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A Little Embarrassing
Hi I'm Matt
A male with breast cancer, I came across this site a couple of days ago, I've been reading a lot of blogs and has been very helpful wish I found this before I started my treatment :-),
not sure what treatment I'm on but must be a common one, I do 4 at 3 week intervals with my 4th one this Friday then change over to weekly for 12 weeks, then I go in for surgery and if all good start my radiation
so far so good on side effects not much really, lost my hair about 2-3 weeks after first treatment, a bit of constipation and sleepless nights, just last week I noticed two of my toes, one on each foot right next to the big toe went purple in colour at the top, the left toe nail changed colour to purple and the right toe nail changed to a hazy white, will I lose them,
just touching base for today and introducing myself, it is a little hard for me to talk about this but am getting better
A male with breast cancer, I came across this site a couple of days ago, I've been reading a lot of blogs and has been very helpful wish I found this before I started my treatment :-),
not sure what treatment I'm on but must be a common one, I do 4 at 3 week intervals with my 4th one this Friday then change over to weekly for 12 weeks, then I go in for surgery and if all good start my radiation
so far so good on side effects not much really, lost my hair about 2-3 weeks after first treatment, a bit of constipation and sleepless nights, just last week I noticed two of my toes, one on each foot right next to the big toe went purple in colour at the top, the left toe nail changed colour to purple and the right toe nail changed to a hazy white, will I lose them,
just touching base for today and introducing myself, it is a little hard for me to talk about this but am getting better
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- Insight into another world!
- @Joannie. Here's a sign in a Toowoomba public toilet.
- Hi again @traveltext sorry my suggestion wasn’t clear. What I meant was not to specify the actual % as that can change overtime. Might try to ask for some of this to go on Field of Dreams ? post as some is unrelated to welcoming Matt.
- OK, Matt, you have the full range of people to ask questions of. Good luck with your treatment and do come back and let us know how you are going at the various stages.
- Hey if you want to have this discussion you should set up a separate post so that it can become a post of interest for the hierarchy as at present this started out as Matt telling us he's been diagnosed and embarrassed by it!
- Heartily agree @Sister and @AllyJay.
- Nicely put AllyJay.
