Hello,
I’m about to start Zoladex & Tamoxifen.
It’s been such a long recovery getting to this point - mastectomy, reconstruction and IVF, but as the back to back procedure stage is now over, I am able to starting to looking to the future and my fella and I are planning a holiday.
How would one work a holiday around Zoladex injections?
We’d like to go back to a wonderful place in Goa, India which holds special memories - to lick our wounds after what has been such a difficult year (my boyfriend also lost his father very suddenly). Ideally we could go for about 6 weeks but my injections are monthly. Is it possible to get the jab administered outside the UK? Has anyone had a similar situation? Goa has fairly modernised hospital facilities but would they stock it? Does it have to be refrigerated or could I take a syringe with me to inject myself - I’ve just managed 2 IVF cycles of complicated injections to myself with no problems?
I’m keen to hear from anyone with any advice here at all - the nurse at my GP’s was really unhelpful.
After all we breast cancer patients have been through, I want the empowerment of knowing what I still can do - not be told what I can’t. Surely it’s not unreasonable to want to be able to take a trip of this kind?
Maybe I could have the 3 month jab this time and then go back to the monthly? Is it even possible/advisable to move from the monthly to the 3 month then back to the monthly?
This is all new to me?
If you girls can’t help - who should I be talking to?
All the best.
Meg.
I have a friend who was on Zoladex and needed a jab when on holiday and she was given it to take with her and shown how to inject herself. She was also told she could take it to a local hospital (she was on holiday in Switzerland) and ask them to do it for her if she couldn’t face it. So I don’t see why you shouldn’t be able to do it yourself. Good luck!