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What If You Could Have Better Sex After Breast Cancer Treatment?

There isn’t a one-stop shop approach to resolving problems with sex after breast cancer treatment. This is mainly due to the broad range of diagnosis an treatment options for breast cancer. Mainly though we are concerned about a lack of sex after breast cancer!

Sex after breast cancer treatment is not normally raised as an issue by the medical profession who are understandably rather more concerned with saving your life, than you having a good bonk after it’s all done with. Perhaps it’s understandable, and all that really means is that you need to identify and be proactive in resolving the situation for yourself.  The key word here is IDENTIFY.  I’m saying that because the upset (bit of an understatement I know) caused by the diagnosis and treatment tends to throw your life off balance.  One of the effects of this is not recognising when things are still off kilter, and of course if you don’t spot a problem, then you can’t take action to put it right can you.

There are so many different reasons why your sex life can go down the pan after breast cancer, and there are too many to cover in the one article.  So, here we are going to focus on YOUR reduced sex drive and suggest a few ideas for getting it back again.

So, why could you have a reduced sex drive? Here are some possible explanations:

1. Hormone treatments like Tamoxifen, and chemotherapy can reduce your sex drive so you just don’t fancy it.

These drugs illicit a physiological effect much the same as inadequate food or taking sleeping pills. Your overall performance is reduced and your sense of health and well-being suffers.  Interestingly, radiotherapy doesn’t appear to have the same effect.

2. The after effects of surgery, such as numb boob and non functioning nipples, or no nipples and no boob, can mean that a previously sexual part of your body has become a no-go zone because having it touched doesn’t feel nice anymore.

3. Both partners can feel embarrassed or uncomfortable about changes to your body.

You may also have to deal with letting go of the old parts (pun intended here) of your sexual routine. For instance, your partner may have loved nuzzling in the gully created by your breasts and that little comfort zone has now gone.

Sometimes there is more than this physical gap to overcome.

4. Vaginal dryness leading to reduced pleasure or even pain during intercourse. Dryness is often attributed to the after effects of chemotherapy and ongoing treatment by Tamoxifen. Vaginal dryness is also a symptom of the menopause. We cover advice about this in our programme and other articles but the first step is to ask your doctor for help.

Each of the above will have its own set of potential remedies but they can also combine to create the general feeling of not fancying sex or can’t be bothered. Here are a few tactics you can use to get it back again…

1. Much of our sexual desire is based on our visual, auditory and kinetic systems. So, you get a picture in your minds eye of an exciting sexual encounter, you remember sounds, or someone speaking sexy words to you, and finally you recall, and may even rekindle a feeling in your body. This ability to conjure up desire by visualising and remembering pasts events is crucial. And you can try it now by recalling a sexy moment you either experienced personally or watched in a film. Do you get a bit of a tingle in your tummy, or somewhere else? No, well give it time and keep practicing.

If you can’t remember anything right now then you can also induce it by using an outside stimulus. This is where porn is useful and remember, it must work because it’s one of the biggest markets in the world.

Just use the tools you’ve got (not pun intended). Start conjuring up real past experiences, or inventing new ones to induce that state of desire and get going right now. In a few days you could be cooking.

You may find keeping a diary useful. Use it to record any sexual feelings which crop up. Note down the time of day, what you thought about, what you saw in your minds eye, heard or felt, and if anyone was with you. If you review after a month or so, you may see a pattern emerging.

If nothings coming up for you them use porn or erotica. You will be able to find something to suit your personality and that of your partner. Of course you may have to go hunting around.

2. Are you feeling fearful that when you’re having sex your partner will be touching bits you don’t want touched anymore. Perhaps there’s other stuff you just don’t want to do as before such as undressing or hanging from the lampshades. That’s normal if you’re still feeling physically or psychologically sensitive to the changes and these underlying fears could be dampening or seizing up your desire.

