Hi ladies, Sorry I haven't been in touch for quite a while. Lots of side effects and additional problems... Had to see gynae several times due to extremely heavy bleeding for over 12 weeks... further tests showed cysts, fibroids and thickened lining but he doesn't want to do invasive treatment until cancer treatment finished. This didn't help bloods...severely anaemia so had to agree to overnight stay in hospital and blood transfusions (or chemotherapy couldn't go ahead...levels were very much border line). Week later, district nurse wasn't happy about chest pain I was experiencing...go came, rang 999 and I had a ride in an ambulance.... diagnosed with blot clot in lung...so now on daily blood-thinning injections for 6 months. I thought the FEC was bad enough... but T is by far worse....seem to have all side effects going....nail pain, eye sight deteriorating, awful taste in mouth, ulcers, headaches, sickness, constipation for a few days after treatment followed by diarrhoea, piles (very sore due to diarrhoea.Sorry!)etc... And the bone pain is awful....worse and lasting longer than last time... on morphine liquid -takes a while to stop/ease the pain but then it returns after only 40 minutes. Up until this week I have always tried to be really positive but this week has been so bad...I have questioned whether I can actually continue like this...and now I have oral thrush! My last cycle is on 24th November( hopefully)... and I am dreading it! Radiotherapy to follow Also, read on another site that if you are on thinners for clot, they won't do reconstruction...Had left mastectomy before chem started so lopsided still... any one heard that on here?
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