Hello, can anybody help me?
I was diagnosed in January 2020 with stage 2 invasive mixed ductal and lobular breast cancer in my right breast, following a lumpectomy and lymph node removal back in February 2020 and Radiotherapy in April 2020, I commenced taking Tamoxifen in May. I thought I was doing okay and coping with the hot flushes and odd headache now and then which wasn't too bad and learning to carry a hand held fan around helped, however over the last 2-3 weeks, the hot flushes are getting worse! throughout the day and night I get them and I feel like I’m going to explode like a volcano with red hot hands, feet, face and boiling inside and with broken sleep now every night and a banging headache every morning it’s starting to get me down and I have no idea who to turn to? My local GP seems uninterested, I never hear from anybody at the breast clinic (and too be honest never did throughout my treatments which was surprising after seeing adverts saying how much people care and support you) and the last checkup telephone call I received from an oncologist was in September after my radiotherapy treatment finished in May. I work full time and start the day dragging myself to the shower at 6am with blurred vision and head banging and if I’m lucky by 4pm my head starts to ease but if I’m unlucky (most days now) by 4pm I am falling asleep and feel dizzy and dog tired. Is this really my life for the next 4 years?
