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New! Moving Forward photo gallery

We're developing a new online photo exhibition and we’d like your input. The Moving Forward gallery will feature pictures of people who have completed treatment and are moving forward from breast cancer. As well as providing a way for people to read ab...

Posted by Mike BCC on Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:39 pm with 3 comments

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Hi, Sounds good to me - at the moment you will only be able to add one photo to the exhibition but if there is one you would prefer after some time, just get in touch and we'll update your profile. Thanks for your interest and hopefully this exhibitio...

Mike BCC, Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:55 pm
Where did I go????

Hi girls I am now 10 mths post op so a relative oldie compared to some of you young girlies bless you all.. I,m 61 a nurse, very much a bubbly person NO lets rephrase that... WAS a very bubbly person, Where did I go??? I,ve had lots of trauma's in my l...

Posted by Doz1949 on Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:19 am with 450 comments

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Hi all I hope you have kept cosy and warm as good flutterbys should! Well guess what? I went to good old M&S to be measured for bra and had a really good lady who knew her stuff (30 years in the job!) she advised that I only buy two bras for now as I a...

emmy, Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:12 pm
Darling buddies from May - moving on

Hi, hope you all wiggle your way over here from our other giant thread. Just want to wish you a very Happy New Year and hoping that 2009 will be much better for all of us. Go make those dreams happen Love Lily x x

Posted by Lily200 on Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:34 am with 3899 comments

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Lisa, sorry to hear that you’ve gained half a pound, which really isn’t too drastic in the grand scheme of things and you are trying really hard so I’m sure you’ll make your target in two weeks. Your poor Mum hope she is ok now? Nicky, as for you...

peacock, Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:00 pm
White spots on bottom of inner eyelid

Hi there I am now 4 months post chemo (3 FEC then 3 Docetaxel) and still on herceptin. My syelashes are now growing back but I am trouble by white spots on the bottom of my inner eyelid which seem to be flumoxing my GP. We suspect that they are caus...

Posted by Mazzalou on Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:23 pm with 1 comments

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Hi there, I think I have had the same problem but not sure? I had the same treatment to yourself and have only just finished herceptin. I have had a little spot (or raised area) on both lower eyelids for quite a while now, although mine are not whit...

bonnielass, Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:54 pm
Hair Dye after chemo

Morning ladies, I had my last chemo on 8th November 2011 and would love to dye my hair as I have a huge patch of grey right at the top of my head -- does anyone have any suggestions as to which hair dye I can use at home or would I be better to go to ...

Posted by My 2 boys on Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:25 am with 4 comments

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Hi i finished chemo on oct 27th and i dyed my hair on jan 26th .I went to holland and barrat and bought a nitrating.I bought hazelnut brown.Not my usual colour but i didn't want to look harsh as my hair is really short . I was going to wait but i went ...

lisha, Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:02 pm
1 year on

throw my treatment i joked about it throw op cheom rad and was happy go lucky why after all that i get so down and cant bounce back can anybody help please

Posted by angie1963 on Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:37 pm with 4 comments

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Hi Angie, What you are feeling is quite normal. You may find the following link useful. It is an article about dealing with life after treatment finishes: http://www.cancercounselling.org.uk/northsouth/extra4.nsf/WebResClient/1761049276601BD6802573...

RoadRunner, Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:04 pm
Found a henna-based long-lasting parabens-free lipstick

Hello, I had a mastectomy 10 months ago, thankfully no radio- or chemotherapy, just Tamoxifen. I've been trying to find parabens-free make-up. For my eyes, I just dye my eyebrows and mascara: The stuff they sell in Boots has no parabens. As for lipsti...

Posted by JudSawyer on Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:34 pm with 5 comments

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In case anyone is interested, it turns out that Lipcote is parabens free. It also happens to be vegetarian. Hurrah, I don't need to go out with manky lips!

JudSawyer, Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:45 pm
any advice on going back to work please?

Hi everyone i finished my treatment on 20th dec .I had 7 months of treatment of which i was on sick from work.I had op chemo and rads . I work in a busy tearoom and it is quite a physical job including things like carrying trays full of pots to and fro...

Posted by lisha on Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:35 pm with 29 comments

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Hi lorna45 just wondering how your first week went.I hope the energy i sent you worked xx

lisha, Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:18 pm
Has anyone had counselling/been to a support group?

