have just today been diagnosed with breast cancer and am booked in for a lumpectomy on 3rd jan.....any wise words would be welcome.....x
have just today been diagnosed with breast cancer and am booked in for a lumpectomy on 3rd jan.....any wise words would be welcome.....x
Thanks Irene. I see the consultant tomorrow so am hoping for the date I start radiotherapy. I just want to get on with it! X
Hi M.
I know the days go soooo slowly when you are waiting! Thinking of you next week. I hope to get dates
for radiotherapy tomorrow. I have been taking Letrozole for nearly 3 weeks now with minimum SE. I know it can take a while for them to kick in! Xx
I had my op on 3rd January last year and started my radiotherapy on 9th Feb. They have a timescale and don't like it to go over a certain time before it starts x
That's good to know, thankyou. I just want to get on with it now! X did you feel very tired? I am working so wondered if I will be shattered! X
I only felt a little more tired towards the end of treatment Harvell and that only took a couple of weeks to go. I'm retired so work wasn't an issue. Maybe someone else will chip in on that??
Even though my hubby came with me every day I drove the 40 mile round trip and felt perfectly ok to do that. I was able to carry on my life as normal.
The sessions are very quick and its exactly the same procedure every day. If you do work the hospital I attended helped you plan your sessions to fit in with that.
Hope you find out soon - Irene x
Hi
thankyou, it all sounds doeable! It went ok today and hopefully treatment will start within a few weeks. I am feeling positive! I am going to have a fight on my hands getting the same brand of meds tho! That's another story.....
C x
Marlyn
i somehow have missed your posts and have just seen your good news! Yay! So pleased for you and I know exactly how you feel!
C x
The relief is wonderful! Still don't know if I need chemo, the oncologist will decide that but unsure as to why I would need it as no lymph node involved and clear margins.....do you know what meds you will e on, I will be on analetrazole ( wrong spelling). Side effects look pretty yuk! Xxx
I was diagnosed on Xmas Eve with cancer in my right breast and pre cancer cells in my left I have been for my pre op assessment just waiting for word to go in. But now I am getting panicky thinking of all the growth that could be going on !!! Also to get 21 days radiotherapy can anyone tell me what like the side effects are please . TIA
I was diagnosed on the 17 th Dec, lumpectomy on jan 3 rd.....what surgery are you having ? Every ache and pain I had I thought was the cancer spreading! Xxx