Do you have a personal perspective on chemotherapy

[Angelina Ballerina]

I know someone who is starting chemotherapy and I know there are many symptoms. Please someone tell me who has had an experience, don't just copy and paste an article. I know how to find that.
Just tell me about the experience and how the doctors worked with you or your family member and let me know a little more information please. Thank you

[Tarkarri]

There are hundreds of forms of cancer and many forms of chemotherapy are used to treat these.

Every patient has a different experience of drugs used, rate they are used at, number of times administered and side effects suffered.

Your friends oncologist is in the best position to advise which side effects they are likelyl to suffer and what they can offer to minimise this.

Otherwise all most of us can tell you is what you can find on any web site.

Personally, it made me tired and a bit cranky, my hair fell out - almost everywhere (had enough left on arm for it to hurt when they took off the tape holding IV in place after chemo treatment), food tasted funny, I didn't have nausea, just indigestion, prone to infection, prone to sunburn....