Hi everyone Well, my diagnosis was two and a half years ago. During that time, i had a terrible experience with a tissue expander breast reconstruction which was performed very poorly by an inexperienced surgeon. As a result, last summer my skin split ...

Posted by NAZ on Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:14 pm with 12 comments

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Counselling doesn't have to have a structure and a plan and a "this is what we're going to talk about this week" feel. When I go, it usually starts with "Hello" and then we go from there. My poor counsellor has seen as many different versions of me as ...

ChoccieMuffin, Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:09 pm
Hair growth post treatment

Tigerlilly Tigerlilly says on 03 Sep 2011 12:32 Hi all, I feel like the only one who's hair is still not back one year after treatment ended.......I finished my chemo in August 2010 and although I have some hair it is so sparse from a distance I stil...

Posted by Tigerlilly on Sat Sep 03, 2011 12:34 pm with 41 comments

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Thank you all for your comments. Hearing that some of you have had improvements long after chemo has finished has cheered me up. I had a 'smidgen' cut off mine today, my hairdresser said it made it look thicker. I am not sure about that but it certainl...

January, Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:40 pm
Painful Mammograms

I have always found mammograms horrendously painful, even before I was diagnosed with BC. The radiographers always think I'm over-reacting and aren't all that sympathetic. Does anyone else have this problem and/or have any advice?

Posted by Jeniffer on Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:19 am with 11 comments

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Had my 1 year on mammo today and I can honestly say it only hurt half as much as last year.... but then I do have half as many boobs now.... chin up to us all x

charlotte e, Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:15 pm
Shrophire Lasses

Hi Girls, Have noticed that quite a few of us hail from sunny Shropshire. Does anybody think that meeting up might be quite good? If so, I am o.k to organise. Janeyb x

Posted by Janeyb on Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:56 am with 5 comments

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Hi Shropshire Lasses, there is also a thread just called Shropshire that I started back in some month last year, but good to organise as many meet ups as possible. I cannot make as many meet ups as i used to when still on treatment, didnt know about th...

silvershar, Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:52 pm
Mastectomy- feeling the cold

i had a bi-lateral mastectomy going on three years ago. Ever since then I really feel the cold. I always used to be the last person in the house to put the heating on and the first to turn it off. Now, as well as having the heating on I sit huddled un...

Posted by janail on Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:03 pm with 5 comments

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josie I'm on Anastrazole. I did wonder if it was anything to do with that.

janail, Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:09 pm
has my cancer returned

iwent for my yearly mamogram last week its two years since my treatment for bc finished i had to go back for another mamogram and i had a scan and needle biopsy the doctor said i had two small lumps which he thinks is thickening of fatty tissue and he ...

Posted by gissele on Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:33 pm with 20 comments

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If it is any help- one of the first patients I knew with a Breat cancer recurrence is still alive and well over twenty years down the line. Big Hug Cackles

Cackles, Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:39 am
Underactive Thyroid caused by treatment?

Hi ladies just wondered if anyone else been diagnosed with underactive thyroid after active treatment. Had WLE and SNB this time last year, followed by FEC/Taxol and radiotherapy. Went back to work in October on a phased return but still very tired e...

Posted by adi on Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:54 pm with 8 comments

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Hi Adi, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism following chemo. I was initally overactive (thyroiditis they call it) however i then became extremely underactive and i put on a lot of weight. I now take levothyroxine and it seems to be incontrol. my antib...

pippa1985, Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:00 pm
Nail Health

Hi everyone, How long does it take for our finger and toe nails to return to health after chemotherapy? I've lost all my fingernails (toes going the same way) and noticed that the regrowth looks almost as unhealthy as the ones that fell off in the fi...

Posted by nymeria on Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:03 pm with 21 comments

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No-one mentions whether they are on Herceptin as well. I had AC and Paclitaxol chemo and have just finished 12 months of Herceptin. Whilst on Taxol I had horrendeous neuropthy in both fingers and toes. At the worst I too couldn't stand the bed clot...

SamLee, Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:58 pm
after treatment

hi ladies/am 2 weeks after the treatment has finished (6 fec 20 rads) all done in 7 mouths thought i was coping really well (famous lats words) am back to work part time 4 hours a day so s-please tell me why i`am not happy !! i know it all takes time j...

