Breast Cancer Care Forum

Lady34, glad it went well and you were good to eat, that's a good idea for the slow cooker might do the same! Carolyn99 that's good you u/sound was encouraging news, hopefully that chemo will blast the one lymph node involved. Xx   ... View more

Hi Aurore Thanks for that I'm glad to say my cough is almost away but the pain in my upper back is still there. The oncologist however is sending me for CT chest and bone scan just to be sure. Starting chemo on Thursday so hoping I get at least one of them done before then. I'm just worried because this particular type is so aggressive.   Also there was some vascular invasion around the tumour so that increases my risk of recurrence or metastases. I really hope it just tension or nerve pain after surgery.x   I hope your treatment is going well too, it's just rubbish that we're having to go through this at all!! X         ... View more

Good luck for today lady34, Hope you get through it no problem and with little in the way if SE's.xxx ... View more

Ngh1974  Sounds like they're hitting you hard, but glad you're recovering from surgery.  I'm a 1975 baby! But right at the end so not 44 til end of the month, so I'm hanging onto that 43 ?.   Mc22 I think the wig is synthetic as the hairdresser said it can't be styled with tongs or heat appliances but I think it looks quite natural so if the cold cap doesn't work I won't be devastated to have to wear this when I'm out and about. Xx ... View more

Hi, The waiting is the worst!! You imagine the worst case scenarios constantly I was worse once I got my results because even though the radiologist said it looked suspicious I didn't quite believe it so when my results confirmed cancer I was devastated.   But, like everyone told me, You get through that. so I'd say prepare yourself for the results they said to expect and anythingt better is a bonus.  If it is BC then they'll deal with it , cross one bridge at a time. The fact they've said it's the best one must mean it's very treatable, so bear that in mind before you convince yourself this is the beginning of the end. And on a practical level, yes you can shower with paper stitches.   Xxx     ... View more

Ngh1974  Sounds like they're hitting you hard, but glad you're recovering from surgery.  I'm a 1975 baby! But right at the end so not 44 til end of the month, so I'm hanging onto that 43 😊.   Mc22 I think the wig is synthetic as the hairdresser said it can't be styled with tongs or heat appliances but I think it looks quite natural so if the cold cap doesn't work I won't be devastated to have to wear this when I'm out and about. Xx ... View more

I haven't had it cut to shape yet but this is the one I got today. We get a wig voucher up here and a list of hairdressers that participate. This should've bee £320!! It's really great though, I can pull the fringe back and you'd never know, the hairline is invisible. So at least if the cold cap doesn't work. I have a wig ready. It's lighter than my own hair, I'm strawberry blonde kinda colour, pale ginger so they didn't have one my colour, this looks like I've had my hair highlighted.x   ... View more

Oh no Carolyn99! Hope it's not broken, maybe just staved (don't know if that's just a Scottish word, lol, so hope it makes sense). I'm so glad the side effects cleared quite quickly but you're right I really don't fancy weekly either! She felt ok throughout though so that's good. I don't start mine til next week (Thurs) had booked my Xmas night out with work on the Saturday but I don't think I'll be up for it. I'll see how I feel on the Saturday morning. If I'm not too nauseated I might go along just for the meal and come away before the drinking starts 😁.  Hate to miss my Xmas night out.🎄 Going for my wig consultation today, although I will try the cold cap, I thought I might as well get  the wig incase the cold cap isn't successful or I don't tolerate it well. Not sure which wig to go for... can't decide between Brian may or David Bowie circa 1980, lol. ... View more

My marker was put in when they took the biopsies, I think the radiographer was so sure the lump was sinister.  I didn't feel it in the slightest.  My friends' colleague recently had chemo before surgery for triple negative BC, the tumour had halved in size after one pulse. She was getting hers weekly though. By the time she had completed the chemo they couldn't see it at all so the surgery was guided by the marker that they had put in! Hope we all have such a good response to treatment. 🤞   ... View more

https://www.breastcancer.org/tips/nutrition/during_treat/expert-qa   Found this which might be useful for anyone wondering about diet. ... View more

Thanks fluffball, I'll eat like I did in pregnancy then, just to be safe but surprised that there was absolutely no mention of this at my chemo prep meeting and nothing about it in the booklets ( well not that I've seen so far... still wading through them) but yeah I'm with you I'm thinking surely turmeric or matcha present in small amounts in diet must be fine. Obviously I won't take supplements with more concentrated doses (I don't anyway) but a healthy diet with no unpasteurised foods should be ok. I'll avoid pomegranate and grapefruit just incase, don't want anything to interfere with the chemo working as it should 🤞. Xxx ... View more

Best of luck for tomorrow Silvertong.  Hope it all goes well and you feel ok with it.xx   ... View more

Hi ladies, I had my oncologist appointment today to go over chemo plan. I start next Thursday.  They never said anything about foods so now I'm wondering what things are restricted and why. I drink green tea with lemon a couple of times a day, is it not allowed?? What's wrong with pomegranate? I thought plenty fruit n veg was recommended for vitamins and minerals 🤔. ... View more

Hi Carolyn99, Glad it wasn't too bad, hope you're feeling better after a good sleep. Xx   ... View more

Wishing you the best of luck for tomorrow Carolyn99. Keep us posted how it goes, I'm a week  behind you so really hoping it all goes well for you. Hopefully it won't be as bad as we're imagining, think of all the thousands of people who've been where we are, we can do it!! 💪 ... View more

Hi Livers, Glad I'm not the only one under prepared, lol. I'm kinda running on the principle that I'll eat as healthily as poss, drink loads of fluids this week and see how it goes, we're all different and it will probably affect us all slightly differently, and there's always 24hr Tesco's 🤣 I'll get fruit juices in to make ice lollies and fruit chunks for the fridge and gingernuts  forwhen I'm feeling seedy n don't want to eat and take it from there. I won't know til tomorrow if it's definitely the 10th I start so we might well be starting together.   Keep in touch so I know how you're getting on with it.xx   ... View more

jeez fluffball, sounds like you're super prepared!! Go you!  I'm going to write a list tomorrow and start getting things ticked off this week. I've got some questions for oncology on Tuesday already written down, shame they can't answer the one we all want to know...will it definitely work?? Until 2 months ago I'd have described myself as healthy, I'm never Ill, barely even catch a cold. When I told my kids it was the first thing my son said, ' but how can you be the one with cancer you're always the one who never gets ill?'. So I'm really hoping that stands me in good stead for getting through chemo...wait to you see, bet I'm terrible at it!! I'm going to our local cancer care charity place after my oncology appointment to get myself booked in for some support sessions and pampering treatments.  Good idea to get the skin and nails etc prepared so I'll get on that this week. I have quite dry skin already so I'll need to get moisturising. I'm a nurse myself so I usually have the basics in in terms of medicines so I'll see how things go but will add some zovirax and corsodyl to the stock.   We'll get through it I'm sure...we've no choice really, it's the hand we've been dealt unfortunately.  We can compared notes as well go. ♥️   ... View more

Hi debelina, I'm the very same, had my surgery already and was totally focused on that, now I have my oncology appointment on Tues and probably chemo the following week and I'm really under prepared. I see other ladies have already sorted out wigs and hats and researched side effects and I've spent the weekend so far Christmas shopping and celebrating my positive results on Friday! I really need to get my finger out and write a list I think!   ... View more