Struggling through Chemo
Hi all, My nurse has just introduced me to this group. I’m hoping to connect and share my story and hopefully somehow feel better. After being diagnosed and a short time later having a mastectomy a...
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Hi @Coastiejas, all good here. I'm about a month into my hormone treatment and feeling ok, no side effects other than maybe a bit tired from time to time, and I'm actually sleeping better, which is weird for someone who is a historically light sleeper with bouts of insomnia all my adult life. I'm still sweating (chemo caused hot flushes which I'm still getting, but no worse), but I now have no body odour under my arms 🤷♀️ another strange side effect I'm going to take as a win.
I start abemaciclib on Friday, which I'm a little anxious about as it of course comes with a list of side effects as long as my arm, and diarrhoea seems to be most common and top of the list 🙄 I've been told this repeatedly which makes me think it's very common, hopefully I'll avoid that one.
Other than that I'm keeping up my exercise and stretching and feeling pretty good. My hair has grown back mainly brown with a few greys and I now look like I have a very short pixi cut. Eyebrows and eyelashes are almost back to normal.
Hope everyone else is doing ok.
Katie
I start abemaciclib on Friday, which I'm a little anxious about as it of course comes with a list of side effects as long as my arm, and diarrhoea seems to be most common and top of the list 🙄 I've been told this repeatedly which makes me think it's very common, hopefully I'll avoid that one.
Other than that I'm keeping up my exercise and stretching and feeling pretty good. My hair has grown back mainly brown with a few greys and I now look like I have a very short pixi cut. Eyebrows and eyelashes are almost back to normal.
Hope everyone else is doing ok.
Katie