Hi (grade 2 bc) I was just sitting here wondering when will I start to feel ill. This all feels very unreal, apart from being worn out and extremely anxious about this I don’t feel like I have cancer.( if you know what I mean) I have a appointment on wednesday to talk about my plan and booked in for surgery on the 3rd may which feels like ages away. Xx
Hi Laww
as I understand it, you tend to feel ill with cancer if it is affecting the functions of parts of your body, or of course as a result of some of the treatments. I had high grade DCIS throughout my right breast and didn’t have any health or physical symptoms - I worked until the day before my op (apart from a couple of days after diagnosis and time off for appointments etc) and then needed time off - several months in the end - to recover from the op and get my head together. That’s not to say I was some sort of super-woman; I was knocked for six by the diagnosis and went around in a daze for a couple of weeks, then the emotions hit and I couldn’t sleep through the night etc etc but that was stress and anxiety rather than the cancer acting directly on my body. Hope that’s helpful - not sure what info you have about your BC and therefore how much of an impact it might be having at the moment? xx
I feel exactly the same, I keep expecting to all of a sudden just become ill but I’ve been reassured many times that it’s not likely to happen. I think it’s the treatments that make you poorly not breast cancer itself x
I hope it goes a little like that for me as I have the children to look after, I don’t really know alot.about.my cancer to be honest I do know that its oestrogen sensitive her negative but that is aI feel like iourts spreading
Sorry I ment spreading as each day goes by. I just want to find out what’s happening I am having a really bad day today 
Hi Laww, I had a grade 2, stage 1, oestrogen +/her- breast cancer with an area of dcis (discovered due to unclear margins after 1st surgery). I never felt unwell which made it all seem surreal and at first I did wonder if there had been a mistake with my results! I was sore after radiotherapy and that did take a while to calm down but generally I felt just as well at the end of treatment as I did at the beginning. Emotionally it was hardest and the sleepless nights at the beginning did make me tired, but like Lizred I worked up to the day before surgery and then had 4 weeks off due to having 2 surgeries. I worked all through radiotherapy and didn’t find it particularly tiring. As the others have said, bc is caught so early now before it has had a chance to spread which is when you would start feeling ill which is why so many ladies say that it was hard to believe they had such an awful disease. I hope you continue to feel well all through your treatment. Michelle xx
Hi. You and me in the same boat. I have noticed that I am feeling more tired than usual. I did the shopping on Sat and knackered myself out. Felt quite done in for the rest of the day. Yesterday felt fine but have woken up this morning a bit tired. I had some wine yeaterday evening so am going to cut that out. Actually wondering if the tiredness is unconnected to the cancer or if it is. Am getting a bit of pain in the right breast as the tumour is very near the surface.
off for more biopsies tomorrow to see if the teeny tiny mm long calcium thingies are cancerous. Oh joy?
HI Laww3,
I never felt ill, I couldn’t believe I had BC. I worked right up to the day before my mastectomy. I then went back to work just under 4 weeks later. I then worked up to the day of my first chemo (6 weeks later) and now I work from day 6 - day 21 in between chemo’s, my next chemo is on Thursday this week. I’m planning on working through radiotherapy as well if I can. I was never ill with the cancer only with the treatment.
Susan x
Everything everyone has said is true. I was only ill with treatment. Couldn’t work thru chemo as I work with 4 year old kids. But worked thru rads. I sometimes think we over think the tiredness too. I know it is a side effect but also we’re more heightened towards symptoms too. Xx