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02-11-2015
05:54
Hi All. Haven't been able to post for some reason - tried several times. I started feeling much better so started Anastrazole. Was dreading it after the awful time I had on Letrozole but have to give it a go due to aggressive nature of tumour. Already got painful joints, swollen glands (again) and pain in bones. My target at work today was 4-5 hours but had to leave after 4. Already in PJs.
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30-10-2015
08:47
Was supposed to start Anastrazole today but chickened out - actually felt sick worrying I'd be as ill as I was on Letrozole.
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30-10-2015
05:10
Good luck with work, Lorna. I'm due to see occ health again next week to work out when I'll go back to full time. Doing 3 X 4 hours next week.
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28-10-2015
08:49
The Lymphoedema in your boob sounds painful, Christine. I don't know how you keep going. Before this I slept 6 hours a night at most, now I sleep a solid 7. Have you thought about putting yourself forward for a Duracell ad?
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28-10-2015
05:54
Hi Christine. Glad things are going well for you. Work is a challenge. I'm in 3 afternoons a week on my phased return but yesterday I didn't get home till 7.30 because of various goings on so I was absolutely shattered and all my lymph nodes have swollen up again. I keep thinking I'm doing ok but then do too much and go back to square one. I could never have imagined going from being really lively and busy to dragging myself round like an injured dog.
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28-10-2015
05:38
Hi Dorice. Sorry you have to be on here. It's been great support - really helps to exchange experiences. Also good for those who are up before dawn - morning, Christine!
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27-10-2015
09:02
Sorry you're suffering financially and emotionally on top of having BC, Francine. I was told rads added 58% to survival. Good luck with everything. X
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27-10-2015
06:48
Hi Jill. Good luck with work today. On Friday I was on my own in the office for three hours (rare) and it gave me a chance to get my head round some of the changes, which helped. I bumped into a colleague who'd had BC. She said it took 6 months to recover from treatment after she was back at work.
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27-10-2015
06:43
Morning, all - also discombobulated by clock change and have been up since 5. My check-up is in a year. Is anyone else having lung probs after rads? I've had a cough for four weeks and a chest infection for three weeks. Had to sign a form that I was aware my left lung might be damaged.
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26-10-2015
05:57
Yes, that was me. I actually went back the other day when it was quiet and a young woman measured me. It was ok, thankfully,
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26-10-2015
05:50
Glad you had s good experience, Christine. Nice that there are decent, supportive people out there.
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23-10-2015
09:50
Managed to get through second week of phased return to work - absolutely knackering. Would be ok if I had nothing else to do! Forced myself to go to staff meal - lovely to be out and feeling/looking relatively normal (thanks to new shell prosthesis) but then someone said that a colleague's cancer was due to bad karma. I should have bitten my tongue but, thanks to a couple of glasses of wine, asked what she thought I'd done wrong in that case. Not the ideal mood lifter.
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22-10-2015
07:42
Hi Sara. Sorry you have to be on this site. I found I couldn't touch my affected breast during treatment because it felt like a lump of dead meat. I have only been able to treat it as part of my body again recently. I felt like my body had betrayed me (though perhaps it was me that had betrayed it by expecting too much of it). I think you develop a new relationship with it over time. Lots of luck with your treatment.
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20-10-2015
05:30
Hi Monica. Don't go back till you're ready. Although my boss was supportive, there were references to other people who hadn't come back "till the last moment," which made me feel some pressure. Occ health suggested going back for only 2 2-hour sessions the first week. I felt dreadful on those days. I don't think I'll be back full time till after Christmas.
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