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Afraser said: My lymphoedema therapist would recommend massage but you need someone qualified to do it, a lymphoedema specialist, not just any masseuse. Also good to check with your surgeon before starting. Basically you want to very gently encourage dissipation without encouraging infection. A lot depends on location and duration too. It isn’t necessarily fast so if the seroma is relatively recent you might still want to give it some time to dissipate naturally. I had a very large seroma for a long time - apart from the risk of infection by draining, seromas are dab hands at refilling! Slow and steady is the ticket to get it to go and stay gone. Irritating though, mine would audibly slosh when I bent over! Mine is like an mango, it’s under my on my bust like a lemon and it’s now under my arm as well , when just standing it protrudes in front, and under my arm , is very painful. Let’s hope ours goes away by itself xx8Views0likes0CommentsRe: Can’t sleep all night, after chemo.
Louweezer said: hello! I hear you - While I was in hospital with the initial diagnosis (de novo stage 4 with spinal mets) I binge watching The Good Wife. Seriously and I know it’s weird but it kept my mind off the whole situation. I did a meditation course at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Sydney which was fantastic and also saw the psychologist there. Now it is a year later and at night I watch Grey’s Anatomy. Currently up to season 15!! I just go with the sleeplessness now and watch my iPad until I fall asleep. And again when I wake up. Also books on my iPad so it doesn’t wake my husband up with the light. I agree with you @Superzap we can do whatever we want and if it’s binge watching telly all night then so be it. See you in the wee small hours xxx Louweezer said: hello! I hear you - While I was in hospital with the initial diagnosis (de novo stage 4 with spinal mets) I binge watching The Good Wife. Seriously and I know it’s weird but it kept my mind off the whole situation. I did a meditation course at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Sydney which was fantastic and also saw the psychologist there. Now it is a year later and at night I watch Grey’s Anatomy. Currently up to season 15!! I just go with the sleeplessness now and watch my iPad until I fall asleep. And again when I wake up. Also books on my iPad so it doesn’t wake my husband up with the light. I agree with you @Superzap we can do whatever we want and if it’s binge watching telly all night then so be it. See you in the wee small hours xxx Louweezer , I decided no use in getting angry, it is what it is, just go with the flow, and hope with more sleep ,xxx3Views0likes0CommentsRe: Can’t sleep all night, after chemo.
Shellshocked2018_ said: Hi , yes I can say I think we have all been there. I commenced a mindfulness course and started meditation. During the hardest times I saw my GP and was prescribed a sleeping tablet that would at least give me 4 hours of good quality sleep. I found that I could cope with more once I had a good night sleep, and your body uses so much energy to heal, so sleep is very important. Sending hugs x27Views0likes0CommentsRe: Can’t sleep all night, after chemo.
Blossom1961 said: Hi @Superzap Sleepless nights are part of the course I am sorry to say. I finished what they call ‘active’ chemo in Oct 2018, continued with Herceptin until August 2019. I still have many sleepless nights. Once a week I take a restavit which turns my brain off so I can get to sleep. Lack of sleep isn’t really helpful when your body wants to heal. Try mindfulness, aromatherapy or whatever you think might work for you. My psych told me to do the abc game as it works to turn off your brain from other things but it just frustrated me and kept me awake for longer. Sending big hugs. Send big hugs back to you too. Thank you so much for your ideas, I will try . Wish you all the best.64Views0likes0CommentsRe: Can’t sleep all night, after chemo.
AllyJay said: Are frogs waterproof? Do bears poop in the woods? Sorry about that, but sometimes black humour is all that stops me from just pulling the plug. Sleep for me, is something that other mythological creatures do, but not me. I do retire to a horizontal padded sleeping platform, that I believe some call a bed. I call it my padded torture rack. But seriously, after forty years of marriage, my husband and I now sleep in different rooms. When I finally decide that tonight is another of those rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat nights, I just put on the light and either read or knit. If I feel any hope of drowsiness coming on, I try again. I think that for me it's a mixture of past bad insomnia, along with current stress and discomfort. Fortunately my GP (new GP) is very compassionate and prescribes me sleeping tablets...three different kinds which we rotate as I become accustomed to them. Sometimes we just have to do and say what we want to keep us sane. I use to care what people say and think about me. Now it’s whatever keeps me sane. My health my sanity. I do the the same, my husband and I sleep in seperate rooms. I get up so much, maybe up to 10 or more time a night . I get very agitated , so watch a movie, go on you tube. Wish you all the best.14Views0likes0CommentsRe: Can’t sleep all night, after chemo.
Katy_Sodapop said: Superzap said: Hi does anyone have problems sleeping all night, since I started chemo. 2 down 2 to go. Ugh it's the pits right! Are you on steroids also? I feel like they were my cause of sleepless nights during chemo. I just made sure I slept when I could, 6am - 9am was my time but sometimes nothing works. I used an over the counter short term medication for sleep but only with my oncologist approval. You're half way there! Good job Oh yes steroids, yes I think I need to check them out, thank you so much, hope you are good.10Views0likes0Comments
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