Post chemo / zoladex & letrazole side effects (hoping for some hope - please!)
Hello ladies, I finished 6 months of chemo (doxy then paclitaxcel) recently and then started on zoladex and letrazole last week. I am feeling VERY anxious all the time, very tired and flat - not like "myself" at all and really pretty non-functional. I can barely make a cup of tea and seem to just stare at walls when I'm home alone (often). I managed surgery and 6 months of chemo basically alone and unsupported and I coped. Now that I'm closer to family I seem to have really mentally crashed. Motivation is zero and the smallest things are an effort. I was more functional than this DURING chemo... Is this normal post chemo? A crash? Or is it the new hormone suppressants? Will it pass? Can anyone PLEASE offer me any words of wisdom or hope around recovering from chemo and the adjustment times to the hormone suppressants? Wishing you all so well. SDM.
Weeping Breast
Hello Ladies, I hoping someone can help me.. I finished my Radiation treatment 2 weeks ago today.. I knew to expect that the burns would probably get worse before they got better and that was fine, But I have now developed a horrible rash which has gone over the tio of my burns, all over my breast, and now spread to my other Breast. I saw my Breast care nurse yesterday and she is at a loss as to what is causeing it, we changed from Jelonet to something else and stopped the sorbeline (which I don't like anyway), to see if I was having a reaction to that... She spoke to my rad onco, he said to try Phenergon and just use solugel, and cortisone cream on the areas that are not broken. I had an appointment to go back tomorrow but after not sleeping much at all, and waking with my dressings, nightie, and sheets wet with fluid, then taking 2 phenergons at 6am, changing all my dressings, and finally falling a sleep, I woke again with dressins soaked.. I have spoken to my nurse she wants me to come back in this afternoon, but my Onco is in a meeting so have to wait. My nurse to photos yesterday and says that yes my breast is swollen also. I cannot stand anything touching me, apart from it weeping and soaking through everything, it feeles like little needles. I don't know if you can get lymphoedema in your breast can you? Has anyone expereinced anything like this? I am so tired from not sleeping and starting to feel very nauseas I hope this all makes sense