Cancer Treatment Options Forum - June 29th, 2011 - 2 Comments
Ladies who have/had ovarian cancer and chemo…help me if you can?
I have just recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer (stage 3) and I am preparing for surgery. Thats not what bothers me though…its the chemo afterwards. Alot of my fears about chemo come from some real horror stories I have heard about how the chemo actually makes you sicker than the cancer itself. I expect it to be a long, hard and painful road but I would like to hear personnal experiences from people who have been in my shoes. What side effects did you experience and was it as bad as it is made out to be?
I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer 9/01, I had surgery, stage 3, w/tumor attached to colon, had to have colostomy, more surgery 5/02, reversing colostomy, with more disease found removed affected parts. Had chemo for 5 years, prob. 6 diff. chemos, the first taxol & carbo. was probably the worst, none was easy, but my oncol. gave meds for nausea, I had that feeling, but never to vomiting extent. nothing tasted like eating or drinking. During this time I exercised at the Cancer Foundation for Life, and it made me much stronger, then I took femara, an oral drug, for 2 years. Now my CA125 is 743 and I am again on Taxol, one day a week for 3 wks., then a week off, and start again, this is a smaller dose than once every 3 wks, I have some nausea but that is o.k. I believe God and my excellent oncologists are the reason for my 7 yrs. and I am praying for more. I was 66 when 1st diagnosed. If I can be of assistance anyway you can e-mail me at jolinepr@suddenlink.net. Sincerely
I am scared to be diagnosed with tongue cancer, as I am most likely getting a biopsy to see what this lump on my right side of the tongue is. I read up, and it seems like the syptoms of Tongue Cancer. I am only 14. But my teacher, who had cancer, she did chemo and she said, every evening at 6 pm she would vomit and felt sick. She did this for a while, but then the day she wanted ever so badly came. She was cured
Edit: My teacher didn’t have ovarian cancer though; I believe it was something else; I’m not quite sure though sorry
With cancer you have to look at it positivly; things happen for a reason. I wish you best of luck and be strong