started my chemo today?

Question

if this is what i am going to feel like every day i don,t want it.i want to go out and enjoy my self while i can,question is shall i stop or should i get pissed every day ,i have only 6 months left

thanks to all of you for your answers i will have to a good think on what to do,you are all friends i did not know i have,thank you

Answer 1

I would enjoy myself every second...But don't get too drunk, as you could fall over and then have no time left at all. But I'm no medical expert, ask if you can drink with the medication. But do stick with it I have many friends who have and 2 years on, are still here and very well.

Answer 2

I agree with dog lover. If you have 6 months of treatment, well that sucks but I had 4 months or thereabouts and then another year of less toxic stuff. If you have been given a 6 month survival probability, a second opinion would be useful.

Also - why not tell people what you are on and how you are hurting? With the info you provided, we can say "oh you poor thing" but if you added some details some of us might be able make some useful suggestions.

For instance I vomited once on chemo - my first round, then I got wise and took all those drugs exactly as prescribed. There are others here who have been through chemo and are willing to offer suggestions - if there is something to work with.

In any event, best wishes to you.

Answer 3

In 2005, my mother in law was diagnosed with a recurrent cervical cancer she had when she was younger and she is now in her mid 70s. She underwent chemo even though she did not feel up to it and she was also given 6 months to go. (Am I wrong or is this the standard answers doctors give to cancer patient when they do not know the answer?)
Anyway, while she underwent the chemo, I also introduced her to the Riovida Tri factor juice (which contains Transfer Factor as mentioned by Alvin W in this link). She said taking Riovida Tri Factor helped in her coping with the chemo. That was a year and a half ago and since then she been back to the doctors for her check up and was told that her condition has improved and the cancer is in remission. All I can said as well is that it is important to stay positive in your mind as it is the negativity you have within you that will eat you away quickly. Even a healthy person with negative thoughts can be detrimental to their own health ( I know becos I was that person 20 years ago and if not for the positive support I received, I would not be writing to you today). So to make a long story short, enjoy everyday as it comes, in the meantime, check out the Riovida Transfer Factor, perhaps it may help you too.

Answer 4

This may sound odd, but it's actually a good sign that the chemo is making you feel like sh*t; that means it is working! Remember, the way most chemo is supposed to work is that it poisons the (rapid metabolizing) cancer cells faster than it poisons their "host"....(you!).

Before you get pissed EVERY day, I would check with your oncologist or GP whether alcohol will inhibit the action of the chemo! You don't want to feel like double crap because you are hung over as well as chemo-ed and then have it not help!

When you get through this (and the chances are VERY good you will, these days) you can drink as much as you like. I think there's even a law that says a landlord HAS to serve you a Snakebite & Black if you are a cancer survivor and you ask for it!

Best wishes!

Answer 5

Only you can decide if you want to continue your chemo. I worked severals years as a nurse in a service of oncology. I can understand that you want to stop because it is very hard such treatment. When you are better after the first chemo you must start the second and there we go again : tireness, vomiting,nausea etc. The doctor said to you that you have only 6 months left. Maybe he said right, maybe if you are a battler, who knows what can happen. I saw people who were very sick but they didn't gave up. Some are still there others are gone. But once again only you can decide. Personnaly I have a degenerative evolutive neurologic disease since 1994. Some days are very hard but if there are some good ones I notice that live is worth to be lived. Take the decission who seems right for you and everybody wil respect it.

Answer 6

Really tricky one. But then you knew that didn't you?! The big big question is will continuing with the chemo improve your life expectancy significantly enough to warrant putting up with effects? My dad has been battling prostate cancer for a while now and has decided that, as the chemo made him feel so terrible, he's going to stop the treatment. His view is that he'd rather have five years and enjoy them than have maybe seven years and feel rotten for most of it.

I don't mean to sound patronising here (even though I probably will!) but I really will be thinking of you this Christmas and even though you may feel at the lowest of the low at the moment I'd bet that every one who reads this will be rooting for you. All the best.

Answer 7

You are getting many different answers becuase your question is not clear weather you have 6 months of treatment or if you have 6 months to live...

if you have six months of treatment YOU HAVE TO STICK WITH IT you can do it it will be tough but well worth it, also thing may get better because the body generally has a harsher reaction to it the first time

If you have 6 months to live get a 2nd 3rd and 4th opinion that would get you a less harsh treatment with a better prognosis rate weather it be experimental or clinical trial..there is always hope..

Sorry I can not give you a straight out answer as I do not know a very main point in your question.

BEST OF LUCK!

Answer 8

Honestly, it would depend on what the prognosis was. My mom and a couple aunts and uncles have died from lung cancer and they all went through chemo and every one of them said before they died that if they had it to do over, they would never have had the chemo done. Please don't get discouraged, though. It does help even though you feel like crap. Just think of it this way....you want to go out and enjoy yourself, but you can't when you're dead and taking chemo will hopefully prevent that so that one day you CAN go out and enjoy yourself again. Good Luck!!!

Answer 9

My Dad had radiotherapy 5 days a week for 12 weeks at the same time he had chemo through a pic line 24/7 for the same amount of time so he felt double what you are feeling, he spent most of the time in bed because he was too weak to do anything, he has now finished the treatment, even though he gets tired very easily still but it has prolonged his life. he is 73. It must be very hard for you, but hang on in there, it will get better for you. Believe in yourself, you can get through this and will. Blessings and love to you.

Answer 10

I am having chemo to.

After my first one I felt dreadful as well, I thought if this is how I am going to feel for 6 months of chemo then the cancer can have me now!!! However it only lasted 48 hours then I felt much better and the other 2 cycles have not affected me as bad................I even have returned to work.

Don't give up the chemo is worth it in the long run.

Answer 11

I had chemo for breast cancer. I felt like crap and I was worried that this would be my life. My doctor assured me that I would feel better. If I didn't I couldn't have done that. It was awful. If I was given a short term to live, I might have decided not to have the chemo. I don't know. I thought the chemo would kill me and I hardly had any energy besides many other awful side effects. What ever you decide, I support you in what you do. Surround yourself with those people who matter in your life.