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Hi, Got Breast Cancer May 11, did 4 AC and 3 Taxol since. Didn't do 4 taxol due to side effects. Good News, on Breast Lump it went way down and chemo worked. Finished Chemo 6 weeks ago. Still suffering. Pain in feet peripheral neuropathy, pain in breast and under arm and stiff all over. Feel so weak and only get 4-5 sleep with sleeping tablet. Due surgery next Fri week and dreading it. Have people found chemo effects to last so long. bear12 E xxx

...and I start Radiotherapy on Monday. It's been hanging over me for 2 months now and am relieved at last to be starting...30 sessions...so will be going right up to Dec 23rd. Hopefully there won't be any machine breakdowns or snow! Anyone have any tips please? Hope you are all doing well on your journey. Micheline.

My granddad was diagnosed with cancer, earlier this year. (prostate and then bone) After getting injections in the stomach every month ( not sure what the drugs are) he really started to pick up and look like his normal self. Over the last 2 months he has started to loose weight again and spend more time in bed again. After his injections he seems to turn very nasty. My nan is his full time carer and she gets the brunt of his nastiness, saying she's a terrible carer and he'd be better off without her, which has absolutely devastated my nan, (because she is and always has even before he was ill, waited on my granddad hand and foot) and she has broken down a couple of times. My nan has noticed a pattern of just after his monthly injections that he turns nasty...is this a normal reaction to the drugs? He is also hallucinating abit, seeing people who aren't there. This is the first close relative who I have know to have cancer so its a shock, especially with someone who has never been seriously ill in their whole life.....

My Mum passed away in 1981, so thirty years ago last October. It seems to be on my mind alot for the last few months. Most likely because I am now older than she ever was, she was 33 years old when she passed and my son is nearly the age I was when she died (3) and I had a little girl a few months ago. I can honestly say Ive grieved for her alot and feel robbed of her on all happy and sad occasions in my life. Ive no siblings and feel Im the only person who still actively misses her. I just wish she was here to meet my babies RIP Mum

Hi anyone who is wondering about this- Thought I'd post quickly on this topic, as I'd started asking about it a few months ago, before starting chemo. Anyhow, and we don't all have choices in this regard, I recognise, but I kept up my work- a bit. And it helped enormously. I went on sick leave from my full time job as that involved too much travelling, but I kept up, sort of, my self employed practice. To be honest, my super-employee fronted for me, and did everything, but it kept me sane to try to work. I sort of followed her into meetings and pretended to understand what I was doing, and typed aimlessly a lot of the time, but other times I did make good and big decisions and presentations. I really felt much better for the sense of doing something worthwhile and not being a full-time invalid. However, I did have help, I did have a choice, and I also slept and rested a lot. There were days when I was in a chemo daze and towards the end my cognition and memory definitely deteriorated (that was a bit frightening), but its grand again now, seven weeks after final chemo. I was on the pretty aggressive TAC, which though horrid and not at all easy, was survived. There you go, started rads and Tamoxifen this week. Waiting for menopause to kick in any day now. Sincere good luck to everyone... xxxxxxxx

Has anyone had mamosite and brackytherapy for breast cancer. I had this last year and have had a lot of problems

I had mammosite and brackytherapy last year wondered did anyone else have this and did they have any problems

Hello! I was diagnosed with breast cancer in late Nov, grade 2 stage 2, had lumpectomy and node biopsy which showed minuscule traces of cancer so had lymph glands removed on 14 Dec but luckily all others were clear. Scans all clear. Met my Oncologist the other day and am due to start chemo, 6TC over 18 weeks, in 2 weeks in Tallaght (am patient in Vincent's but they have no cold caps) Just wondering if anyone else will be starting then too? Was terrified but seem to have my head round things a bit better now especially after meeting th Oncologist who was so nice and also reassuring. Love Linda xx

My sister had osophageus cancer 2 years ago and had an operation which lasted 12 hours. Her blood levels were low and she was unable to have radium or chemo treatment afterwards. It has been a long gruelling and very difficult recovery - but she was upbeat and positive throughout her many bad days. She has lost a lot of weight and suffered nausea and cramps. At Christmas she seemed slightly better and we thought we were beginning to see the wood for the trees. However last week she was told that she had peritoneal cancer and there is no more the doctors can do for her. Her children and the family are absolutely gutted. Has anyone any ideas of where we can go now. Are there any clinical trials? Any suggestions would be welcomed. She is such a wonderfully positive caring mam, wife, daughter and sister.

Hi, I am receiving treatment for Metestatic breast cancer in my bones and was wondering if anyone else is going through this at the moment, I would like to compare notes etc as I feel on my own at the present even though my family are great. What questions should I ask my oncologist? I am on Zometa every 4 weeks and have just finished my 8th session