👣 CanSTEP Study – Share Your Views! (Sydney/Brisbane/Adelaide Residents)
Are you a cancer survivor living with tingling, numbness, or burning pain after chemotherapy? Researchers want to know: Can fun stepping games help reduce these symptoms and improve your quality of life? Join the CanSTEP study – a 6-month research project by Prince of Wales Hospital and Neuroscience Research Australia. What’s involved? ✔ Home-based step training using a wireless mat (just 80–120 mins/week for 16 weeks) ✔ Questionnaires & assessments on symptoms, balance, and cognition ✔ Random allocation to training or usual care (with option for training later) Who can join? ✅ 18+ years old ✅ Living in Sydney, Brisbane, or Adelaide ✅ Finished chemo at least 6 months ago ✅ Experiencing neuropathy symptoms affecting walking ✅ Able to walk 10m without an aid ✅ Have internet access 📞 Call +61 433 260 799 📧 Email braden.mitchell@flinders.edu.au or katia.ferrar@flinders.edu.au Or contact A/Prof Jasmine Menant at (02) 9399 1267 or j.menant@neura.edu.au Approved by South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Human Research Ethics Committee. 👉 Interested? Comment below or reach out today!
PMS during menopause 😳
I never thought I’d say this, but I’m really looking forward to my Zoladex injection tomorrow. Why? So it will continue to keep me in artificial menopause, so these PMS symptoms can bugger off again!! 🤨. So yeah, PMS and artificial menopause, both at the same time. Who woulda thunk it. So basically, I get 3 weeks of feeling wonderful, and then one week of feeling moody, overly sensitive, angry, sore, tired etc, just like I did when I was not in artificial menopause. Had to check with the McGrath nurse to make sure I wasn’t going insane, and yeah, Zoladex tends to start wearing off towards the end of the 28 days, before the next injection is due. Feeling these PMS symptoms again, after having felt the freedom of not having them, made me realise just how tough they were, and how hard it was going through all that every single month for almost 30 years!! Not to mention the actual period, which lasted 7 days and was heavy. My goodness, what a freaking Wonder Woman I am!!! All that, while working and life in general!! And then for men to have the audacity to say to me ‘why are you so angry??’ Knowing full well exactly why 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️. On top of that, my right hand is numb and weak thanks to Letrozole. I can’t feel anything with it. Can barely open a jar. Joints and body aches when getting up, takes a minute to be able to walk and move. All I gotta say is, to all of us incredibly strong and wonderful women, is: I am strong, I am invincible (although don’t always feel like it), I am woman! 👊🏻💪🏻🦸♀️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. It’s slowly becoming my new favourite song. Love to all ♥️ M Xxx
