Breast Cancer Now Forum

Hello ladies , lovely to hear from you , it's gone pretty quite on here, I hope that means everyone is well and getting on with life , I'm due to start my rads on mon for 15 sessions , I notice a few are doing the breath holding , it wasn't mentioned to me at all , what's it for ? Poor you brave with the cellulitis , was it due to the radio and the problems with your recon or just unlucky with the rads , I'm glad your feeling better now and I'm so impressed your cycling , did you do a lot before all this , I'm wanting to take up some form of exercise , I don't have a bike though so that's ones out of the window , maybe I'll start with some gentle walking . Hi Carole , sorry your feeling down , I'm not back at work yet but I can remember from last time when I started back at work that's when I started to feel stressed , I'm not looking forward to it at all , I work for the Nhs and it's all down banding , more workload and doom and gloom , I really dont want to go back full time , you have done the right thing by not going in and a holiday with your mum is prob just want you need , have plenty of treats and you time , hope you pick up soon , and if not give your breast care nurse a ring , Lv to both of you xxx ... View more

Hi brave , how you feeling ? Sorry your feeling down , it's such a long road of treatment , and with your dad as well , it must be just all consuming at the moment , so no wonder you not feeling yourself at the moment , do you have anyone you can talk to , I did do the counselling the last time and it helped , I keep getting down moments and then they pass so I'm hoping yours has too , I've got the cording too , I can't straighten my arm for it , my shoulder fine though so I'll be ok for rads , I think when you have been through as much as we have everything builds up and the little things you could put up with before just feel like mountains , if that makes any sense , sending love and hugs , xxx ... View more

Hello ladies , carolec and bibbi glad you doing ok , very impressed you doing some exercise , I'm not at that point energy wise yet , it's 2 wks since my node clearance and I'm still sore and abit swollen , also got some nerve pain down the outer part of my arm so doing the exercises are difficult , I'm seeing physio on mon , thankfully there was no cancer in the nodes removed , my liver enzymes are playing up though so you automatically think the worst , I've been for an ultrasound and the doc who did the test said she couldn't see anything wrong with my liver so fingers crossed , I should be starting rads mid to end of feb , it's half term now and my little boy woke up full of cold poor thing , typical while he's on holiday , have a great wk end , Lv to you all xxx ... View more

Yipee the drain is out , feel so much better without it , it's just results now on thurs , I dread results day , thanks bibi for the hair care advice , I'll have a look on that website , the tax trots are horrible , glad it's settled now , hope your other half feeling better , I got that cold 4 wks after my last chemo and I still have a blocked ear and sinus , everywhere you go people are coughing and sneezing , thanks Jenjen , we have a holland & Barrett local so hopefully I'll be able to get out at wk end and I'll get some of that rosemary shampoo to try , hi Tania , hope you feeling abit better , my mood has lifted abit now so I hope yours has too , love and hugs to everyone , I'm going to walk upstairs and enjoy not having to carry a fluid filled bottle around with me 🙂 xxx ... View more

Hello ladies , how is everyone , I feel abit better mentally today , god knows what the general did to me but I def had a big case of feeling sorry for myself , I even had a moment of weeping yest about having no hair , no boobs and being single , phew , thankfully I'm a little better today , I've still got my drain in which I'm sure could have come out as it's only draining 50 ml and no more , it's very irritating , also my shoulder and armpit now hurts from the clearance so I'm back on the strong painkillers . Did everyone do cold cap or are done of you total blaldies like me , hi bibi , where is the hair lady from you got advice and where do you get that shampoo from , yipee for hair dye after 6 wks , 3 yrs ago they said 6 mths , which was horrible when your grey , I ended up still wearing hats and being self conscious about it , you can hide the no boobs but the hair thing is a different matter , I'm at the wound clinic tom morning so good riddance to the drain , yipee , love to everyone xxx ... View more

Hello ladies , feeling abit low today for some reason , not sure why , think it's just been a long haul and with it being my second time I'm feeling abit sorry for myself , my hair growing back very slow , more at the back but not much on top so I look abit like an old man at the moment , I know aveeno have a new shampoo out so not sure if that would be any good for you ladies that are having problems with your scalp , aveeno cream was the only thing that sorted my very dry skin out , I think it's 6 month for hair dye if I remember from last time but I think you can use the herbal one from holland and barratt before then , some of my hair white !!!! I was a brunette before , but did colour my greys up , are you all using special shampoo or just the ones you used before , I'm not sure what to use , Lv to everyone xxx ... View more

Hello ladies , I'm home from having my clearance , feel rough and sore , got my drain still in , I have to ring the ward daily on how much it drains , the general anaesthetic seems to have knocked me for six this time , maybe it's still all the chemo , I'm not sure , hope everyone ok , I'm off to lay down , love to everyone xxx ... View more

