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SJ19
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04-07-2016
11:49
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I have had numbness and pins and needles in the surgery side. I also getting it when driving when my hand is in one position. I put it down to removal of lymph nodes. I don't know how common this is but it's another side effect we have to contend with. Fortunately it is getting better with time so hopefully it will with you. Keep smiling.
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01-07-2016
01:35
Getting on fine, life back to 'normal' when a check up appointment comes round the corner and turns me inside out. Takes me several days to feel myself again and just wondered if this was normal?
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21-05-2016
09:43
Does any one know what would happen if we didn't take our hormone drugs regularly? I am on for 10 years and so does missing a few (by mistake) matter?
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28-02-2016
07:20
This is really useful. Yes I will speak to them. I am not that worried just interested. Sounds like everyone is different so who knows.
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24-02-2016
08:44
Every so often the wobbles return. I can't say I like them and I had hoped when my life returned to some sort of normality these would disappear but they haven't. There are no Moving Forward course in my area but I would like some advice on how to deal with this.
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19-02-2016
09:49
On hormone therapy and told very uncommon to get a reoccurrence while on it but is this true?
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18-02-2016
10:16
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I had my mastectomy and reconstruction privately but always felt like I as missing something. The NHS ladies I met seem to have more information and knew more than me. My care was second to none but I felt isolated and although my BCN was fine I just felt like another breast cancer woman and not an individual.
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16-01-2016
12:11
Hi Herewego, yes all ok. I only had one done as I have a reconstructed boob and apparently they don't mammogram them any more - much to my relief. I took some pain killers so not too bad. Mammogram definitely invented by a man though. Onwards and upwards.
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05-01-2016
12:27
Herewego, thanks for that and good luck tomorrow. Let me know how things go for you. Mine is next Thursday and I should find out on the day. Just been for a walk and I have a 11 year old so there are lots of distractions but it's like a bad sore that irritates every so often.
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05-01-2016
11:11
Hi, first mammogram since treatment. Any advice/ reassurance would be gratefully received. Trying to keep busy but brings everything back. Not nice!
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19-10-2015
08:19
I think I will have to speak to the surgeon again. There are options but it's a lot to take on and after the last year it's something I hadn't given much thought to until now. I have been made aware that several women don't have reconstruction - perhaps because they want to avoid such issues. Like 2 boobs though and I should be grateful the cancer has gone and this is just the finishing touches.
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17-10-2015
10:29
I had a DIEP flap and my plastic surgeon tells me my new boob probably won't get any smaller and having breast feed 3 children my native boob is looking rather sad. Don't get me wrong the new boob is great but I am quite conscious that it is bigger. I am through all the treatments and like you it is that confidence thing. Gosh we have been through so much and then we have this to think about.
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09-10-2015
01:10
Thanks for this. It would be an easier decision to make if my nearest and dearest felt the same. After breast cancer this should be a walk in the park.
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07-10-2015
09:26
Hi, I had my mastectomy/reconstruction in January. My breast care nurse says other patients have done a similar thing and it helps with self esteem and confidence. I had 3 ops before and my husband and mum think this is unnecessary surgery as I have done so well but I am not so sure.
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06-10-2015
08:41
i have had a mastectomy followed by immediate reconstruction. The boobs are not even and I am thinking about breast revision to the reconstruction boob. To every one it looks fine but to me they are uneven. Am I going to put myself through unnecessary surgery through vanity or do you think this is what anyone would want?
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22-05-2015
04:55
Is there anyone out there that uses this lovely facility? It's 6 months since I was diagnosed with BC and today was the first time I have met someone like me. To talk out issues that we have been through is great and so is there anyone else out there who goes to the Big C?
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21-05-2015
02:52
Yes ST1 I know exactly how you feel. Do as Anxious tells you and read that article by Dr Harvey. It really says it all. I had a mastectomy/reconstruction in January (now on Anastrozole) having been diagnosed in November and even now things are only gradually getting together. It doesn't happen over night and as I have been told take each day as it comes and be gentle on yourself. Everyone does expect you to be back to normal (what ever that is) but your mind is catching up with your body - or that is the way I look at it. I was fine through treatment and then I hit a great big wall and I felt rubbish. Slowly life is coming back but it won't be as before BC. I think about it every day but that will decrease as time goes on, I am reassured. What ever the experiences with BC has been the 'moving forward' can be as hard as the treatment but as each day goes by I do have less wobbles and try to do different things and make new friends and it all helps. Be kind to your self and little steps. SJ
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21-05-2015
01:44
Thanks Natalie, you sound like you have been through a lot and like you say we have all been through our own individual experiences. Unless you have had some form of cancer most people don't understand how after treatment we feel. Yes it's good to finish treatment ,but I think recovery from it takes a heck of a lot longer. I am trying to move on, do more things, making more friends and just getting on but there are always reminders just round the corner and how ever much I would like to forget it, it is difficult. It has only been 6 months since diagnosis so hopefully given time this will get better as long as I remember to take the pills.
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