I think they will make sure both boobs match eventually. This is what I'm gonna ask the surgeon next month. They told me they might take tissue from my good boob and put in my bad boob to bring them to a similar size. Guess I wont know for sure til then.

With hair loss it depends on the chemo, but I think any chemo for breast cancer (especially FEC-t chemo) you will lose it really quick. I had the option of a cold cap but my oncologist basically said there was no point...it would prolong each session and it probably wouldn't work so I didnt bother. My hair fell out rapidly a couple of weeks after my first chemo and by far was the hardest bit of treatment emotionally...but still not top bad. Jamie (my partner) and me ended up shaving our heads together when it first started falling out and managed to raise 900 for Macmillan for brave the shave. You'll be surprised how quick it grows back.... mine started growing back quite a bit before surgery. Now I have a really thick (unmanageable) head of hair. Dont panic too much about hair loss.....just keep thinking the medicine is saving your life ;-) xx

Thank you- you are very positive and it’s nice to know similar stories as helps keep me positive too so thank you for sharing - that’s great you used it to raise money for charity - well done ️ I’m so scared for chemo but you are right, it’s life saving and hair grows back - lives don’t.

thanks again darl and well done for being so brave and positive through everything xx

Hiya

sorry for taking so long to reply.. I went back to work to try  and distract myself and it’s made me so tired!! ( which is making me worry even more the cancer is spreading)!!

I have dcis ( in the ducts) but also some of it that has become invasive :( which is the nasty bit that spreads.. I think you said yours was all in the ducts? Did you find a lump? If you did that’s amazing as from what they’ve said to me the bit I can feel is the invasive bit (which to me now feels bigger than when I first went to the gp)..

Its all getting a bit on top of me to be honest. :( it seems like an unsafe amount of time has passed since I was diagnosed on the 20th March.  I have another apt for the results of the latest biopsy tomorrow so maybe that’s also why I am feeling crap!

how are you doing now? Hopefully healing well and starting to get more feeling back under your arm :)

xxx

Hi,

Hope your appointment goes well today. I remember having my football boob drained during an infection. 4 x 500ml syringes full of yellow fluid was taken out. Gulp! Thankfully it didnt refill, just made my skin underneath the boob very thin. 

My cancer was also invasive (ductal)....may have already said that in previous posts and was referred to on letters as advanced as it was a Grade 3 tumor. Looks scary when you see it written down but is just a term they use for the size. I had oncologist yesterday who examined me (good boob and reconstructed one) and said everything seems fine. Phew. Have to go back in 3 months then after the baby is born as boobs can change so much in pregnancy. If everything is fine then I will go onto the triggered patients list which means I dont need regular check ups apart from the mammograms on the good boob....just if I get any sinister symptoms I will be fast tracked through the system. 

It really is a scary time and I had many meltdowns throughout the process but you'll be suprised how quick treatment is done and dusted and hopefully you ladies like me can look back and say "well that was brutal, but i did it"!! :D xx

Horrible news for me today >:) my cancer has come back her2 positive.. which means chemo for sure. I feel like it’s one bit of bad news after another [@Dizzle82]‍ Were you her2 positive? Is the chemo awful? And the herceptin? Xx

Mastectomy scheduled for May 7th I feel numb x

Hi......sorry to hear how you are feeling but dont take being her2+ as a terrible thing. It means they can use targeted therapies to keep it at bay once the chemo kills it off...targeted being the herceptin. Sometimes it's better to have a type which is hormone receptor positive than one of the most dangerous triple negative forms that are harder to treat. I was her2+ and googled too much....dont do that....will drive you mad. 

Chemo isn't nice but its doable and in most cases does its job. I had a lot of infections after each bout but the times inbetweeners I pretty much led a normal life...even having a few pub crawls during the process. Sometimes I think its mind over matter and if you tell yourself you're gonna feel rubbish you more than likely will. Just keep positive. Easier said I know but it really does help. The herceptin I found fine. Only side effect being the worst itchy skin I've ever had but apparently that rare.

You will be fine and smash through your treatment journey I'm sure. It will fly by. Just give yourself time to process the news then come out all guns blazing. You can do this :-) xx

They seem to be pressing on with surgery first which doesn’t seem to be the standard? In most of the stuff I’ve read about it’s chemo and some herceptin first... my head is spinning x

Mine was surgery first too Hun - I had no treatment at all before my surgery last Wednesday and I find out when my treatment etc starts on Thursday :)

i think they do chemo first if the rumour is abit smaller etc and will benefit but I think if it’s bigger they are keen to get it out first 

your head will be spinning - it’s normal as this is all new to us - but try and just take each day as it comes and don’t think too far ahead - get one thing out the way at a time and just try and focus on the here and now - I know it’s tough but we will come out the other side xx

Eee that’s a lot of fluid - I only got about 300ml out today and feel so much better for it - sore though but deff relieved to have it out.

Im so pleased your oncologist says all seems good - means you can hopefully enjoy your pregnancy and when baby comes along and not have to worry about cancer 

it’s such a lovely happy ending for you - so so happy for you xx