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How can I fix constipation after 1st chemo?

Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Jun 19 8:22am | Replies (30)

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@mommacandy

oh i can so relate!!! i too ended up in ER for basically same reasons except they had told me if i hadn't passed gas in 12 hours to go to ER...so i did...except i ended up being admitted to the hospital for a couple of days...i was so miserable..
i eat LOTS of blueberries...i'm talking sometimes a quart a day...LOTS of gatorade...i'm talking at least half a gal a day...thats how i cope...oh and acupuncture has helped me with ALL my GI symptoms...nausea vomiting constipation heartburn...i wish i'd tried it before my first chemo...but .i did before my second

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Thank you so much for sharing- I will get gaterode and blueberries today. Can you share what treatment you received while at the hospital? I went to the ER
with the ambulance, on a Sunday afternoon, the waiting room was full, waited 3 hrs to get to the triage, waited another hour to see a resident doctor, without my husband as advocate I would
have been lost. I was aware there were other patients in same agony or more.
I did not come with blankets, another symptom of cancer, chills, shivering,
the ER only had thin bed sheets, I had 6 on me, did not do any good. A relative
came by and brought me warm blankets. That finally did the trick. I have3 blankets now in the car. I know now what I can be faced with. Thank you
for checking the forum and helping others.