Breast Cancer Now Forum

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Hi ladies blimey some of you are like superwoman with energy to spare I am still like a 900 year old woman. I am also feeling very low especially missing my dad who died 3 years ago of lung cancer. I am so fed up of people telling me that I must be happy now its all over. Hmm only 3 week of radiotherapy and 10 years of tablets not to mention bald every where and sore veins plus having to get another prosthesis because big silicone tit does not fit in any bras. Honestly people just don't get it oh and i am being forced into the menopause great and unending joy - Not ... View more

Hi Rosie good luck with nurse tomorrow while you have a quiet time I would make a list of all the question you want to ask. That will ease your mind and aid your recovery Lovewine I will raise a glass to the back of 2014 but won't we appreciate our lives x ... View more

Hi ladies finally out of the chemotherapy fog and waiting now for rads to start in Sept. Very happy not going to feel crap again. Rosie remember why you did this very quickly you got to go to your son's wedding and make lmemories and be on the photos. Now you have to be a patient patient! Frustration is the thing they never speak about with cancer but blimey it's a major part! Glad to hear so many getting varying degrees of normality back can not wait till my energy levels are back. The mind is willing the body is firmly plonked on the sofa. Some of it I believe is emotional exhaustion. Just read leaflet on tamoxifen blimey what a morale booster that was ...Not! Does anyone have any experience of this drug? ... View more

Hi Rosie if u can't wear your prosthesis try a moulded padded normal bra it works well. Ladies found some fab bras that actually fit after no luck with M and S John Lewis. Asda are great fit and fab price plus very pretty. Finally coming out of chemotherapy fog radiotherapy next month ... View more

Rosie safe journey. Lovewine you and I are on the same journey this week re chemotherapy bloods etc good luck Tlj so sorry your face is sore hope u find some relief Joan impressive that you can even find the inclination to attend meeting I have been providing holiday cover for a few hours per day and I have been knackered plus very forgetful To all you other lovely ladies here's to another week closer to ending this Oh and John Lewis have some masectomy bras on sale by Royce ... View more

Hi ladies Rosie have a fab time at the wedding hope the weather is kind and you make some lovely memories. Lisa lovewine Tji wildpurl sorry if I miss anyone so sorry you feel pants it's a much harder journey than any of us could have imagined. I think it's made worse by the lack of information and uncertainty. I think we are entitled to a bl**dy good moan after all this is serious life changing and endangering stuff. As women I think we like to put on a brave face and be very up beat for everyone else but sometimes its just very hard in fact almost impossible. This is not forever we just need to keep looking forward. Onwards and upwards and be kind to yourself ladies xx ... View more

Hi Lovewine   Re bras I dont know how it works in your area but when i saw my prothesis nurse if you see something you like in the brochures those who do the masectomy bras ie Nicola Jane etc. If you order it through her at the hospital they get 10% off, she also advised that the sizes are small and that as I am a 38DD I should order a 38 E. I tried bras at M and S and had to take them back as way too small. I am using my normal bras with my prothesis and it works fine.  The only thing I have had to alter is the the tops and dresses that I wear - I was proud of my boobs and found that people did not notice your fat legs if the view further up was good!. Do hope you get sorted soon but please be re asssured I had a masectomy and it really is not that bad xx ... View more

Hi EAM hopefully all this fecing chemotherapy will be worth it i am lucky that my cancer was confined to the breast so the masectomy and the radiotherapy should put paid to.this horrible disease. I am now bald and proud i have given up with the scarves etc its too hot and I never have them on straight Hope weather holds for your wedding Rose Sounds like everyone is doing well ... View more

Great news lovewine congratulations Rosie your experience with the constipation sounds very uncomfortable blimey I don't know what I would do trying to get appointment with my Dr takes weeks i would have to get Dynorod! So glad so many of us are on the way up ... View more

Hi ladies suffering a bit in the heat but feeling more normal had some good news last week only got to have 3 weeks of radiotherapy not 5! Yippee normality beckons Rose I think you should change your login to Captain Scarlet you are indestructible!! Thinking of getting ringtone for my phone! Well ladies as the chemotherapy fog lifts and we embark on a cancer free life has anyone decided to change things? I am thinking that I want to do more cause we all get our heads down and another year has gone in the blink of an eye. This journey really makes you take stock doesn't it? ... View more

Hello lovely ladies getting over Fec 5 feeling awful but only one to go yippee!! Nearly there ladies we are all on the home straight . This thread is so busy that I can not keep up so will just send best wishes to you all.The end is in sight x ... View more

Hi chaise it is very demoralising when the s/es are bad I too am very ill after chemotherapy it takes me a week before i start to feel like normal. What chemotherapy are you having I am on Fec and that about sums it up! The best advice I can give is drink plenty eat lots of fresh fruit and fibre. I find it washes the damned stuff out of you . I have been put on tranquilisers because my body rejects the chemotherapy so I start throwing up as it's being administered. Fabulous eh? I have 2 more to go then I am done. I also eat a lot of steaks before getting blood done to make sure my iron count is high. Good luck and just keep going. Get support from here and your Macmillan centre and get a break planned to give you something to look forward to x ... View more

Hi Ladies I hope you are all well and enjoying the weather?  Well Thursday looms large again and I will be a zombie.  5th FEC of 6 and to be honest dreading it but can not wait for it all to be done and dusted. Although also wondering what hobby I can take up to replace it!  What with all the tests and the hospital appointments we are all going to have a lot of time on our hands.  Funny how many of us take solace in the garden. How good will it be to say  " I had cancer and I have the radiotherapy tatoos to prove it ! "  Waiting to see how long they leave between last chemo and radiotherapy hoping to get a break.  Can we swim in this lull between treatments?   Had such a snigger the other day met a lady I have not seen since all this started.  She said I looked well and hadnt I lost a lot of weight! You would thing the bandanna was a give away plus I can not walk far now and look like a 90 year old lady.  I told her its the worst possible way to loose weight and I was happier fat!   Teenagers ecstatic that I am having a tattoo as they now think this opens the door for them!  Both are pierced and enjoy festivals but we have banned below the waist and extreem ear lobes!  Honestly they both do the piercings themselves i need one of those metal detectors that they wave over you before you go on a plane!  Loving all the talk about weddings can not wait till my kids reach that age Lord alone knows what they will look like! ... View more

Hi Rosie thankyou we will be in the positive corner should any one want us! ... View more