You must tell your partner what has changed. What do you want now and what do you not want them to do? You’re reinventing your sex life after breast cancer. Your partner will not just get this stuff by osmosis and you have to spell it out otherwise they will get it wrong. How can they not? If they avoid your boob area then you’re likely to think they no longer want to touch or look at that part of you. On the other hand, if they steam in like before, but this time it’s into your numb, oversensitive and uncomfortable bits, then instead of erotic we have painful. My left boob area has only just rejoined the rest of my body and our sex life, and that’s a whole year after my radiotherapy ended.

Your partner will need proper information to get it right. Going rigid when you’re touched in the wrong place, or grimacing uncomfortably as they start to peel off your nightie really isn’t going to help the cause. Here are three suggestions to help you transition into a new sex life:

Grit your teeth and SAY exactly what it is you want

They will be doing their best to get it right so TRUST them

FORGIVE when they slip back into old habits because sometimes it can take a while (around 30 days) for a new habit to be formed. Get over it and get back on the job!

Your partner is making adjustments as well as you. REMEMBER this.

3. Attend to the small details and make an effort to create the right atmosphere. A sickness or upset can knock us off track and sometimes we seek out the comfortable. I mysteriously started wearing big knickers to go to my radiotherapy. Goodness knows why. The thing is, I was still wearing them months later whilst the skimpy strings I’d been sporting for years had somehow slid to the back of the draw. So, are you still in grannies knickers?

Start relaxing back into your sex life again. Hunt out and rescue those naughty nickers. If you didn’t have any then leave right now and buy some! Light some candles, have a bath, play Marvin Gaye, massage each other – whatever does it for you. You’re getting back into your sex life again by releasing all tension which might be building up around it.

This your chance to introduce new and invigorating elements into the old comfortable stuff of your courtship.

4. Visit a couples sex shop such as Ann Summers and just have a look around.

5. It’s an quirk of nature for many women that the less sex they have, the less sex they want. Once you get back in the saddle then you could be off again. So the final part is to get lubed up and JUST DO IT.

Sex after breast cancer can be as good, if not better, than before. So go for it.

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Yogurt – A Natural and Safe Home Remedy for Vaginal Yeast Infections

By Jonni Good

The most common home remedy for vaginal yeast infections is non-sweetened yogurt that contains active bacteria. Many commercial brands do not contain live acidophilus bacteria, so be sure to read the label. Nancy’s Yogurt, made in Oregon, contains several different types of live cultures and may help you re-establish your yeast/bacteria balance.

If you don’t live in an area that sells this particular brand, check the labels on the yogurt available at your local supermarket – “live cultures” should be prominently noted.

If you add sugar to the yogurt you will cancel out its benefits by feeding your yeast – if you really can’t bear the idea of eating unsweetened yogurt, add a small amount of honey instead of sugar. Honey has been proven to increase the numbers of beneficial bacteria in your gut, while sugar inhibits bacteria and feeds yeast. If you have to choose between sweeteners, always choose honey.

Brown sugar, raw sugar, and other forms of sugar are just sugar – they aren’t any better for you, and they should be avoided like the plague if you have a yeast infection.

Some people put yogurt in the vagina instead of eating it, in order to get the acidophilus down where it’s needed more quickly, but some studies have shown that this is not needed or effective. If you want to try it, you can insert the yogurt directly into the vagina by dipping a tampon (the kind without an applicator, like the OB brand) into unsweetened yogurt and then inserting it into the vagina. Remove the tampon after an hour or so.

You can also freeze yogurt in the fingers of a sterile plastic glove, and then insert the frozen yogurt popsicle in the vagina like a tampon. This can be a bit messy, so you may want to use a sanitary pad for a few hours. Believe it or not, the icy yogurt will feel good against your inflamed vaginal walls.

You can also find  suppositories containing live bacterial cultures at the natural food store and online. These products deliver the beneficial probiotics directly to the affected area. Make sure you select a capsule that contains only live bacterial cultures, and which does not contain herbal remedies such as Pau D’ Arco bark extract or black walnut that may kill the bacteria.

