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Tamoxifen - advice please !

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MargaretMountford · 27/05/2009 11:20

Am going to be starting Tamoxifen shortly, was just wondering whether anyone else is on it and can tell me what it's like ! thanks !

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MaryAnnSingleton · 18/09/2009 23:36

I tried doing that from your fb album name but I think your privacy settings won't allow me to access your profile to request friendship ! let me think...

MaryAmericanSmooth · 20/09/2009 08:56

RWU - in case I don't get back today -will be thinking of you tomorrow and sending love xxxx

reallywoundup · 20/09/2009 16:58

cheers! am sitting cacking myself atm- i hate hospitals have my little bag all packed and ready

MaryAmericanSmooth · 20/09/2009 16:59

was just this minute thinking of you..don't be scared xx

reallywoundup · 20/09/2009 17:35

i have valium

Cakesandale · 21/09/2009 09:17

RWU - I am betting you don't see this today. But I am thinking of you anyway. Take a deep breath and stay strong.

xx

reallywoundup · 21/09/2009 17:36

i am home- ds's all asking why i have plug now- do i need to be charged up

Went well, stayed for a while afterwards, now a bit sore but have drugs all in all not bad- first in, at 9.30, home by 4.15! God love Bronglais Hospital

MaryAmericanSmooth · 21/09/2009 18:05

oh well done reallywoundup - you're a star !

MaryAmericanSmooth · 21/09/2009 18:07

can I ask you two about this btw ?
here

reallywoundup · 21/09/2009 18:28

have replied again- i think its off- she uses her tits to make money, not quite sure what my arguement against it is tbh- just don't like her maybe we are just in the boat atm so its more personal (and ffs- she didn't survive cancer she had a fecking mole removed ) grrrrrrrr.........

MaryAmericanSmooth · 21/09/2009 18:42

mm, didn't want to out myself really by saying much..I don't have any opinions really on KP - but I think for those who have had mastectomies and a lot of cancer surgery it seems a bit much to have her breasts so prominent in a campaign- she has scars but they aren't the same.

reallywoundup · 21/09/2009 18:45

sorry but the last post "would you prefer they use someone who has never experienced cancer" [snort] a growth on a finger hardly constitutes the invasive treatment many people go through does it i still don't like her, it or Asda (that maybe just because its two hours to get to the nesrest one )

MaryAmericanSmooth · 21/09/2009 18:59

I feel a bit depressed by this - there is much anger on the BCC forum

reallywoundup · 21/09/2009 19:15

i have just posted again, i thought about it for a long time first BUT i feel that using KP is pushing the fact that my body especially my boobs are a bloody mess now through no fault of my own- she has chosen to have enhancing surgery. I can't quite put my finger on it but i don't like it at all.

MaryAmericanSmooth · 21/09/2009 19:22

I think I want to leave it alone now - am very lucky that my breast is only a bit dented but I feel on behalf of others who have been subjected to a mangling... I should probably leave the forums alone - but some people on them have been incredibly helpful to me so I feel I should defend them !

MaryAmericanSmooth · 21/09/2009 19:50

defend is wrong word - support is better !

MaryAmericanSmooth · 22/09/2009 09:24

how are you today RWU ?

Cakesandale · 22/09/2009 09:47

MAS - I have taken a look and posted on the other thread to add my two pence worth - now come back and find the answer to my question about KP's cancer. A bloody mole? Flipping heck, is that all it was?

I too am not terribly scarred - one is just a bit flatter underneath than the other, it looks like it has been sitting on a shelf for a bit too long - but the thought of katie Price getting her horrible, plastic baps out AGAIN in the name of this campaign makes me a feel a bit sick. (You can probably tell I can't stand her, not sure of it is the baps, the plastic lips, or the vacuous nonsense that comes out of her mouth that I like the least).

Anyway - what's with the name change MAS, are we into Strictly in a big way? I'm an X Factor girl myself, though getting a bit sick of the big auditions.

RWU - glad to hear it was not too bad, though I suspect you are a bit of a trouper, it would have knocked a lesser mortal for six a bit more. Hope you are feeling OK today: I bet that lovely DH of yours is looking after you wonderfully. (Can you tell I have bonded with him a bit now I know we both look old before our time ?)

