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THERMAL DISCOMFORT
Hello
First time on line, so hello to everyone.
I've had breast cancer diagnosed over last Christmas, had lumpectomy with removal of four lymp nodes, I was lucky Stage two, just completed radiation treatment. Half way through I became really hot. I would wipe the sweat of my forehead.
I'm experiencing extreme thermal discomfort, it's like I'm standing next to a bonfire with searing heat oozing out of my body equally throughout the body, then a couple of minutes later I'm cold. Like sunstroke, when the fan blows over you. So I'm not sleeping as the bedsheet is too cold then I put the blanket over me then have to remove it.
The experts say it is not to do with the radiation. I don't believe it, has anyone else experienced this and will it go away and what can I do?
Thankyou...
First time on line, so hello to everyone.
I've had breast cancer diagnosed over last Christmas, had lumpectomy with removal of four lymp nodes, I was lucky Stage two, just completed radiation treatment. Half way through I became really hot. I would wipe the sweat of my forehead.
I'm experiencing extreme thermal discomfort, it's like I'm standing next to a bonfire with searing heat oozing out of my body equally throughout the body, then a couple of minutes later I'm cold. Like sunstroke, when the fan blows over you. So I'm not sleeping as the bedsheet is too cold then I put the blanket over me then have to remove it.
The experts say it is not to do with the radiation. I don't believe it, has anyone else experienced this and will it go away and what can I do?
Thankyou...
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- Hi you are describing me, I have terrible hot flushes everyone else is saying how cold they are and I'm boiling. I have just gone back to see my oncologist and she has decided to change me from arimidex to femera. The hope is I tolerate it better. I'm not doing great have also been on Tamoxafin, she has also referred me to the menopause clinic.
I can't win bc just keeps giving, good luck - Yes maybe menopause. ..are you on tamoxifen or an aramatose inhibitor such as letrozole? These things can cause hot flushes which sound like what you are describing. I need to be able to hang a leg out of bed...then can leave the blanket on so I don't get chilled.
- Hello
Any chance you could of started menopause? Sounds so like hot flushes!!
Pam
