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Joint pain after treatment has ended
Hi lovely ladies, I'm just wondering if any of you have experienced joint/bone pain once your treatment has ended? I finished Chemo 6 months ago and at night experience pain particularly in my hips and down one leg. Its not there all the time. I am taking Exemestane tablets which I am unsure if they are the cause. Thank…
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Coping with the 'new normal'
Hi all I'm grateful that I've gotten through invasive treatment and life has kind of gone back to normal, although I'm still working out my 'new normal'. I finished rads 6 week ago and have been on Tamoxifen for the last couple of weeks. I've been very tired, which I know could be an after effect of rads, and am also very…
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How can psychologists help?
Hey everyone, I am new to this community but I am eager to learn more. I am a provisional psychologist in Melbourne interested in helping people cope with the emotional difficulties that come with cancer. Whilst I am an outsider (I have not personally had cancer), I feel that the psychological side of cancer can often be…
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The Funny Things
I thought we should have a thread about things that are so absurd about survivorship they shoot right beyond being depressing and just make us laugh, and of course for the things that are just FUNNY. It might be something legitimately hilarious, maybe something upsetting that you've started laughing at for one reason or…
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The wheels fell off my rollercoaster.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a bout of the blues but the last week sure sorted that out. The worst one since a month after starting Tamoxifen round 1. I’ve been coasting along quite well for a number of months. My head has been in a good space (or so I thought). The aches and pains are easing off a bit. Sleep is not…
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How to prioritise self care?
So self care is the mantra in survivorship right? I need to do gym three times a week for the weight bearing exercises to stave off the bone damage of Letrozole. Haven't managed to work that into my schedule since early last December. On the days when I'm not at the gym I have to walk because minimum of 30 mins a day…
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The gift that keeps giving 😞
http://liz.oriordan.co.uk/CancerBlog/moving-on/?post=one-door-closes I just received this blog post in my email What Liz has to say is all so true and so devastating. I've been navigating loss of job & identity since before my BC diagnosis nearly 4 years ago, but bc continued to take. I developed lymphoedema very soon…
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Food for thought
A neighbor has seen me walking and asked if she could join me in the mornings and as she is very nice person I agreed. Mary is a beautiful slim blonde who looks about 50 and is in fact 70.She runs a sheep farm in the country with her husband and an Airbnb near where I live in the Hills.She also has MS and has had it since…
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My new beach life
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Peter Mac book
I found a booklet in my hospital cancer centre library. I wish I had read it just before I finished active treatment. Obviously, some doctors do understand the horrors of after treatment. ‘Life After Cancer, A guide for cancer survivors’ Brought out by Peter Mac and The Cancer Council Victoria.
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Thank you
Thank you @Marianne_BCNA for getting onto this and getting it up so quickly. And thank you @InkPetal for being the spark. Legends!
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Here Comes the Sun
This is an article I read back not long after I was diagnosed.
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AUSTRALIAN CANCER SURVIVORSHIP CENTRE
https://www.petermac.org/services/support-services/australian-cancer-survivorship-centre