can now have the op. The crazy thing is I have got to the point where I don’t care that my breast are no longer the same size or symmetrical. Since Breast Cancer in October 23 my body and mind has changed so much. I’m on Tamoxifen and I have really struggled with side effects.
Hot flushes, anxiety, brain fog, lack of sleep and now I’ve been told I’ve got Fatty Liver (not alcohol related) I’ve been told Tamoxifen can cause it. So had a break for a couple of months from Tamofen. My liver is constantly being monitored. Fed up with the hospital appointments.
I’ve totally can’t be bothered, no motivation. Totally exhausted.
Am I the only person who is struggling with the post treatment. I hate seeing people now because they just expect you to be fine and everything back to normal. I also can’t be bothered explaining myself to these people.
I use to be full of life and motivation and now I feel in on a ticking time bomb.
Can anyone who’s had fat transfers tell me their story.
Or if anyone on Tamoxifen also struggling? What have been your challenges and how have you got round them?
I got around it by stopping tamoxifen, however, the benefit was low, my risk is low, so I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone. It made me depressed, like a cloud hanging over, you sound quite down, understandably so, it could be the tamoxifen as much as what you’ve been through. A few anti-depressants are also used to treat hot flushes (citalopram is one). A double bonus, could try that if not already on it.
Being overweight can cause a fatty liver, its not just alcohol. A healthy diet and regular exercise can help with side effects too. No harm in delaying further surgery, if its not your current priority I would of thought. Hopefully you will be the best judge of what is best your mental wellbeing right now, if surgery is not it, so be it.
I know what you mean, everyone around me expects my life is back to normal when it isn’t, including family and colleagues asking if I’ve been dating anyone lately as single! Really, some people have no idea.
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Thanks for replying, I feel I’m on my own at times. So it’s means a lot.
I will speak to my doctor about how I am feeling. I just feel I need to get a grip with it and move on, because that’s what people except me to do. But I honestly have tried, then I burn myself out trying to do to much to please other people. People who actually are not in my small circle of who I should give a dam about. But I allow their opinions affect me and it annoys me that I’ve let that happen.
On the positive note, I’ve been out for some long walks these past few days and feel a lot more positive.
What was your percentage (benefits).if you don’t mind me asking? Mine is 5% which doesn’t sound a lot but it pushes me to 90% I also refused to have chemotherapy as that was only 4.2% and I had slow grow cancer.
5% is a fair amount, mine was about 1.5%, but also complicated by having a rare her2 positivity on an otherwise slow growing grade1 tumour. Treating both receptors would have been optimal, but I was knocked back for herceptin and chemo as was low grade, so treating only 1 receptor out of 2 seems pretty pointless to my mind should there be any stray cell lurking- hopefully not as no lymph node involvement and had lots of radiotherapy.
My type was so rare, Ive never come across it, so I doubt the numbers are there to make the predict tool all that meaningful in my case. Less than 1% have my type and out of those over 90% are Her 2 negative.
Overall, it’s most likely good news that I got the type I did, and should it return with the same receptor profile, there are lots of options of drugs to chuck at it, so I try to count myself as fortunate in some ways.