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FLOT chemotherapy? How many rounds?
Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: May 13 5:34pm | Replies (43)Comment receiving replies
My husband felt like he had a flu for the first cycle; overall very bad, with no real relief until the clinic gave him some fluids twice, as well as injections to help his body produce more white blood cells. He experienced cold sensitivity for a short time. The second time around, the sensitivity stuck around but he doesn’t feel as bad overall, just extremely fatigued. He needed to get the injections again; all of his blood counts got very low. His hair is falling out and is almost all gone, which has been hard for him. Up until that he didn’t look like he was fighting cancer. He also developed some sores all over his upper body and weird discoloration but the sores seem to be healing. He was fighting some sores trying to develop in his mouth during cycle 1 but they didn’t get bad and went away. He’s had a lot of chemo brain happening. We’re nervous going into cycle 3.
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Same experience as my husband here in New Zealand. 4 FLOT treatments, then surgery, then meant to follow up with another 4 FLOT treatments but only managed one..too hard after the Ivor Lewis surgery. The injections were brutal and made him quite sick, but the first few chemo sessions, he handled quite well..just very tired. He also lost all his hair and whiskers. Six months after the surgery now and he has lost 34 lbs and can’t manage to gain any weight…in fact has been diagnosed with anorexia as he struggles to eat much. We just want to get this under control…we are waiting…waiting …to see a surgeon..hopefully they will give him a Jtube…he’s not that keen but I feel he really needs it now. His hair has grown back, whiskers are back and he’s not feeling too bad in himself except fatigued with the weight loss. Hang in there and wishing you and your husband all the best, he was diagnosed with stage 2 esophagal cancer, has had three qtrs of his stomach removed and it’s just learning a new way of keeping well. It’s a long recovery after this surgery but he’s pleased hes had it. