Breast Cancer Now Forum

Hi Hope, Welcome to the forum and hope you are keeping well as best as you can. I was diagnosed with BC in May. Very similar situation to yours, I initially felt a lump, scans showed another tiny cancerous lump in the same breast, the left breast was fine. As a result, my consultation decided Mastectomy was the way to go. I was 44 when I was diagnosed. I had an operation in June, was in the hospital for 7-days (it was private). Due to covid, I was not offered immediate reconstruction. So it's still delayed and conversations will start happening soon for this. I have decided to stay flat on the one side and move ahead with my prosthesis and start enjoying life again. I'm glad the cancer is gone, all done by the end of June. Ops Recovery was about 6 weeks, but getting back to normal activities took a long time for me, I had to learn to just flow with how I felt daily and be kind to myself. Give yourself time to relax and follow your body signals. Some days, you want to just lie in and watch films, read, or even snooze. Other days, you have lots of energy and can move about a lot. However, the arm exercises and gentle daily walks in the garden, down the road helped a lot. My drain was in situ for the week.  lots of information to take in, Its great you found this forum early and you can get useful information from the lovely ladies on here.  I hope the above helped a bit and wish you well.  xx   ... View more

Hi HappyVibes, Thanks. I hope all goes well with your consultant and everything falls in place for you.  For now, I have opted to go Flat and will continue with my prosthesis. So I can look forward to moving on to life after BC. Have a great weekend ahead and let's know how you get on or if you need support, we are here for each other. xx ... View more

Hi Rose, Welcome to the forum. I was diagnosed in May during the lockdown, so had no option of an immediate reconstruction following Masectomy. I can't share with you the reconstruction aspect yet. However, I know the feeling of fear while waiting for test results and in between consultations. The fear seemed worse than what I was facing, and like you, I got to the point of choosing positive thoughts to reduce/eliminate my anxiety. This helped a great deal and I am sure this will help you too. Also, sharing and finding people with similar journeys helped me a lot to know what to anticipate, questions to ask, and etc. So you are definitely on the right path joining the forum as it is a caring community. I wish you the best in your upcoming meeting and hope all goes well for you.     ... View more

Hi Nameste, Thank you! I will try to increase my green veg-Kale and Apricots. Not much of a meat-eater. I do take Floradix (my team was okay with it) but I have not been religious with it. You are definitely right on how tricky to pin down the tiredness. I have postponed the surgery to next year. It all just seemed a bit much so giving myself some time to relax and enjoy the rest of this year. I'm glad you are coping well with Zoladex and no side effects.  Will definitely update when I eventually have the surgery.  Thanks   ... View more

Hi Kitkat23, Thanks for sharing your experience with the Tamoxifen. Hopefully, the tiredness will ease too as I am currently in month 5 of both Zoladex and Tamoxifen. It had been both okay until the recent tiredness which was made me want to bring the oophorectomy forward. But I have decided to wait till the 1st quarter of next year to give myself time.  For now, I'm looking forward to a restful time at the end of the year, as it's been a roller coaster year. I'd be sure to run the diets through the team as you suggested. Seems the way to go. I hope you get on well with the Letrozole. Do take care.     ... View more

Hi,   I had BC-Oestrogen positive in May- Mastectomy in June. Started Zoladex and Tamoxifen in July. Although I was also presented with therapeutic oophorectomy otherwise I might be on both for at least 5 -10 years time natural menopause kicks in.  So far, it's been not been that bad with Zoladex and Tamoxifen, and I thought I'd continue with both for a while as I was not looking forward to another operation soon. But in the last 2 weeks, I have experienced nausea and tiredness.  This has swayed me more towards going for the procedure as that would change my medication to only Letrozole afterward. I have a planned surgery date in the next week, with the children back at school, infection worry is also there.   However, I am just taking it a day at a time until I am comfortable with my decision. Does anyone know any diets that may help with tiredness symptoms while on Hormone therapy? Thanks and take care   ... View more

Hi, My BC was hormone receptive. So on Tamoxifen and Zoladex. I started using both in July and have had some blurry vision sometimes, tiredness, hot flushes. So there might be effects of Tamoxifen in the mix. I am looking into diets that can help ease these, anyone with more info, please do share. Thanks ... View more