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Scans
I'm having strong memories of my SNB sitting in the same waiting room this morning for a CT and bone scan. Unpleasant. I've avoided sitting in the same chair. Hardly anyone here today. That morning it was heaving with people. I trust this experience will be considerably less painful...
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Elevated Alk Phos Test
What do you do when you have routine blood tests for type 2 Diabetes and your Alk Phos Test comes back rising? My GP says this usually happens when there are issues with bones or liver ( especially having had breast cancer). I am having trouble coping with this news and keeping it to myself and waiting for test to be run…
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Post-active treatment fatigue
I treated myself to a sleeping pill last night, went to bed early (for me), didn't have to get up for anything this morning, and so had 10 hours sleep. Woke up three times, but nonetheless it was fab. At 1.30pm I went to an opening day of a new yoga centre that focuses on healing, and particularly healing from trauma. They…
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Bugger, bugger, bugger
Just 2 months ago I was feeling really fit and healthy and celebrating 6 years clear. Now not sure what is ahead. This week I have had a hip ultrasound and CT scan of lumbar spine to investigate increasing pain in lower back and pelvis. I have mild hip bursitis and mild disc compression but the CT scan also picked up…
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Just when you think you can't.....turns out you can!
Hi all,I haven't had a chance to be on here in a while and have been missing you lot :) I hope everyone is getting along ok no matter what stage of the rollercoaster you are at. So, what the heck have I been doing???? The problem Broken husband. Poor DH has been dealing with a crook shoulder for close to a couple of years…
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Just a Liz O’Riordan reminder esp for newbies
Liz O’Riordan is a British breast surgeon who developed breast cancer.She maintains a blog of her journey on her website and highly recommend a read.
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Fretting
It's the middle of the night and I'm having a quiet fret about rib pain. I woke up from my BMX & recon (27/4/18) with a sore lower left rib. I queried it with my PS when he deigned to speak to me but he dismissed it with a 'we did a lot of pulling and stretching in the area'. It's never gone away, coming and going at…
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when treatments have finished we sometimes forget we need time to let our body and emotions heal....
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Compression Sleeve
i just got a circular knit compression sleeve & it seems my upper arm is too fat & bulgy , even thought I was measured for it. Does anyone else have as much trouble with these things as much as me ??
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Post Treatment Letdown
I am just over a year from my initial diagnosis of breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy and node clearance a week after diagnosis, started 6 months of chemo about 4 weeks later, radiotherapy about 6 weeks after chemo and DIEP breast reconstruction 5 weeks after finishing radiation. I am now just over 10 weeks post surgery and…
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Hormone therapy trial in Adelaide
Breast Cancer Research Study In Adelaide Women who have frequent hot flushes/night sweats, also known as Vasomotor symptoms (VMS), caused by cancer medications are invited to participate in a study exploring a potential treatment to better treat these symptoms. Participants may experience a relief in hot flushes or night…
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Sleep
"We know that as many as 6 in 10 cancer survivors have problems of insomnia, which is up to three times the rate found in the general population." @SoldierCrab pointed out the Survivorship Center and I found this leaflet in their resources: Can-Sleep making night time sleep problems go away from the Peter MacCallum Cancer…
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First year scan results all good
This discussion was created from comments split from: Fretting.
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Menopause article
This is a long read about how the patriarchal world has framed menopause, and the author's response to that and her own menopause. I found it fascinating. https://longreads.com/2019/06/14/darcey-steinke-on-menopause/
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Anyone ever get sick of being their own science experiment?????
I really get the shits with overthinking every so often. Things that "before" you would never have thought twice about doing, eating or cleaning your house with now make you second guess a lot of things. Obviously I am not the only one considering the amount of conversations that go on here regarding the do's, don'ts and…