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Fizog
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18-06-2018
03:30
Hello there My husband worked for an Australian company for 6 months last year. I had to undergo a thorough medical to be issued with a visa to even set foot on antipodean soil and I had been diagnosed 5 years earlier with no ongoing problems. We signed up with Medicare and had no problems seeing a doctor or getting repeat prescriptions. Most people I met had private Bupa insurance as a back up to Medicare as the health system isn’t as good as the NHS. If you need an ambulance you have to pay for it, so private health care is a must. Dentists are all private as well. Australia changed their Visa categories while we are out there and it is now more costly to settle there. Where you needed £8000 for elder relatives, it was upped to £40,000 to cover future medical costs. I don’t know if that would be similar for somebody with a pre existing condition. You will need to do your homework before embarking on your applications, I wish you all the luck in the world as it is a fabulous country.
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17-03-2017
02:34
Any operation takes time to recover from, and rearranging tissue and muscle will take it's toll. I hope you are doing your exercises to keep everything moving . I had a symmetry op 3 years ago and I still massage the scar tissue as it gets stiff. I am sure your workplace and gp and occupational therapist can come to agreement as to when you are fit to return to work as we all recover in different ways. Good luck sweetie!
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03-02-2017
09:35
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Hello after 16 months on letrezole I noticed my hair thinning and a friend suggested Nourikrin tablets. Mineral and seaweed based and my hair has stopped falling out and settled down. My hairdresser said once it had started thinning there was little anyone could do...Oncologist said it happens and Dr suggested iron tablets and a fungal liquid neither helped. My hair hasn't returned to it's once glorious life and thickness but at least I'm not finding it everywhere and hair balls in the plug hole.
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20-09-2016
10:03
Every now and then after a tough yoga class or swimming I get tightness round the implant I just massage the boob round and round and it loosens the fascia...the area must have a lot of scarring and lets face it the area is not going to feel normal!!
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20-09-2016
09:59
I am also in the thinning hair club 🙁 Had blood tests which were all fine, my Dr suggested I take an iron supplement, even though my iron levels were fine .......it seems to have strengthened my hair and nails. Less hair is falling out so hopefully I can hold on to what I have left. My hairdresser said there is nothing you can do other than be clever with the styling or have it cut short!! My grandmother had thin hair in her 80s, I'm guessing the letrezole has fast forwarded my hair 2040!!!
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11-11-2012
11:44
Jayne M I am 3 cold cold caps down and thinning on top, I have invested in 2 crinkly silk scarves from Suburban Turban which will wrap round as a head band or can cover whole head, really gorgeous colours and very glam!
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02-10-2012
11:10
Ah ah! I can post, haven't been able to for a while. Got through chemo número UNO ok, being careful not to be too confident as I got off lightly with SEs.
I was bricking it before and it was nowhere near as awful as I had imagined it would be. Slightly cheesed off as my Onc dr said I'd be fine on the train and I have discovered at a hat and scarf day at my hospital that everyone else round the table was told to get a cab or go by car.. . Am I not special. . .?
interesting opinions on diet, I have not felt like eating meat, I am going with what my body is telling me so am looking at interesting veggie options OH is bit disappointed at my meals so am going to throw him a chop and steak on his plate. He's ok with fish as long as it has a sauce smothering it.
Controversial on the soy front. . will ask Onc their line seems to be eat what you want. I am having soy milk in tea but still eating cheese on the dairy front and the odd cream tea.
I had a mastectomy August 14 and my body is still weak on the fitness front. I used to be on my feet all day working in a kitchen and I would do Pilates and Zumba twice a week, I'm out walking and have just started Tai chi but have no strength in my legs, I can manage the walks but the tai chi my legs ar shaking after 10 mins.. . Anyone else like that ?
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02-10-2012
10:29
I know what you mean about noticing your hair fall out. every hair and you think eek there goes another. I have done one cold cap and so far so good, fingeas crossed. it wasn't as freezing as I expected and I didn't start shivering till an hour and a half had gone and then I whipped out the gloves and pashmina and coat.
i had itchy head but I cut my hair short before the chemo so I don't need to brush or comb out just gently run my fingers through it when I wash it or get up. I did invest in a silk pillow and bought the naked shampoo from Boots . . .no idea if it is helping or not. Body hair is starting to go. .
2nd round Monday wish me luck. .
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13-09-2012
11:38
Speak to your BCN who should point you in the right direction. My hospital had a bra fitting service so you could find the right size for after op. I needed a much larger under boob size to compensate for swelling I was a 34 E butwas fitted with a 38 D. 4 weeks post Op I onLy now need a 36 D which I have adapted comfy postoperative bra with needle and cotton.
I am lopsided Sassy1 perky C cup one side and saggy E cup on the other! I had a recon at same time as MX. It is usually a year on before you can have a reduction in my case as I ,have to have chemo and everything needs to settle down.
I am disguising oddness by blouses with interesting distracting prints! If I wear a tee shirt then a comfy is stuffed on the minor side.
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04-09-2012
11:59
Hello September babes!
I too am starting chemo on 17th FEC indeedy! I am scared witless but feeling calmer as the big day approaches. The A4 list of could happens is so comforting don't you find. Every time I go for an appointment I am handed yet another booklet on breast cancer to add to my ever expanding library that I have to lug home on the train.
I have tried being a bit of an ostrich to get a bit of normality back but it just ain't working.
I had a MX and implant 3 weeks ago and am sleeping 10 hours a night and still need 2 hours in the afternoon. Anyone else reverted to nursery hours? What the hell will I be like on chemo? A bald sleeping beauty?
Let's compare notes as the cycles commence.
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30-08-2012
11:50
Hello Kathryn
My first reply! I too am a few weeks post op and my implant is giving me jip, until I read some reassuring posts I thought I was being a bit of a wuss. I feel as if I have plastic picnic bowl sat on my ribs which moves as I do.
I too feel low low low and I don't have little people to see to. We will get through this and there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. . We just got to dig in and hang on. Take every offer of help going I am sending positivity vibes your way.
F.x
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13-07-2012
07:18
I was diagnosed yesterday and still reeling but your posts ( now I can read them) have given me an uplift maybe I will stop crying quite somuch.
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