I was diagnosed with Cancer in March and although we knew it was Cancer its still a shock to be told it. I have had 2 chemo cycles now and have my 3rd at the end of the month. I would love to chat about the chemo side affects to anyone..
Hello everybody, may I join you and introduce myself? I opened a new thread on this subject the other day in the "introduce yourself" section, but I really wanted to get onto this site. I am 67 yo and live in Essex, UK and have recently been diagnosed as having tumours on both ovaries, plus some areas on the omentum and outer bowel. However, my hospital MDT wants to ascertain whether my ovaries are the primary site or secondary to breast ca I had 15 years ago before planning my treatment, so I've just had a biopsy and await results on 22nd Feb. I found your site about a month ago and was both heartened by all your posts, and at the same time scared - not of the treatment particularly but the outcome. Some days I feel that I won't get through this, other days I think "No, you won't get me, you (expletive deleted!)"
The last post on your site was 28th Dec, I have been checking, so I hope you are all getting along OK
I have just read your post and I am sorry your going through this yet again. I have not been on the site for a while and was only thinking yesterday I must post something.
Please don't let some of our stories scare you as we are all in the same boat and we all manage to get through the treatments. I feel for you having to wait until the 22nd. You are probably thinking constantly about the results and it seems unfair that we have to wait that long. Whatever the outcome though there is always treatment you can have.
Hopefully the other ladies will come back on site now we have a new lady.
I have not heard of that one. I hope you manage to get through it.. I am finding it tough going and have only had 5 cycles but my veins are so poor now that I dread the canula going in and they always have about 3 attempts, so I am like a pin cushion.
I am now on my second lot. The first lot have me Irinotecan for 17 and Avastin for 14 sessions...It was quite a lot for my poor little body to take so I had to have a break for 3 months....and now on Number 2...A bit of a pain as it didn't give me this much trouble the first set so muct still be in my system.
Oh well we will see how it goes and yes I know all about the pin cushion scenario!!
