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Health challenges after treatment
Discuss physical challenges that occur six months after treatment and beyond, and help others understand the ongoing dynamic changes caused by radiation to the pelvis and chemotherapy. These chronic and often permanent changes continue to manifest for years after treatment and it can be difficult to understand the changes going on in ones body.
Hip pain?
- By Obi69 · New reply 9:23 am
- 9 replies
- I have squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix..i had major radiation to the pelvis area that was in july was last of tx..i have had hip pain small and tolerable..now my hips hurt so bad i can hardly walk ...
Can't take Estrogen..any suggestions
- By sr5er · New reply yesterday at 6:50 pm
- 5 replies
- I was wondering if anyone could help me with this dilemia. I have recurrent cervical cancer..so they will not put me on estrogen. Afraid it will cause another cancer. any suggestions for herbal/natural ...
Bloating
- By JBO713 · Posted November 5, 2009
- 0 replies
- I had a leep this past june for cin III/cis and ever since then I have been extremely bloated. It comes on more when I am getting my period but I am bloated all the time. I also started to vitamins and ...
Pregnancy with HPV,LEEP,PCOS
- By Amanda5507 · New reply November 4, 2009
- 14 replies
- Hello all, This is my first post and I just want to say I am very inspired by all the support and advice I have read through other posts on this site. I guess I just need to vent about my personal situation ...
Tubal Cancer
- By okla_butterfly · New reply November 3, 2009
- 1 reply
- After 6 months of Chemo and 5 weeks of intense radiation therapy .... 5 months later walking with a walker because of lower back pain and hip pain. Can radiation treatment cause this kind of pain? They ...
Any one with radiation enteritis?
- By JenniferLG · New reply November 1, 2009
- 1 reply
- Hi, I finished my treatments in Dec 2007, everything was going great(well as good as can be expected) until the beginning of 2009. The doctor thinks I have enteritis. Not much is being done about it ...
9 Days After Leep? Discharge Question.
- By mamagaines · New reply October 29, 2009
- 22 replies
- It has been 9 days since my LEEP. Let me tell you I will never have that procedure done again unless they knock me out. My cervical block / local what ever you want to call it did not take place. Needless ...
nausea after hysterectomy
- By Wendii · New reply October 23, 2009
- 3 replies
- I had a total hysterectomy on Oct. 5 - in the past three days I have felt very nauseated. It feels like the nausea that I had when I was pregnant. I'm trying to figure out if this could be due to the ...
Is my problems post hysterectomy normal
- By traceybcn · New reply October 23, 2009
- 8 replies
- Hi all, I did an abdominal hysterectomy 14 days ago and suffer severe bowel pain when I go to the bathroom. My lower abdomen is very sullen ( I think that is the english word) and I have quite smelly ...
Life SUCKS!!!!
- By babyj870508 · New reply October 20, 2009
- 3 replies
- Ok, I haven't been on the board for awhile. Updates are; I had cryo therapy back in April, ended up getting an infection from that and spent a week in the hospital being treated for endometritis.. OH ...
Bowel pain after hysterectomy?
- By kb1200 · New reply October 18, 2009
- 45 replies
- I had a total hysterectomy March 31 for adenocarcinoma in situ. Since then I have had horrible bowel pains from gas and anytime I have a bowel movement it is excrutiating. My ob thinks it may still be ...
recovering from radical trachelectomy
- By christiecsr · New reply October 18, 2009
- 10 replies
- Hi everyone. It's been awhile since I have posted. I was diagnosed with stage 1b1 cervical cancer on June 28th. I had a radical trachelectomy with node dissection on August 26th and am home recovering ...
8 wees pregant after a recent cone
- By cmp75 · New reply October 12, 2009
- 3 replies
- had cone biopsy in June after having CIN III CIS0. I was told it was ok to have sex 6 weeks later. My husband and I had already made the decision to start a family and fell pregnant in August, I am now ...
New decision after all these years
- By cfng102 · New reply October 9, 2009
- 2 replies
- I had adenocarcinoma in situ and carcinoma in situ 18 years ago when I was 25. It was treated with a laser cone biopsy and I have not had an abnormal pap since. Here is my dilema now.....I have moved ...
HPV speading
- By jespinar12 · New reply October 8, 2009
- 3 replies
- My boyfriend of 2 years was diagnosed with HPV and went to the doctor to have warts removed on him. the doctor put that acid on him and they dried up,this was about a month ago. Is it okay if we have ...
hypothyroidism and hypertension along with TAH
- By cat1116 · New reply October 2, 2009
- 12 replies
- Just wondering if there's anyone else out there that has had a TAH [adenocarcinoma] and also has hypo-thyroidism and hypertension as well and how they manage their lives. Does it ever seem that what is ...
Hysterectomy post-partum?
- By hitch1012 · New reply September 25, 2009
- 4 replies
- Has anyone had a hysterectomy w/ a newborn at home? My oncologist is recommending a hysterectomy 6 weeks after our baby is born. This is hypothetical-- I am not pregnant yet. He would use the DaVinci ...
Bowel and urnine problems after so much sugery
- By oregongirl1 · New reply September 13, 2009
- 6 replies
- I had a total hys, then i had radation treatments for endomeatrial cancer its all gone but i developed radation entrinitius and a small bowel blockage right at the connction of the large and small bowel ...
Trying not to be scared!
- By Tavy · New reply September 10, 2009
- 2 replies
- Well I've been 1 year and 3 months out of treatment for stage 1b cc. I had a total hysterectomy and then 7 weeks of external radiation. I went in for my 3 month check up last week. Had a pap, ct scans ...
Menopause symptoms
- By Eimaj · New reply September 10, 2009
- 2 replies
- I am almost two months post op Radical Hysterectomy. At week 3, I started having horrible hot flashes and night sweats. I finally talked with my Gyn about it. I have been taking 1mg of Estradiol for the ...