If you use one of these products or put yogurt in the vagina, you should also eat a cup of unsweetened yogurt every day as well. You need a strong population of acidophilus in your intestinal tract to help build up your natural defenses and keep your infection from coming back.

Since yogurt is not an antifungal treatment, there is no risk that it will cause your yeast population to mutate and become drug resistant. Even if you are lactose-intolerant, you may be able to tolerate yogurt, but if not, try one of the acidophilus capsules sold at the natural food store, instead.

If you want to use yogurt as a natural home remedy for your yeast infection, go ahead and experiment to see if it works for you. You may decide to cover all your bases, and use yogurt both as a topical treatment in the vagina or on your genital area, while also including it in your diet. As always, if your yeast infection does not clear up in a few days while using this remedy, it’s a good idea to make an appointment with your doctor. Most home remedies, including yogurt, will only work if you catch your yeast infection while it’s still fairly mild.

Yogurt is just one of the safe and natural home remedies for yeast infections. To learn more about yeast infection cures for both vaginal and male yeast infections, visit the author’s site at http://www.YourYeastInfection.com

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If you’ve been wondering if there could be a link between your decreasing oestrogen levels (if you’re on a drug like Tamoxifen) and increased incidences of thrush, then you may find the article below on Perimenopause useful.

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I don’t know about you, but to me the list of side effects from taking Tamoxifen just seems to keep on racking up and up.

Up until now I’ve avoided reading the list of POTENTIAL side effects on the packet, for fear of attributing every ache, pain and niggle to it, but it’s time to have a proper look.

Tamoxifen and Anxiety

Anxiety, and depression, is given as a side effect on the leaflet of my packet, but I’m not at all clear what normal anxiety is, which may sound a bit loopy.  The trouble is that after breast cancer there is stuff to worry about. Fears about recurrence,  problems with the medication, fears about it popping up somewhere else.  EEK.

I’ve also read about tamoxifen takers experiencing panic attacks – which is different to a general feeling of anxiety.

Right now my womb is being looked into and so I’m on tenterhooks whilst all that’s happening.  So is the churning in my stomach and the mild panic attacks over really inconsequential rubbish could be happening because of that, or is the anxiety genuinely out of proportion to the problem, and merely a chemical manifestation of the Tamoxifen? Who knows.

However, if you are dealing with anxiety, it can be useful to understand that it might arise from the Tamoxifen.  If the anxiety is not your fault, or out of your control, this means you can stop beating yourself up and trying to resolve it from within, and focus your energy on just dealing with the side effect, because you’re off the hook as far as being the cause goes.

Is The Anxiety Due To A Menopausal ‘Side Effect’ Caused By Taking Tamoxifen?

Another suggestion is that the anxiety is a hormonal, menopausal type response. In other words, taking Tamoxifen creates a menopausal situation in your body, and any anxiety is due to the menopause. However, do be careful if you decide to take stuff to help, because many of the supplements to help with the effects of the menopause are contraindicated for anyone taking tamoxifen.

Do Doctors And Onco’s Acknowledge A Link Between Tamoxifen And Anxiety?

Doctors are still people and so have differing opinions and prejudices.  When I asked my pharmacist if Tamoxifen was linked to anxiety she told me a definite NO.  When a new chemist shop opened in our village and I went to pick up my prescription, that pharmacist told me it was a well known side effect.

Whilst some patients report their doctor immediately made the link between Tamoxifen and anxiety, others were told it didn’t exist and sent away. Given the subjective nature of anxiety, this is perhaps understandable, although it doesn’t help much when you’re trying to deal with it.

What Could Anxiety Due To Tamoxifen Feel Like?

