Breathlessness and headaches update!! - My Ovacome

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Breathlessness and headaches update!!

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Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts and experience on my last post. Just to let you know that I saw my oncologist today and he has booked me a CT scan -should be within the next two weeks. I am stopping Niraparib for three weeks as well just to check the symptoms are not side effects. He did say that Niraparib can scar the lungs. I had not heard of this. Anyone else heard this or had lung scarring as a side effect of Niraparib? Thanks again, the support from this group is brilliant!!

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So a quick Google search and I think the oncologist was referring to pneumonitis when he talked about Niraparib scarring the lungs as mentioned by Lyndy in the previous post.

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Kjpip

Good luck with your scan, let us know the outcome won't you? I hope you manage to recover a bit in the next few weeks and start feeling more like yourself again xx

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delia2

Good luck with your scan. I hope the breathlessness can be improved. I know it’s not pleasant. Xx

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Atai

Best of luck ! Keep us posted! X

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