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Hello ladies I am 5 weeks since bowel obstruction surgery and doing well. I ended up in A & E again earlier this week with chest pain on my right side & right shoulder. The hotline said I need it checked as could be a clot. I spent 8 long hours there, sooo busy, to be told 2 nodules in my left lung

Hello from Australia 👋 I hope you're all coping and doing as well as you can. Sorry to barge in from the other side of the world but I have an English based query. I have triple negative Inflammatory beast cancer and nearing completion of about a year and a half of chemo with a mastectomy and

Starting Chemotherapy with I think Docetaxel and Cisplatin MO suggesting Immunotherapy

Sorry in advance for the long message - this will be a long one. This is my second time posting since 2019. In 2019, I was suffering from stomach issues. My Calprotecin levels were >67mg and I had a colonoscopy on 11th Nov 2019, where they found very mild patchy erythema at the end of my colon, going

Hi everyone, I am an IBS/SIBO sufferer, and I have recently been booked in for a gastroscopy, and I would like to get some advice from any of you guys who might have had this procedure done before. My main symptoms mostly revolve around indigestion, severe bloating, and gut spasms. So I mainly want

I went to see the doctor a couple of weeks ago about my urgency and not being able to hold it very long and then not being able to completely evacuate and also I had a bulge in my vagina. He says I have a mild prolapse so I asked if this is connected to my bowel problems but he says not. He gave me the

HiSo pleased to have an iron panel work after so many attempts last yr, worked 2nd attempt:) Just to recap please, had another b12 loading dose end March. Ferritin 48, then dropped 37 mid June (nhs) End July(pinprick thyroid test)=85 1wk ltr(iron panel)=110 1wk ltr(I.p.retest)=59.9 Crp consistently

I just got back my PET/CT results from yesterday. Bad! I have never had so much progression. Little spots, some new, some growing from last time, mostly in thoracic and lung area. Apparently, ribociclib (Kisqali) + exemestane didn't work at all. That is the last of the CDK4/6 inhibitors and ER inhibitors

hi there I seem to remember in my distant past that I was told not to take Imodium due to my diverticulosis is that the right word? LOL? Is there a reason for this? I also have IBS I stay gluten-free and dairy free. I find it helps slightly. I have a lot of nausea, I took an Imodium a week ago and I

I was diagnosed with CLL/SLL Jan 2023.i completed O and V March 8 th of this year. My most recent labs show that my ALC went from 2.45 in March to 4.8 with yesterday's labs. Almost all of my numbers are down. (Rbc'sHgb, hct, platlets) Throughout treatment my labs were close to within range except for

I've had PMR for about two years. All symptoms vanished completely as soon as I was put on Prednisolone (15mg per day), but I had a bad experience with trying to reduce, as advised by both GPs and my rheumatologist, by large cliff-edge steps--from 15mg to 12.5mg, then 10mg, all in a very few weeks.

I posted earlier that I had to ask ChatGPt "who came up with the 'gasoline on a fire' characterization regarding the relationship of testosterone and prostate cancer" and that Chat GPT had answered -- Dr. Patrick Walsh -- (father of the radical prostatectomy.) In that post, discussion turned to Walsh's

My husband has had issues with peeing for years ( probably why stage 4 at diagnosis, cause blamed BPH) . He recently finished last chemo 3 weeks ago and is again noticing a change when peeing. Says that he feels a great deal of pressure towards the end of the pee stream and feels like the end of his

I’ve recently had a terrible time following what should have been prep for a colonoscopy and turned into needing emergency care in Hospital. Drinking the purgative laxative as directed lead to excruciating pain and took me to A&E. A scan showed what surgeons said was a thickening of colon and rest of

My Dads new oncologist switched his steroid from prednisolone to dexamethasone - she was distressed at first appointment to see he was on zytiga and prednisolone. She said research pretty clear that dexamethasone is better. On today's PSA results she is clearly correct. We thought that he had become

Hi all, i appreciate this is a little TMI, but I’ve occasionally been experiencing vaginal bleeding after pooping. It’s definitely vaginal bleeding. I made notes and realised it was happening about twice a month (between periods), but I’ve had an increase in this recently. Not starting a period, and

just wanted to provide an update on using immunotherapy, in my case Opdivo and Yervoy. Some background: 6 years after my initial diagnosis of OVCA, it was discovered via a raised CA125 and subsequent CT Scan, that I had developed 3 tumors on my Psoas muscle of my back. These were classified as ovarian

I just cancelled my upcoming appointment for next week. I am also due for Lupron infusion. How do I tell my well meaning MO that I will not be taking anymore infusions. I have been on it for almost two years this time. Why am I doing it? Because I feel miserable, the hot flashes, the sweat especially

Hi all, I had my laparoscopy on 17th July where superficial widespread endometriosis was excised (everything they could see) and ended up with post op ileus so had an extended stay in hospital after my surgery. I’m now almost 5 weeks post op and my pain is still so severe and debilitating at points and

Probably my last post because I solved my RLS problem. It's gone, and no drugs. I've posted this as a c omment in response to several individual posts but get pretty much "how nice for you" responses and then they go on talking about drugs. So one last time. If you are unwilling to try this and instead