Posted by queenie from devon on Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:58 pm with 18 comments

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hiya im in the same place as you and dont know wot to do i thougth it was only me not wot you wanted to hear sorry

angie1963, Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:28 pm
My hair one year on from last chemo!

I know there have been several threads on here about hair growth, however I thought a thread which talked about the hair one year on would be good for us to share where we are all at. I finished chemo last Feb and today had my 3rd haircut! It seemed to...

Posted by jaynek on Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:52 pm with 7 comments

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Mine took ages to grow back, the oncologist told me they were finding that with Herceptin treatment. After it started I let it grow back for about 5 months before I had it trimmed up and shaped. The hairdressers I went to did it for nothing as they sai...

cherub, Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:40 pm
Work Appraisal

BC diagnosed April 2010 - surgery - chemo - radiotherapy. Treatment finished January 2011. Worked through all my treatment but had 2 months off January to March 2011. Phased return to work reaching full time hours end of My 2011 I've just had my 2011 ...

Posted by lesleyx on Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:08 pm with 11 comments

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This is just scandalous! I'm so sorry that you're having to face this on top of everything else. You've had some great advice here and I really hope you can find the strength to pursue and win your case, for yourself and any others who might come up ag...

Angelfalls, Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:31 pm
struggling. why am i finding it all too hard

hey all. here goes. mom ,dx and mastectomy dec 2009 me , breathing problems for years, end up being dx with trachea stenosis, operation need to remove part of wind pipe, all set for sept 2010. . age 42!!! 3 weeks before op find a lump and am dx sep...

Posted by poppy333 on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:48 pm with 29 comments

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And this winter I feel less like wearing a hat, as it looks as if I have no hair...there's no pleasing us, is there???!!!

Lavender Lassie, Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:19 pm
Endometrial cancer????

Hi Ladies My GP has referred me under the 2 week rule for a endometrial biopsy and I am trying to remain calm and convince myself that she is just doing so to reassure me but ...... don't want to be back in the waiting room!

Posted by queen of retail therapy on Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:00 am with 6 comments

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Hi everyone Thanks for all the support and advice I have already had a whole load of blood tests which thankfully came back absolutely normal, it's only eighteen months since my last smear but my GP has arranged for me to have another. I've been with m...

queen of retail therapy , Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:03 am
Knees.!!!! Can the treatment affect them ?

Hi all just been t the doctors as havin trouble with my knees been trying to do sum exercising but hav hurt my knee n it's swollen n painfully had trouble with th other knee last year. Th doc said he didn't expect them t grate so much at my age. Has ...

Posted by rozita on Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:04 pm with 17 comments

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Hi ladies I finished chemo and rads last Oct I have been taking letrazole for around 5 months now and initially found myself suffering awful joint pain and felt 90 instead of a fairly fit 50 yr old. I found out through reading another post on here tha...

Magda, Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:59 pm
New Year Hair Challenge

Chemotherapy took my hair away before the second session. I am now four weeks post final chemo (I had 4 x EC and 4 x tax. I lost all my hair, eyelashes and eyebrows. I have a very fine covering of hair on my head - invisible until you get up close. ...

Posted by supertrouper on Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:25 pm with 18 comments

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31 days since I shaved my head for the last time and I am sporting a look similar to Sinead O'Conner or at least how she used to look. Don't need a magnifying mirror to see it now. I was blonde before, why does it look so dark now? Eyelashes are com...

supertrouper, Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:59 pm
Lifting weights and risk of lymphoedema

I've had WLE and SNB, chemo, rads and nearing the end of Herceptin - just 2 more to go. I've started going to the gym to try and build up my strength and stamina again and have been doing some kettlebells with the lightest weight (2KG). I'd like to p...

Posted by Lilac on Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:08 pm with 5 comments

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Thanks everyone - I think I'll stick to the light weights. Lilac x

Lilac, Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:33 pm
Jitters before 2nd Mammogram

Hi Ladies Just wondering if any of you have been in a similar situation as me.I was diagnosed with ILC in April 2010.Had a lumpectomy,chemo, rads and now on Tamoxifen. I will hopefully be having a breast reduction on my healthy breast in April and due...

Posted by hotmomma on Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:34 pm with 2 comments

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Hi Mezzomamma, I have been soaking in the bath for the past few hrs trying to relax and have come to the conclusion that there is no point of worrying needlessly until I get to speak to my surgeon next Monday. It could be something or nothing,but wor...

hotmomma, Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:30 pm

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