• Over-reacting to minor disturbances or being easily startled. I believe this can sneak up on you and you may need to delve deep and think back to before all of this started.  If you are jumping out of your skin just because the dog barks or the kids are shouting, would you have reacted like that before?
• A churning of adrenalin which won’t subside
• Insomnia
• Heart palpitations
• Feeling light headed and dizzy
• Muscle aches and pains
• Feeling too hot or cold
• A sense of foreboding – there’s something wrong@! But goodness knows what.
• Worrying about trivia.  By trivia I mean things like the bank wrongly applying charges to your account.  It’s usually sorted out, it’s a part of life and shouldn’t induce fear or mild panic.

Basically – are you sweating the small stuff?

Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be a definitive answer about how to distinguish justified anxiety, which understandably takes over from time to time, from a tamoxifen induced anxiety.  Neither is there a clear solution, although the following ideas did come up in my research:

• Take the tamoxifen at night so that some of the symptoms have dissipated by the morning
• Take 1mg of Diazepam to relieve the symptoms of anxiety
• Lexapro, Effexor and Celexa are antidepressant type drugs which can be taken with Tamoxifen.  There were a number of posters on the forums who reported Lexapro helped them
• Rescue Remedy is one of the Bach Flower Remedies.  This particular one is for comfort and reassurance and there’s also a night-time forumula
• Aromatherapy
• Split the dose in two and take it in the morning and the evening, instead of all in one go.
• See a Healer or Reiki therapist to help you deal with any negative energy which could, apparently, make it difficult for the positive thoughts to penetrate
• Use candles (not like that!). Turn off the lights, light some candles and have a long soak in the bath, or relax in bed.  A glass or two of wine helps as well, but the soothing light of the candles are the key.
• Relax your muscles, especially around the eyes.  This isn’t as easy as it sounds because tense muscles is a habit which needs to be reformed into relaxed muscles.  Eye muscles use loads of energy which makes the effort of relaxing worthwhile – if you get my drift

WARNING: The above is not medical advice and you should always check with your doctor before you do any of these.  If your doctor is prescribing something to help you with the anxiety, do remind them that you’re taking tamoxifen.

If you are looking for more information about Tamoxifen and anxiety then the articles and sites below may also be able to help and obviously, check with your oncologist to see if they can help you further.

If you are from the UK, then  you can click through on this link to Amazon and get to the UK site.

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This is a good explanation of breasts, and breast cancer, which you might find useful if you’re at the exploratory stage of being diagnosed.

US National Cancer Institute

And for the UK buddies, like me, boobs are the same in any continent and this is a good general overview without all the nasties. If you need to fill in the gaps left by your doctor, or which you missed because you’d stopped listening, then this should help.

by Sian Murphy

One of the first reactions of many people who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, or any other sort of cancer come to that, is to seek out dietary support to improve their chance of survival and reduce the risk of recurrence.

However, With So Much Information Available, Where Do You Start In The Hunt To Select…

The Perfect Breast Cancer Diet For You?

You could begin by considering the nature of your cancer. For instance, is it hormonally responsive, where the prime culprit is oestrogen. If you don’t have this information, then you should check with your doctor who should do tests to confirm this. If you are already taking drugs like Tamoxifen, western union india barbil Arimidex of other Aromatase inhibitors, then oestrogen is more than likely a key factor for you.

If oestrogen plays a part in your cancer, then any breast cancer diet you choose, should account for this factor. And it’s not just about breast cancer because oestrogen is implicated in many types of cancer for both men and women who are sufferering from melanomas, ovarian, prostrate and cancer of the colon.

How does your diet help to control oestrogen. Well, the following habits will all increase oestrogen…

• Diets high in fat and protein

• Being overweight caused by eating excessive calories

• Diets with a high sugar content

Fortunately, certain foods can help to reduce aggressive oestrogen levels by converting it to less aggressive forms;

Eating certain foods can block the action of some oestrogens; online amoxil having healthy intestinal bacterial flora can eliminate oestrogens, and sleeping better and eating natural compounds can also contribute to reducing oestrogen levels.

Oestrogen Trigger? Your breast cancer diet should include phyto-estrogens.

