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Hodgkin lymphoma?
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Hi all not posted on here for awhile, but anyway about 2 months ago i woke up in the night and could hardly breathe had serious chest pains etc, so i went to the docs and he told me have a chest x-ray done which i did. The day after the x-ray i got a call from my doctor saying he wanted to see me urgently.
On my way to the doctors i knew something was really wrong and it was he tells me ive got shadows showing up on my x-ray and suspected it was some form on cancer.
As you can imagine my head was wrecked being told i could have cancer at 22! so after that i had to have a biopsy done on my chest on the affected area. A week later i got the results and it was Hodgkin lymphoma (form of cancer in the lymth glands).
Ive got my head together now and accepted it and i start my chemotherapy tomorrow which i aint looking forward to one bit.
just wondered if any one else has had a similar experience with this illness at all??
thanks.
On my way to the doctors i knew something was really wrong and it was he tells me ive got shadows showing up on my x-ray and suspected it was some form on cancer.
As you can imagine my head was wrecked being told i could have cancer at 22! so after that i had to have a biopsy done on my chest on the affected area. A week later i got the results and it was Hodgkin lymphoma (form of cancer in the lymth glands).
Ive got my head together now and accepted it and i start my chemotherapy tomorrow which i aint looking forward to one bit.
just wondered if any one else has had a similar experience with this illness at all??
thanks.
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She's now half way through her second year at uni and living the standard student life. Chemo really knocked her strength and limited what she could do, but she's bounced back very well since it finished.
*Hugs*
She lost a lot of her hair during the course of chemo, not straight away by any means, but over the course a lot fell out and it really thinned out. If it helps at all, hers grew back pretty quickly and thickly after the chemo stopped. Most peoples doesn't go overnight, the change is reasonably gradual so you can adjust to the gradual changes in appearance. I know that doesn't really help, just trying to answer your questions.
If you want my msn or anything, or just to ask more not on the board then do feel free to pm me.
My friend was hit really hard by the chemo, and he did lose pretty much all of his hair. I'm not sure how well-versed you are about the specifics, or even how much you've been told so far - but hair loss and all the other side effects are all dependent on the drug combinations used in your chemo. I'm not sure what his were, but obviously whatever they were caused his hair to fall out. I think it's pretty common. It's definitely a good idea to start coming to terms with this now, though of course it's not a certainty that you'll lose all your hair. It's just that it will come as a shock even if you know it's going to happen, so it's best to be prepared and think about how you're going to react if and when yo do start to lose it. I hope it'll be of some (or a lot of) comfort to you that he has a gorgeous, thick head of hair again less than three years on.
He was recommended to cut his hair as short as he was willing beforehand, by the way, I'm not sure if that has been suggested to you. He didn't go all that short, but obviously it might help some people to take that step. Oh and cotton rather than nylon pillowcases are recommended where possible; before, during and after treatment.
Anyway enough pillow/hair talk, all the very, very best for tomorrow. I really hope it all goes as well as can be, please keep us updated on your progress if you can find the time and if you ever need any more support or advice then this is one of many places you'll always find it
ive got very good support from family and friends etc but all ways nice to have other opinions,just gonna be a hard next 6-8 months.