NICOTINE PATCH SURVEY

Have you ever been diagnosed with Breast Cancer? AND have you EVER used nicotine Patches?
A new study is being conducted right here and right now, sparked after a recent debate, which had experts and scientists alike, argue ferociously and controversially over a womans’ claim that the nicotine patches she used some ten years previously had caused her breast cancer.
The woman claimed that the cancerous lumps located in both her breasts were in the same positions in which she put her nicotine patches all those years before.
Challenged about the location, the woman demonstrated her claim by showing where her hand went comfortably and said that she put them there because she wanted them to be just below her bra line and out of sight.
The women had three types of breast cancers with two of these in her left breast. She claimed that as she is right handed more patches were put on her left side.
Her results from biopsies, ultrasound scans and mammograms demonstrated the precise locations of her cancerous lumps, which backed up her claims.

If you have had breast cancer and have used nicotine patches and would like to participate in this simple survey please take a few moments and contact the researcher with basic details of when you used them and approximately how long you used them for. In particular did your lumps correspond at all to the places where you used these patches?

If a YES answer applies to the next two questions tell us how long ago you used the patches.

Have you had or have you been diagnosed with breast cancer?
Have you ever used nicotine patches?
How long ago?
Less than one year before diagnosis
Two years ago
Three year ago
Four years ago
Five years ago
Six years ago
More than 6 years ago, please specify

With your input if any possible links are found, a new research could be conducted and may even help save lives.
This simple survey can be submitted online right here – right now.

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all you have to say is if you have been diagnosed with beast cancer and if you have used patches and approximately how long ago. That’s all! No personal information is being asked at all. If your answer is no to either of these questions then please do not reply.

Feel free to make any comments and include any additional and relevant information if you want to , but it is NOT a requirement for this survey
Send this page to your family and friends especially anybody you know who has been diagnosed with breast cancer even if you’re unsure if they may have used nicotine patches.

BENEFITS OF MEDITATION

Psychological Benefits of Meditation

Decreased anxiety and depression

Decreased irritability and moodiness

Improved learning ability and memory retention

Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation and zest for living

Increased happiness and better outlook on life

Physiological Benefits of Meditation

Drop in cholesterol levels

A decreased metabolic rate and lower heart rate

Lowered levels of cortisol and lactate (stress related chemicals)

Lowering of high blood pressure

Decreases the aging process

Spiritual Benefits of Meditation

Experience an inner sense of knowing and peace

Ability to connect with Universal Love and love of self

Ability to release negative feelings from the past and fear of the future

Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation

Increased happiness and better outlook on life

Reconstruction… to be or not to be

Women with breast cancer who are faced with a single or a double mastectomy also have a decision to make on reconstructive surgery, prosthesis or none of the above.
For me at aged 53 and being faced with this choice I chose reconstruction. I couldn’t bear (Bare?)being boobless and I didn’t fancy the prosthesis. I had read many funny and sometimes heartbreaking and embarrassing stories about them that persuaded me to choose the reconstruction.
I had mine done at the same time as the initial double mastectomy where expanders were intoduced and I travellled some 400 ks to get them inflated with saline every so often. (totally painless!)
I found the expanders quite uncomfortable and when I lay on my tummy in bed it felt like I was laying on a pair of tennis balls. They were an odd shape really and I felt I had to be careful what I wore if I opted to go braless at any time.
It was almost a year later when the expanders were removed and the new implants inserted. After the initial discomfort subsided I was relatively pleased with the outcome. They were a little bigger than my original boobs and this was some compensation for me.
I didn’t opt for new nipples as I felt I didn’t really need them. Plus I didn’t like the idea of a further operation and losing some cherished skin off my thigh . But it is an option for all women who face this choice. Besides every oiperation is a risk and I felt I had taken enough risks by now.
Still, it’s a choice and one I do not regret as such. I say no regrets, but of course there is always the regret of losing my breasts. That regret will stay with me for always, but I feel I have minimised them by making this particular decision.
Of course every woman needs to make her very own decisions based on only her self and her wanted outcomes in such a position.It’s not an easy choice for everyone as it was for me.
Should you like to read more about my journey through breast cancer you can by clicking here. All the very best in your personal journey and feel free to add a comment.

It’s just a joke…but

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer’s research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.