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how to move on
Hi I don’t post often but I do come on when I need some info but I can’t find what I am looking for at the moment
I had lumpectomy in may followed by radition July/August
1- Just how long after radiation should it stop hurting?
i can’t find a comfy bra? Wires sit right on the edge of the lumpectomy scar and where I had minor peeling , so I am trying soft wire free but I still get pain from under where I had the worst radiation burn (not bad but enough to peel) and they don’t sit as nice as underwire ones and sports bras tend to look like One big mess or they have underwire. So every single day I think I am going to burn this bra when I get home and I can’t remember but did bras also feel funny?
2- can a blood test show cancer?
3- is there a test that show if tamoxifen is working? Like I get some hot flushes and my finger joints are a bit achy, I have put on a few kilos but I got lazy this year.
4- Am I cancer free now or is that after five years?
Why do some people get the genetic testing but not everyone? (Family history is just 1 aunt and 1 Cousin)
i have my first scan coming up in jan and don’t want to send the next month stressing over that but how do people not ? I just feel a bit on edge when I think about it and I know that’s not good so I try to not stress but I went to gp for script repeat and said should I have a blood test or something now ? So he wrote one for a bit of check of everything he said I don’t want to give you bad news again I laughed and said good I don’t want to get bad news again those first few weeks back in may I clocked up a lot of visits with him. He’s great but before all this I hardly ever went to the dr
In between all that and against breast care nurse advise I quit my job that I had for 14 years the week before radiation started and started a new one the week after radiation finished. So three months in trying to find my feet and where I fit in the new role. Head down bum up and all that. Everyone’s nice but I don’t love the role I don’t hate it either. Am I ever going to love something again? I don’t want the stress of a higher paid role, and I can car pool with husband most days so the lower pay is actually fairly well evened from that, we close for two weeks next Friday so I get a few weeks break which I think I really need. My direct boss is lovely but I feel a bit of tension from the girl that was doing the role. Like I am not as good as her in her view , I don’t feel like I need to be of course I do things different so could just be paroniid about that but she’s got this hair flicking thing that makes me cringe
I had lumpectomy in may followed by radition July/August
1- Just how long after radiation should it stop hurting?
i can’t find a comfy bra? Wires sit right on the edge of the lumpectomy scar and where I had minor peeling , so I am trying soft wire free but I still get pain from under where I had the worst radiation burn (not bad but enough to peel) and they don’t sit as nice as underwire ones and sports bras tend to look like One big mess or they have underwire. So every single day I think I am going to burn this bra when I get home and I can’t remember but did bras also feel funny?
2- can a blood test show cancer?
3- is there a test that show if tamoxifen is working? Like I get some hot flushes and my finger joints are a bit achy, I have put on a few kilos but I got lazy this year.
4- Am I cancer free now or is that after five years?
Why do some people get the genetic testing but not everyone? (Family history is just 1 aunt and 1 Cousin)
i have my first scan coming up in jan and don’t want to send the next month stressing over that but how do people not ? I just feel a bit on edge when I think about it and I know that’s not good so I try to not stress but I went to gp for script repeat and said should I have a blood test or something now ? So he wrote one for a bit of check of everything he said I don’t want to give you bad news again I laughed and said good I don’t want to get bad news again those first few weeks back in may I clocked up a lot of visits with him. He’s great but before all this I hardly ever went to the dr
In between all that and against breast care nurse advise I quit my job that I had for 14 years the week before radiation started and started a new one the week after radiation finished. So three months in trying to find my feet and where I fit in the new role. Head down bum up and all that. Everyone’s nice but I don’t love the role I don’t hate it either. Am I ever going to love something again? I don’t want the stress of a higher paid role, and I can car pool with husband most days so the lower pay is actually fairly well evened from that, we close for two weeks next Friday so I get a few weeks break which I think I really need. My direct boss is lovely but I feel a bit of tension from the girl that was doing the role. Like I am not as good as her in her view , I don’t feel like I need to be of course I do things different so could just be paroniid about that but she’s got this hair flicking thing that makes me cringe
31 Replies
- Wires. Pah. I don't miss them. Neither does my washing machine. Yes I know, I failed laundry 101.
- I had always worn underwire bras and continued to do so until I got fitted for a prosthesis. My supplier (Essentially Woman) talked me into at least trying a bra without and I have been wearing them ever since. And I am an E cup.
- I had always worn underwire bras, that was until I had a single mastectomy with immediate diep flap reconstruction. I thought no underwire meant I wouldnt be supported and I'm a DD How WRONG I was...I went and got fitted by a specialist in Melbourne Genevieve Gort OMG these bras, I have never ever felt so comfortable and supported and they are beautiful. Best money I ever spent, she is an ex nurse and deals with mastectomy/reconstruction so has prosthesis as well. Cannot recommend enough, for all the money you throw away on the likes of Berlei etc, I'll never go back lol. :) I even got a rebate on private health cover, if you are eligible she tells you how to. Amazing! M x
- Bra training love it must try that.
- I was able to wear wired bras about 12 months on. I had bilateral mastectomy and recon...need the wire for my side boob tbat I still have plus the shape is nice. Eventually I coukd tolerate. I started with a few hours at a time. Bra training...haha.
- And Berlie bras have 40% per cent off today. My facebooks knows I am looking for comfy bras. If I hadn’t spent so freaking much at Christmas. No I am comfortable with the Kmart ones I recently got. And looking at my underwire ones thinking do I just ditch them now ?
- Lol. That made me laugh @cranky_granny, raw hide, thanks for the laugh. I am off to blood test today didn’t want to do it before Christmas
- Oh dear the dreaded bra. I now have about 30 different bras that I have tried and failed with. Even resorted to removing wires etc
the wireless from target and Kmart have been the best so far but went back to get some more and what do you know none. I wear the ah bra at home and to bed. As there is no need to be perky at home. Due to the breast conserving surgery I girl is smaller and firmer than the other.
Every time I put a bra on I think of the old time songs Swing Low sweet chariot and head em up move em out from rawhide didn’t realise I was actually singing out loud. my foster child thinks I’m weird and I haven’t told him why I do it. 12 year old boy just wouldn’t understand.
Pity we can’t try before we buy on this one.
Good luck in your search @DearB
all your other question I have asked myself. Your not alone with those. just got through my first checkup since finishing thankfully everything came back clear. Didn’t have any blood test though just ct and ultrasound - Good to hear! Enjoy your break.
