CANCER SUPPORT THREAD 58 - New thread, new year, but the lacies are still here! Please join us if you have any sort of cancer, or are waiting for test results

[WhatWouldLeslieKnopeDo]

Happy New Year! may 2017 bring health and happiness to us all

Welcome to oldies and to newbies. If you've just been diagnosed then this is the place for you. And if you're waiting for test results then please pull up a chair. We will hold your hand while you wait, and hopefully we will be able to send you on your way soon enough. If it isn't the news you hope for then we will be here for you.

Our previous thread is here

Following on from royalmama's suggestion (see, you're not just famous for typos!) I have compiled some of the excellent advice from the previous thread and I will post it below. I've divided it into sections to make it a bit more manageable. Please give me ideas on how to make it better for the next thread! :)

@ilovechocolates you are not selfish. At every stage I have found waiting for results to be the most stressful.

@VLCos I don't think MN lets you share blogs aside from in their blogs section.

@amberlight They seem to prescribe aspirin as a preventive measure for many things. I am sure I was on aspirin when pregnant.

@chewingawasp I am sorry your notes weren't much use.

I am also not sleeping at the moment. I have a skin tag/mole on my back which seems to be growing fast and is very itchy. I managed to convince myself in the madness that you have at 4am when you can't sleep that I now have skin cancer. I feel a bit daft now that it is the next day.

My first period post surgery has arrived and it has floored me. I am in so much pain and absolutely exhausted. I am supposed to be back at work in a few weeks and I just can't see how it is going to happen. I was actually supposed to be back at work today as I was advised that I needed two weeks recovery time.

Gold I'm sorry you're struggling. If you need to, you could ask your GP for something to help with the anxiety and/or sleep.

I had a recurrence last year and my GP prescribed me propranolol, which really helped with the anxiety while I was waiting for the scan results to show how much it had spread etc

Please none of you feel bad about posting. It's not a competition, and we all know how difficult the waiting is. Pretty much everyone on the thread has been through the breast clinic experience so has been exactly where you are now. And the rest of us have been through similar processes.

Hopefully you'll all get good news at your various appointments, but you are completely welcome here and to share however you are feeling

Tw1nset I think it's fine to share blogs if people ask/are interested, as long as you're not promoting it, which you weren't :) I think you're just not allowed to start new threads in the wrong topic to promote them. So feel free to post it here if you'd like.

I found my periods were much worse after surgery. I think it was the adhesions transferring the pain to my bowel. Can you get signed off for a bit longer? I'm on the progesterone only pill now, which has completely stopped my periods thankfully. I'll be getting the implant once I can get an appointment.

@WhatWouldLeslieKnopeDo If I need to I can ask to be signed off for longer. I teach and have another two weeks on my sick not and then there is a week for half term and so I maybe OK by then- but equally I may not. They have somebody in covering my lessons and so the sooner I let them know the better - but how on earth do you know how you will fee in a few weeks.

I have always struggled with painful periods and my anaemia gets worse when my periods starts. Anything below my waist seems to be a nightmare at the moment

Didn't sleep much tbh. Am busy at work so that's a blessing. Got an appt Friday morning so just gotta last until then. Then we'll see how it goes. Thanks for understanding everyone

I daren't admit how much of my evening I have spent faffing about with it, but our shiny new thread is now ready here

So far it is just me talking to myself, but hopefully some of you will find your way there tomorrow to keep me company!

Goodnight lacies

Hi all,
Newbie on this thread. I have today been referred to Clinic for further investigations under the two week timescale - after breast/underarm pain and dense ridge of tissue. Trying to be positive but freaking out a little. Feel emotional and can't concentrate on anything. About to collect DD from school.

We have family history.

Hugs to everyone

Hi Blossom :)

We have a new thread here so you'd probably be better off posting there so you don't get missed!

I hope you get an appointment quickly

My father has been diagnosed with lung cancer I think it is advanced, only a week ago, he had an appointment with his doctor and starts radiotherapy on Friday- it is thought that it will extend his life and make him comfortable. My dad said to my sister he was going to refuse the treatment as it was painful but my sister said to him living with the illness is also painful and this will make you more confortable. So my dad said he would try it.

He Lives in St Kitts and my sisters and I live in the UK so he is surround by friends and relatives at the moment we arrive in 2 days. The problem is they say things like when your time is up its up. My dad is 87 years old and one of his friends said my sister persuaded him to have the treatment and the friend feels he will not cope with it.

I am a strong believer in choosing what you want to do in life and also in death but I feel these peoples opinion are influencing my dad.
Any words of wisdom-your thoughts, opinions what you would do in this situation