Take it easy for a bit, and stay off argumentative threads! I could sense a bit of tension building there from the KP fans!

reallywoundup · 22/09/2009 10:07

I'm feeling fine- a bit wobbly when i'm tired but that's prob down to the sedative. Actual would is fine, nothing is 'paiful' but just feels a tad weird to have bits of tubing snaking around in my neck iyswim. As for being a trouper- i don't do the whole suffering thing i',m not much cop at being sensitive and caring in rl, so i just do what i would prefer others do- keep going!

KP thing has actually really wound me up- i would support the campaign wholeheartedly if the front-woman was someone relevent- but i will not support KP making more money (she was paid handsomely for the use of her tits- none of the fee was donated to charity ) So i'm afraid i shall be supporting Macmillan rather than tickled pink.

The risk group for BC is 35 upwards in most cases, i'm not aware of many normal 35 yo finding KP a 'role model'!

Cakesandale · 22/09/2009 10:27

No, I can imagine the tube in the neck thing must take a bit of getting used to. Do they take all the gubbins out at some future point, or do they leave it to minimise the mucking about you have to submit to?

I know what you mean about getting on with stuff, I am much the same (thuogh admittedly have had much less to get on with than you, so far). I can't stand all the constant phoning from concerned rellies, I know they mean well, but there quickly comes a point where there is nothing new to say, and talking just makes you feel worse. I must be a big disappointment for the chattering classes around here, whenever I get the dreaded sympathetic head-on-one-side "And how are you feeling?" I just go "Great thanks, how about you?". If it was up to me they would know NOTHING - shame DH is a bit of a blabberchops

Anyone over 35 who is even interestrd in KP - even in an "ooh look, a car crash" kind of way - has some challenges, that's for sure...

MaryAmericanSmooth · 22/09/2009 10:45

I love your get on with it attitude RWU and yours too Cakes -I do try to get over stuff too and sometimes am a little impatient with my nearest and dearest when they aren't very well - dh thinks I can be unsympathetic which makes me sound awful.
Have added another bit to the Asda thread - I don't want people to think I'm butting in unasked on other people's behalves but the bc forums have really made me think more than I would have before,iyswim.
Am a huge Strictly fan ! missed Claudia last night as that programme is on at an awkward time.
Off to have head stitches out - hope I can behave in the surgery.

Cakesandale · 22/09/2009 11:12

Stitches out is ouchy, MAS, hope it goes OK and you do not keel over

Do not worry about your dh and lack of sympathy, most men like to wring every last drop out of a bit of a cold. Sympathy is not usually required.

Did not have a good day yesterday - dd had been pestering me for a playdate for ages, I avoid as they always turn a bit fighty, not sure why. Dd is usually pretty sweet, but it always get very argumentative and snatchy, and she is every bit as bad as the rest of them, PLUS we both work at home, so it is hard for dh if world war 3 is breaking out around him. So anyway I caved in and took dd and her best friend to the park - neutral turf and no disturbance for dh, who has a lot on his plate at the mo.

Felt like a referee, it was no better than before. And dd had the gall to say - as soon as we had dropped her bf off - I wish I could play with her more often. WHY???? IT IS HELL!!!

But today I feel like a weight has been lifted, as there is no playdate looming. Yay!! This evening it is a session at the school on how they teach laths in Key Stage 1, and that sounds like heaven in comparison!

Cakesandale · 22/09/2009 11:14

Clearly that should have been "maths"

MaryAmericanSmooth · 22/09/2009 11:44

laths -woodworky maths !! Oh how I'm glad we are beyond having kids over to play -quite frankly an awful prospect -not that ds behaved badly or fought-just other people's kids rampaging around !! He does on occasion have a friend over for tea but all the friends want to do is go on the computer/keyboards/etc and ds is always very obliging but would probably rather do his own stuff
Think that having an only they do seem very self sufficient.I used to get mightily annoyed with my friends who just came to read all my comics because their mum forbade them in their house. I took to hiding them under my doll's cot mattress.
Stitches out ok- not too scary- no blood ! Am going to have to psych myself up for the removal of another at some point, but think I'll wait a wee while (until poor doctor has forgotten about the 'emergency bleeder' as the nurse referred to me)

Cakesandale · 22/09/2009 12:15

She called you WHAT? How very rude........

I think you are very much a "getter on with it" actually - just a bit squeamish over blood. And I'm not good either, when it is my own.

Agree leave a while for the next one. Pace yourself.

I do see my dd in your description of yourself. As an only she is used to her own space and stuff amd gets quite territorial about it all. And yet she'd give away her last sweet or anything she owned at other times, she is quite a good sharer. Just not of her own domestic space.