Professor Trevor Powles, former head of the breast cancer unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital is quite clear on the benefits of phyto-oestrogens and calls them the ‘anti-oestrogens’. Phyto-estrogens, which are found in pulses, are weaker than oestrogen and compete with it to help control the level and effect of oestrogen. Alarmingly, today only 2 per cent of our diet in the UK contains pulses. Let’s contrast this with 30 per cent back in 1900.

There are a three well known breast cancer diets, and for completeness in this article, I will just list them for you:

• Gerson’s Diet

• Gerson’s Diet

• The Rainbow Diet by Chris Woollams

You can check out the Rainbow Diet in Chris’s book which you can buy from Amazon. The others are well publicised on the internet, or you can get information from this blog.

As a breast cancer thriver, however, I believe there are more benefits to be gained from being relaxed about your diet and your lifestyle, than from fretting over getting it all perfect according to some book or diet guru.

If you continue your hunt to find a breast cancer diet for you, please remember that the best diet is the one where you chill out and focus on eating and doing what makes you feel fantastic inside and out.

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I always seem to be asking the question, ‘Can I take that with Tamoxifen’ and it’s ok for other prescription type drugs that everyone can go to a pharmaceutical reference about, but often I want to know about vitamins and supplements.

Whilst on the hunt to discover if I can take Milk Thistle with Tamoxifen, I came across this site which answered my question.

Just check out this link and pop it in your bookmarks:

Herbnet.com for help with your meds and supplements

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I bet you thought that one packet of Tamoxifen was much the same as the next.  So did I, and it seems a reasonable assumption.

However, I was at a pamper day laid on by the hospital for breast cancer patients when I overheard two women talking about the side effects of Tamoxifen.

The basic idea is that different brands of Tamoxifen might suit different people.  New one on me I must say.

This means that if you are taking Tamoxifen and are suffering from what I will call the more immediate side effects such as nausea and a downstairs which feels like a couple of bits of sandpaper buy cheap amoxil scraping together in your thong, that you might be better off on another brand.

If you’re getting on fine with the Tamoxifen you’re taking right now, then you may find this information useful in case your chemist decides to change supplier.

When I first heard this I thought it sounded like a pile of old hooey, but I get on fine with my Tamoxifen and so when the box changed colour I was mildly concerned, but expected the pharmacist to poo poo my worries.  However, she didn’t, and not only did she agree that women can react differently to the various brands, it seems to be well known amongst pharmacists.  Why do you think the doctors don’t say anything about it when patients are struggling with the side effects?

My local pharmacist (in the Hoo St Werburgh Chemist on Main Road in case you’re close by) was very helpful and went on to explain that the supply companies will try for the most cost effective drug, or the ones which are simply in stock.  If you need a particular brand, or want to try a new brand, then just ask and it can be sorted on a special order.  If they won’t do it then change pharmacists.

I have amoxil taken two brands of Tamoxifen and haven’t suffered nausea with either and they are made by Wockhardt UK Limited and MA Holder APS Limited.

Oh and for those of you fed up with a sandpaper fanny, this lovely pharmacist also recommended a product called SYLK.  You can buy it at boots and superdrug for about £10 (bit cheaper on Amazon) and even get it on prescription from your GP if you ask real nice, and it’s all natural ingredients extracted from Kiwi fruits.  And it works just great for me.

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Well did I?  How could that happen I wonder.

When I started on the avalanche which follows a diagnosis of breast cancer, or I guess, any type of illness with such a notorious title, I was just caught up in the tidal flow. It all seems to rush along, and suddenly there you are washed up on the sandy beach on the other side.

The storms over.

You’re alive, and so it seems a bit mingy to be moaning because you’re having trouble remembering names and seem to have lost the ability to count up how many children you have and arrive at the same total every day.

But it does matter.  It matters because it affects how you feel, and what you feel you can achieve out in the wider world.

