Breast Cancer Now Forum

Thanks everyone, we'll try and get some vit B6 tabs and I'll suggest bathing them in cool water. Good luck to you all with your treatments xxxxx ... View more

Hello again lovely ladies. I 'chatted' to you in here last year when my husband started taking Cape for his Bowel cancer mets. I'm a BC survivor, hence being in this forum! I hope you don't mind me gatecrashing again! My poor hubby is really suffering with his feet, he says it feels like walking on hot coals. He's just had an extra week off but should start again today and is not keen. He uses Aveeno cream and Vaseline, and a heel balm. Any other tips on what he can do? I try and be patient but he is pretty fed up and therefore grumpy about it!!! Wishing you all a lovely bank holiday, hope the weathers better than here in Cornwall! Xxxx ... View more

That's such good news Fidonald, you must be so relieved. So are you not having chemo at all now?  ... View more

Hi Ladies, I've just started reading through this thread with interest, but as there's 109 pages it may take me some time!! I'm gatecrashing really, but hope you may still help me. I was diagnosed with lobular BC last year (no spread)  had Mx then FecT chemo and so far I am doing OK. However, my husband has Bowel cancer with spread to his liver and lungs and has recently been but on Capecitabine - hence my post on here. I guess there is probably a forum for bowel cancer sufferers somewhere but this one has been so helpful to me I thought id try here first. He is coping pretty well with the drugs so far, first time he had ulcers on his lips so they delayed by a week and reduced the dose. This time he has got a blotchy red rash on the back of his hands and arms which he says is itchy and the bottom of his feet feel 'bruised' when he walks. I keep reminding (ie nagging) him to moisterise his hands/feet/whole body well but can anyone recommend anything for the itching? He has just finished the second 14 days of tablets and we go back to the oncology unit next Monday but he is not keen on a further reduction or delay in treatment.  Hoping everyone is having a good week without too many side effects xxx  ... View more

Yep, just to agree with everyone else's comments,without this board I'm not sure I'd have got through these last few months. I was diagnosed at the beginning of June and have my last chemo later today. Yippee! Haven't got to have radio so I'm nearly there. Lots of love to all of you who are still going through the various treatments, you can do it!! Chris xx ps I also logged on to see if Delly had been on, good to hear from Tina that she is ok and yes it is 4:30 am, bleeping steroids!!  ... View more

You'll probably cling onto your eyebrows and lashes for some time yet. Mine are only  just thinning now after T2. I keep hearing good things about Wonderbrow, going to investigate next time in in Boots. Xx ... View more

Hi Amanda, I just saw your question to MadAnge re FEC and T and thought I'd put in my tuppenceworth. TBH it's difficult to say which is worse, the SEs are quite different. I suffered with sickness and nausea with all 3 FECS I was on Emend by no 3 but still had nausea, so the good thing about T is that ther has been very little nausea, just a little bit of queasiness and no sickness. (I've had 2 Ts so far). The downsides of T though are the mega doses of steroids which make sleeping tricky, the bone/joint aches and the diarrhoea. But I'm more prepared this time and will start taking the codeine and loperamide more quickly. Hope this helps but everyone is so different and we all seem to suffer in different ways ! Good luck xxxx Chris X  ... View more

If don't post on here very often, though still keep up to date with it every few days. I just wanted to congratulate you Delly, you seem to be turning your life back around. Well done! And I'd also like to reassure Tina - our 'journeys' (don't like the term but it does describe it) have been so similar, I'm just further down the road. Had my fourth chemo last Friday, the first T dosage, and it's not so bad, we CAN do this.In between cycle 3 and 4 it was only the first 3 days I didn't feel so great apart from that I felt 'normal' and had some good times with family and friends.  Enjoy your few days at work - they will do you the power of good. Chris x ... View more

Oh, and I forgot to say, for those  having mastectomies without immediate reconstruction , single or bilateral, if you are on Facebook, look up 'Flat Friends' an amazing brilliant supportive group of ladies that have decided against reconstruction and love being flat and fabulous.  ... View more

Morning all. I'm not a regular poster on this thread but read it often and emphathise and sympathise with everything everyone is going though. I'm half way through my FEC T chemo and I can't lie and say it's easy, but the good bit is that all that early uncertainty and waiting has gone. You know how many sessions you'll have, you are given the appointments in advance and mentally you try your best to prepare for it. FECT seems to be th most common chemo given to us ladies on 3 week cycles, though some have different drugs and some have it weekly. I think some of it depends on your Heath and other conditions you may suffer from. I have found the first week is not pleasant, I have suffered sickness and nausea (more in that in a minute) but after that it's ok, you gradually get better and stronger, then it all starts again. I'm day 9 now and went to see Spectre yesterday and am going to a Christmas fare with a friend this morning. Normal life can and does resume. Amanda, and those worri d about sickness th Magic drug to request is Emend. It is expensive apparantky and they don't just prescribe it willy nillu, but once you get it, it does stop the sickness. Sorry for rambling, I just want d to try and reassure those of you that ar starting to dread the next step. You CAN do it. Good luck all. Chris xxxx ... View more