Hi deb , so that means the chemo doing it's job , yipee , that's positive and makes you feel better when you got a couple more to have , my son had a chest infection and stomach bug and I managed to avoid them by lots of hand washing and wearing a scarf round my mouth , yes I looked a sight , but at home it doesn't matter , my white blood cells used to drop very low every time , I caught my cold from my niece that came to visit from oz , I just can't get shut of this thrush from my mouth , it's horrible , I can't taste anything and feel like I've a lump in my throat , so you have my sympathy xxx Hi bibi , yep that auto correct , I should check before I send ha ha , no it's in the morning my op , so I suppose it's upto the anaesthesiologist if I'm fit enough , I did tell the nurse at pre assessment about my mouth and ears but she didn't seem concerned , but she did say if the thrush got worse they wouldn't do it , so we shall see , I just want it all over with , but I want to be fit enough for the op , hope you ok ? Xxx ... View more

Debs poor you , hope you not feeling too bad on this one , your having some horrible problems with the chemo arnt you , what was the outcome of your last scan ? At least an end is in sight with the chemo for you xxx It's the day before my clearance and I've a blocked ear and thrush in my mouth again so I can me not having my op , having a bad cold after chemo has really set me back , I've been to my doctors he says my ear are fine it's just fluid and I've got more fluconazole for my mouth , Lv and hugs to everyone xxx ... View more

So sorry brave to hear of your news , my thoughts are with you and your family and sending big hugs to you all , I can't imagine how your feeling right now xxxx Has everyone finished chemo now ? I've got my lymph clearance on 20 th jan which results of that determine if I need radio , I'm triple negative so I havnt got the option of tamoxifen , has anyone got any hair growth yet , I couldn't use the cold cap and it's 5 wk from last chemo , the growth is quite thin and fluffy , hope everyone one xxx ... View more

Hi ladies , just want to say happy new year to everyone and hope you all had a as good as possible Xmas , side effects permitting , I'm now waiting on my lymph node clearance then depending on results whether I have radio or not , liver function abit dodgy at mo so that needs checking out , I've forgot how tiring running a home is and looking after my 6 yr old , phew I'm asleep before him ha ha , I keep going home for a day then back to my mums for a rest , love to everyone and thoughts are with anyone suffering with the chemo xxx ... View more

Hi ladies , glad your op went well brave and now it's over with , hope the drains come out soon , it's the drains I hated more , hope you not too sore , how's the scar on your tummy ? Well done bibi with the cold cap you must have been so cold , I've had to wait for pharmacy before and it's not a quick process I'm on day 19 after chemo , feeling more human at mo just tired , had problems with my sinuses and now my tooth , went to dentist yest whom put temp cover on but they built the tooth up that much I'm now just chewing on that one tooth which is causing me pain , so I'm going to ring them back , also had my bloods done at my doctors just for peace of mind really with Xmas coming up re my white blood cells and then got a phone call saying I need to go back for a repeat as my liver function up , I wish if left it now so I won't worry , I've turned into a paranoid constant worrier , is there a tablet for that you think I could take ha ha , love to everyone , debs how you going on your 2nd T , if you anything like me you will be still in bed, it is truly awful , fingers crossed it's doing it's job xxx ... View more

Phew bibi , that's fantastic news , you must have been so scared , I've had a few scares in past which turned out to be fat necrosis which is usually near our surgery scars I've only just started receiving emails again about your posts so not sure what happened there , I've just had a spell in Weston park cancer hospital , the TAC got the better of me again , mouth full of ulcers , face puffy and felt weak and faint , been on iv antibiotics , I'm back home now but mouth still sore , more gums now and roof of mouth , ulcers now on the mend , so glad that was my 6 th , will read through posts more just getting my little boy off to bed , we are very late tonight , big hugs everyone xxx ... View more

Morning ladies , I'm liking the hugs button , richelle thank you for your post last night , I read it and the hope bit really did give me abit of hope , it's now day 7 after 6th TAC , I was feeling slightly better yest and then up all night feeling sick and runs , just took some diarolyte as I feel a little dehydrated , hopefully it's stopped now , Sarah glad you feeling better and that you feel abit of normality , the stairs are difficult arnt they , I usually have a lay down to get over it , Sarah and Shelleyjenks , good luck for the final chemo and well done for getting so far , hope everyone ok , I'm going to have a lay down , looks like another bed day , my sister and her family are over from Australia , I've been very emotional as it's hard as I want to do normal things with them and my son but I've just been too poorly and I'm in bed for the best of 10 days after chemo , keep telling myself it's the last one , think it's the time if yr , and then when I'm better they will have gone back , grrrr , feeling very left out and isolated at the mo , I'm going to press all your hug buttons to cheers myself up , Lv to everyone xxx ... View more

Hi debs glad you posted have been thinking of you , I get exactly the very same side effects , we must be the unlucky ones , maybe they might reduce the dose next time , I've had 6 of them now and onto 80% reduction due to the SEs , so I do sympathise with you , the mood does lift , it does make it very difficult with little ones , I've gone through an array of emotions re my little boy , make a list and go through everything with your onc so they can do there best to make it manageable xxx ... View more