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23-05-2012
08:54
Just a reminder for anyone else reading this that may have thyroid sympytoms mentioned on this thread, that a Thyroid test is very easy to do just a simple blood test and you find out in a few days. Very easy to diagnose. Don't suffer as it's so easy to rule out and very easy to treat with medication which gets your energy levels going back up very quickly.
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02-03-2012
10:26
I've just recently been diagnosed as underactive Thyroid. I had Chemo and Rads and was so exhausted, I just put all the symptoms down to ongoing fatigue post treatment. I was so depressed that I decided to go to the doctors and get some anti depressants to help me get back on track. While there I asked them to do a test for diabeties, anemia and thyroid. Doctor perscribed anti depressants in the meantime.
I didn't take them thought I would spend a week at my mums instead, which was probably the best treatment. Anyway day after blood test my own doctor called me back to say I was underactive, very badly so and put on medication immediately.
My symptoms were so similar to fatigue suffered through Chemo I'm now not sure if I was suffering from the Chemo and rads or the underactive thyroid during treatment. Were those days when I couldn't get out of bed due to my Chemo or my thyroid.
Symptoms of Thyroid I was suffering from were, depression, mental foggyness, exhaustion, sleeping all the time, not able to make it up the stairs, bloated face, baggy under the eyes, weight gain, sore arms (had this from the veins being blasted with Chemo and also can be down to the pins and needles of the thyroid problem), heavy legs, lack of balance etc.
The SEs I think are only with Hypothroidism are the extreme feeling of being cold all the time, extremely dry skin on my hands and tingling in the fingers, and possibly the bloated face if you have been off steroids for a while.
I would suggest that anyone post cancer treatment with continuing symptoms of fatigue and other symptoms asks for a Thyroid test.
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22-01-2012
09:41
Found a link to the Article not on the Sunday Times website but on the mumsnothavingchemo website. Not sure how to do a click on link so it's just a cut and paste in your browser, sorry. Also just seen my profile picture which was a shock as I really don't look anything like that now. It's strange how much you can change in a year I had forgotten I ever looked like that. I much prefer the new me short brown hair I look much younger and cooler!
http://www.laura-bond.com/articles/health/Laura%20Bond%20-%20Mum's%20Not%20Having%20Chemo.pdf
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22-01-2012
06:09
Hi Everyone it's been a while since I posted on here. It's six weeks since my last treatment. Has anyone else seen the article in the Sunday Times Style Magazine today about refusing Chemo and replace it with Homeopathy and Vitamin C injections. I am furious as one of my friends did this quite a few years ago and died.
I believe the way it's been written is irresponsible as there hasn't been a good right to reply stating the facts of how Chemo ups your chances over say a five year period and isn't necessarily evident immediately.
My view is that if say in my case my chances went up with Chemo from one in three to one in four. Then if 100 women in my situation read that article and half follow her advice then they will be responsible for the death of 2 women who would otherwise have survived.
I've written to the editor as well as the people who run mumsnothavingchemo.com. Please do the same if you have similar thoughts. You may not feel the same as me or as strongly.
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29-08-2011
06:54
My eyebrows have more or less fallen out as much as they are going to (just had last Chemo) but there are still quit a few left, mainly stubby grey ones. I started wearing my Chemo makeup before they all fell out. I had never worn eyebrow pencil as I have very dark thick eyebrows. Normally in the summer I wouldn't wear much eye makeup.
So I bought my pencil with a brush at the end and would gently go over my eyebrows in a shading way rather than drawing them on. By the time the fell out I was used to shading in the area and they don't look great but aren't too bad. The tip for me was the shading gently then smudging into the eyebrows that are left rather than drawing on. Also the little grey hairs pick up the colour from the pencil. Also I started wearing black liquid eyeliner as it helped with lack of eye lashes.
As with a wig I would have felt too conspicuous going out with false eye brows.
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29-08-2011
06:51
My eyebrows have more or less fallen out but there are still quit a few left, mainly stubby grey ones. What I did was to start wearing my Chemo makeup before they all fell out. I had never worn eyebrow pencil as I have very dark thick eyebrows. So I bought my pencil with a brush at the end and would gently go over my eyebrows in a shading way rather than drawing them on. By the time the fell out I was used to shading in the area and they don't look great but aren't too bad. The tip for me was the shading gently then smudging into the eyebrows that are left rather than drawing on. Also the little grey hairs pick up the colour from the pencil. As with a wig I would have felt too conspicuous going out with false eye brows.
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10-04-2011
09:09
Hi El Good luck with the holiday and with the Chemo. I am into my third week after my first dose of Chemo. I found the first week tough but I had also had two lots of surgery in the previous six weeks. So I would say that how long since your last surgery would also have an effect. I hope you get your holiday, I am going away tomorrow and am really looking forward to it.
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