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Alcohol did you give up?
Hi everyone,
Tomorrow I meet my specialists and get my formal diagnosis. At this stage all I know is I have BC with lymph node involvement.
Anyway I'm a every night red wine drinker and I am getting a lot of messages from certain people to say I must give it up now.
At the moment my stress levels are too high to contemplate giving up.
I may reconsider after tomorrow.
My question is did you give up alcohol when you were diagnosed?
If so what are your thoughts?
Tomorrow I meet my specialists and get my formal diagnosis. At this stage all I know is I have BC with lymph node involvement.
Anyway I'm a every night red wine drinker and I am getting a lot of messages from certain people to say I must give it up now.
At the moment my stress levels are too high to contemplate giving up.
I may reconsider after tomorrow.
My question is did you give up alcohol when you were diagnosed?
If so what are your thoughts?
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- I've decided just to celebrate family birthdays and Christmas with a glass of bubbles and I trick myself other times by having soda water in a champagne flute! Works for me!
- But Zoffiel I can lose 20kgs in 1 week, look 40 years younger and get a new job that earns 1/2 mill while I a sitting at home ... and there is pretty pictures ...
- Haha you girls crack me up
- We told you not to google....
- News Flash ... to completely eradicate your risk of cancer, 0%, absolutely no risk is simple. Just stop breathing ... Sorry ladies just having a quick read of the net news crap and wait for it - hair dye increases your risk of breast cancer.....
- Hey di I read it right?? I could of let myself go between 18-30 yrs (while I was breastfeeding) and it would of reduced my risk!! Good one Zoffiel, like where your going. Personally my obsession is with plastics - got rid of 95% of my use then I read that the cheap glass (or maybe all) is manufactured in China with maybe some doubtful ingredients - Ya just can't win. That's when I gave up and decided to do what I feel comfortable with!!
- Hey did I read it right?? I could of let myself go between 18-30yrs and got fat - while I was breastfeeding and this would of reduced my risk. They could of told me then!!! And good one Zoffiel like where your going...
- I guess I'm on the side of doing what's right for you. If you enjoy a drink or 2 and it's part of your life do it. I do enjoy a glass or 3 of wine and while going through Chemo and Rads chose not to drink very much at all, it was purely a choice I made for me based on trying to do the best I could to help my body get through the treatment ( and being scared of my oncologist who's a teetotaller ;) ) . There were days though during that time where I did indulge in a glass and I enjoyed every last drop! I don't think there's ever an easy answer to this as people who have never had a drink still get breast cancer.
- All good @Zoffiel I will just do the exercise( vigorous not a fave word) and take 10%. But it may be a case of that old saying “ There are lies , damned lies and then there are statistics.”