How did I manage to reach this point in the process without fully appreciating what was going to happen after I stopped spending so much time at the hospital?   I think it all began back when I started applying my own interpretation western union india barahara on the information I was being fed.  So, when the consultant told me that “I was going to have to  get through a shitty year”, what  I heard was, “You’re going to get through buy amoxil online a shitty year AND THEN IT’S ALL GOING TO GO BACK TO NORMAL”.

But at least I heard that bit, because I suspect I blotted out most of what I was told, just in case I heard something I didn’t want to know.  You see, in Sian-World no-one dies of breast cancer any more, and secondary breast cancer happens on another planet and only to women who have clearly done something I haven’t.  Eaten too much KFC or drunk too much cheap lager.  Great fantasy for a lassie whose mother and aunt died of secondary breast cancer.  There, I’ve said it outloud.

And it sounds more plausible than my consipiracy theory – that all the staff at the cancer unit knew I would be tired, demotivated and have trouble concentrating (a goldfish can sustain a lucid thought for longer) but collaborated to keep it from me.

Yes that must be it.  A conspiracy – and I know that they all know because when I explained my frustrations at things not going back to normal they had that sort of no-brainer look about them and started making helpful comments about accepting I needed to adapt and change to the ‘new normal’.

And I’ll tell you another thing.  The internet’s wrong as well.  It must be, because when I was googling stuff today for the launch of my new business, this page popped up about how breast cancer leaves your boobies and wanders off to your bones, liver and other squashy vitals.  How odd that my stomach took a sudden lurch, because I know it’s just more lies.

Still at least I’ve cracked it.  If I never talk to any more doctors, open a magazine or look up anything on google – it will all be just grand.

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I’m trying to be careful about this blog becoming all about cancer, when it’s supposed to be about life.  I guess that for many of us however, cancer is a way of life, but I’m one of the lucky ones.  Diagnosed early and treated quickly, that’s me sorted – out the other end of the medical mill with 5 years of Tamoxifen and checkups to make sure it’s not come back (gulp), and ‘Bye, see you next time’.  And that’s good, don’t misunderstand me, because there are other scenarios which I’m glad I don’t have to deal with.

However, the system is now chucking me back and expecting me to do something.  Hey – I’M expecting me to do something.  And I do – loads of it.  Trouble is that it’s not very focused and it’s not particularly productive in the cash department.  I had a very interesting meeting this week with one of the Directors of Kleeneze, Michael Khatkar, and he unwittingly solved my problem.  He was talking about goal setting and how you need the motivation of a tangible and tummy curdling goal to kick start you into big action and keep you going.  Michael suggested sitting down with a blank piece of paper and writing out goals; how much monthly income was needed to get them; and to set a plan to achieve them in a realistic time scale.  I know that’s bog standard stuff to many, but I think he may have solved my problem.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, all my dreams and aspirations melted and were remoulded as staying alive, supporting my family and getting through the operation and treatment, etc.  After all, what use is a trip around the world, or a Jaccuzzi in the back parlour, when you’re too ill to enjoy it, or you’re dead?  The trouble is that’s where I still am and my goals continue to be about survival, not a bed wetting zoom towards a rip roaring life with the adrenalin tingling in the scalp.

Yes, every day is precious.  Yes, I’m very lucky. Yes, there’s more to life than money.  Trouble is that no one is served by me being poor and living out a humdrum day to day survival of appreciation that ‘it could all have been a lot worse‘ and ‘arn’t I lucky‘, ‘stop being greedy‘.  And, here’s the biggy – what’s the point of thrumping away to achieve buy amoxil a goal in 5-years time if I’m not going to be here?

Hell, western union india bankura I could step in front of a bus tomorrow, and it’s not going to veer off course just because I had a lump in my boob online amoxil – so why should I veer off course just because I had a lump in my boob?  Unless my biggest achievement from this point on is going to be surviving breast cancer, and I’m not sure that can sustain me for the next 40 years, then it’s time to get back to where I was with my goals, aspirations and accomplishments.  Oh, and to have a bit of fun for goodness sake.

Now, where’s that paper……

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