Breast Cancer Now Forum

Some useful suggestions from you and other people. My father always took milk of magnesia for something or other. I can’t remember what. I don’t really have any muscle aches or joint aches. It’s my carpal tunnel that’s a problem which predates breast cancer by about ten years. I had an operation on one side which has made a big difference long term but I had excruciating nerve pain for six months after the op and could hardly use my hand during this period. I have joined a gym, swim weekly, do circuit training, walk every day for 45 mins with our dog, walk there and back to the nursing home where my mother is living now, spend ages each week moving stuff from her empty house to the recycling tip. I am on a diet of very healthy food. None of it stops me from feeling annoyed about being diagnosed with breast cancer again after 19 years and having a mastectomy. I had a reconstruction at the same time. It’s remarkable compared with the awful reconstructions they used to do in 2003 when I got diagnosed before. I have an aversion to hospitals going back to my childhood when my mother had postnatal psychosis and was locked up in a mental hospital in England when we lived in the Channel Islands. My brother had a lot of operations at Great Ormond Street on his club foot. We used to go and visit him and go to regular appointments there. Whether this has given me an aversion to hospitals is anyone’s guess. The number of doctors and nurses who have proved to be murderers doesn’t inspire me to do what I am told with a happy feeling. when I see a doctor I think Harold Shipman. Nurses - there’s quite a few examples but I won’t name them. Mind you there’s a few murderers around who haven’t been doctors, and I used to see one when I worked in East London years ago. It was Denis Nilsen. He worked sometimes in an office where I was a benefits clerk. Maybe it’s best not to trust anyone. Seagulls   ... View more

Hi...I have been taking Letrozole for 6 months and the side effects with this prescription is running nose, sneezing, hot flashes and freezing all the time. I'm very active running, weight lifting, spinning, Bootcamp,yogi class and also eating clean. Very little to no joint pain due these intense type of excerise, keeps you from losing bone mask. However the memory delay hot flashes , cold flashes and thinning hair. I think you are right about the different brands of prescription and each having different side effects. During my Chemo treatment I had running nose and sneezing just terrible and bone pain. I had to walk everyday just so the pain wasn't bad and finally I started back running and weight lifting which help stop the pain altogether. I will call my doctor because these new pills is effecting my immune system. Thank you for all your help. May God continue to bring good health in your life😘 ... View more

Wooo... we have all flown off, but will still remember our flutterby days. 7 years free now and STILL on letrazole ☹️ But grateful to be here. I wish medics of any sort would think to ask "is there any lasting difference from before you had cancer " or words to that effect! Bless you all. I have retired now! ... View more

I wrote this a while ago 5 years or more in fact Still Here !!! Love this thread, on this disease that fills us with dread, Bold and brave in the hope that we will be saved, Trust the Doc and take stock of life and loves, Question not the why? Only to realise it is I, the person once was whole and now feels like Alice in a rabbit hole. ... View more