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Managing side effects
Share and learn about treatments and helpful hints for managing side effects of treatment.
Long term chemo related cognitive problems
- By chemo1 · New reply July 31, 2009
- 19 replies
- Does anyone other than me suffer long term cognitive problems from chemo? I am three years cancer free but still am having memory problems and forgetfullness! I could chalk some of it up to middle age ...
going out
- By dcal2u · New reply June 22, 2009
- 3 replies
- with my chemo they told me about my immune system being low with it. I notice everyone seems to be going here and there and I'm afraid to go to crowded places (even grocery store) for fear of geeting ...
medication after it's al over
- By dove1 · Posted April 21, 2009
- 0 replies
- OK so now I am 1 year out of the mastectomy almost a year after the end of chemo. I am taking Arimadex and there are some side effects. i have incredible pain in my hands,either from chemo or a combination ...
Chemo Brain Support Group
- By msloma2003 · New reply March 24, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hands for Hope Chemo Brain Support Group was founded June, 2008 in Clearwater, Florida in order to provide cancer patients/survivors and caregivers with peer support, educational material and raising ...
Weight Gain & Breast Cancer
- By PamShouse · Posted March 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Is there anyone else out there who was suddenly "thrown " into a post menopause state with the chemo.....Thus causing a great decrease in your metabolism rate....Then further effected with the addition ...
Tired of crying and feeling worthless
- By Nemomom4 · New reply January 1, 2009
- 5 replies
- Because I'm a cancer survivor, and everything I talk about below has been greatly magnified since my cancer treatments, I'm posting this here in the hopes that someone else who has had mental/cognitive ...
Article on chemo brain
- By Nemomom4 · New reply December 9, 2008
- 6 replies
- Ever since my diagnosis & treatment of nonHodgkins Lymphoma in 2003/04, I have been dealing with a nasty case of 'chemo brain': unable to think of words or finish sentences when speaking, not understanding ...
How to relieve joint pains?
- By sunshineray · New reply November 10, 2008
- 11 replies
- My mum has just completed her 2nd round of chemo. She's experiencing joint pains. Has anyone experience this before? What can be done to help relieve the pain ...
Finally, Hope for Treating Chemobrain
- By mymomisasurvivor · New reply September 18, 2008
- 3 replies
- Hi everyone, I am new to this forum, and I am writing at the suggestion of the great people at Joan's Legacy. My mother is a non-smokers lung cancer survivor, and has been in remission for three years ...
10+ years after chemo
- By kdbBEV · New reply August 25, 2008
- 3 replies
- I had ovarian cancer may 1998 stage IIIa. I had Carboplatin and Taxol. It has been over 10 years and I have been cancer free and I am very thankful. But the side effects are just now hitting me. I now ...
Gemzar side effects
- By johnenri · New reply August 1, 2008
- 5 replies
- Hello to all who know, through experience, about the side effects of Gemzar please drop me a note to tell me about your experience as I'm about to undergo a once a week for seven straight weeks treatment ...
Feels like there's "Something" stuck in the chest!
- By sunshineray · New reply July 14, 2008
- 5 replies
- My mum who's 68 was diagnosed with Limited SCLC in May'08. She's been through 3 rounds of Chemo - Cisplatin and Etoposide (with 3 more rounds to go) and 3 sessions of radiotherapy (which started this ...
Avistan and Gemzar
- By Eve · New reply June 12, 2008
- 7 replies
- I am to start both Avistan and Gemzar this next Thur. I have had 3 l/1 yrs. of chemo, radiation, etc. and now am facing this. Is anyone taking both of these and could you please share with me the side ...
Should One Give Up?
- By Chris-Reed · New reply May 22, 2008
- 11 replies
- I wonder at which point in time should God, or whoever is in charge, just quit screwing around with me and pull the trigger. Between the age of 6 and 22, I've had cancer surgery on my brain, back, arms ...
Neuroblastoma
- By Cherime · New reply February 11, 2008
- 2 replies
- My 5 years old son was Diagnosed of Neuroblastoma, stage 4. He was given 17th salvage chemo. treatment. His last treatment was last June 2007. Now according to His MRI and blood tests, no tumor or neuroblastoma ...
Mesothelioma
- By Russell1 · Posted November 22, 2007
- 0 replies
- I am currently in hospice with this affliction. Any helpful advice regarding pain management and survival would be appreciated. I currently have much pain in and around my mid-section, and right lung ...
Fatigue
- By mmonday · New reply November 16, 2007
- 5 replies
- My mom has breast cancer and is having chemotherapy. She is so tired all the time and hasn't been able to work. I keep bugging her to tell her doctor how tired she is but she says that she doesn't want ...
