Hello everyone, had a mastectomy and ancillary lobe removal which was fine, but the surgeon found the cancer had spread further than she had expected from the scans, and some lymph nodes under my collar bone are unable to be removed by surgery. The oncologist wants to start an aggressive course of chemotherapy to give me the best chance, but I am more frightened by the chemo than the cancer! At the moment I am only agreeing to ribocyclib  as it is taken in tablet form, as I am terrified of needles and tubes.  

I also have parkinsonism, seeing my neurologist this week to try to find the prognosis for this, because if this is life limiting I don't want to waste what time I have left feeling ill. At the moment I feel perfectly fine.

Has anyone else with a severe needle phobia got through chemotherapy?