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People may have stopped practising and let their HCPC registration lapse for a wide range of reasons, but we would love to welcome them back!
We recommend holding off opticians’ checks until 6 weeks after the surgery or when the bubble has gone (whichever is latest).
We carry out treatment as carefully as possible to reduce the chances of this.
We would advise taking someone to the clinic with you, to help remember what has been said.
We suggest you try to eat a well-balanced, healthy diet and drink plenty of fluids during your course of radiotherapy, as this may help your body to cope
You will need to take off all of your jewellery, which we advise you to leave at home or ask a relative to take home for safe keeping.
At first, we will help support you to control your blood glucose levels through dietary changes and physical activity.
There is a lot of information which we have tried to simplify by grouping into sections.
We recommend that you keep your fingernails short and clean to avoid the risk of damaging the surface of your eye.
At Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we use Bulkamid® which is a polymer gel that is easily accepted by the body.
To avoid possible infection, we ask that the port-a-cath is not used for the first 7 days after insertion.
Sometime they can go on to form larger crystals which we call kidney stones.
We advise you to let your car insurance company know that you have had an operation. Will the operation affect my sex life?
Exercise We know that exercise and keeping active can improve fatigue symptoms and recovery from cancer treatments.
To help us decide how to treat the cancer it is very important that we get the necessary information about the cancer and the rest of your body.
Both codeine and tramadol can make you feel light headed, nauseated (feeling sick) or constipated so we only give it to you if your pain is not controlled
We hope that ISC will improve your confidence and quality of life.
Please note we are unable to give results out over the phone. Colposcopy Advice Line Tel: 0300 422 2385 This is an answerphone service.
Further information is readily available online, we would recommend beginning with: Macmillan Cancer Support Tel: 0808 808 0000 Website: www.macmillan.org.uk