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Good morning! Thank you for responding. Almost identical story, I just met with my medical oncologist yesterday at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I am staged at 2b, 1.5 cm of my 5.5 cm mass was cancerous with one lymph node involvement. The surgery was really a breeze to be honest. I had a distal pancreateomy/splenectomy and gallbladder removal on May 29. My surgeon was amazing, I had zero problems, was discharged within 3 days and back walking 3-5 miles per day within a week. My surgeon was convinced the tumor was non-cancerous. Oh well, yes, I would love to hear about your side effects on the chemo. For instance, my treatment will be Monday with disconnection of pump on Wednesdays (I believe my daughter, an RN, will be able to do this as opposed to going back to MSK), how many days after your treatment did you feel awful! Also, were you on any supplements and did you get accupuncture? Any insight would be much appreciated. I am so happy that you are doing well!!!
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So sorry to hear about your diagnosis. my surgical experience was similar to yours.
The first chem infusion was the worst. I’m not sure if they give limited supplements to assess how you react. I had my chemo on Friday and went back rxon Sunday to have it disconnected and to have a Neulasta (which raises your white blood cell counts installed on my arm (it is a shot that cannot be administered until 46 hours after chemo. I highly recommended mend the Neulasta to as it helps your immune system and prevents Neutropnia during the six months of chemo.
I worked throughout my chemo, with the exception of the day of and Monday after. It became more difficult as it went on as side effects are cumulative.
I had pretty difficult nausea which resulted in aversion to eating and pretty severe weight loss. It was actually call chemo driven anorexia. Had pre-treatment drugs when I arrived for chemo, which I believe is standard. As my post chemo nausea was pretty severe. My oncologist added Olanzpine (an anti psychotic med that helps to increase your appetite. It worked very well for me. I am going to continue on a separate post S I have to step away for a bit.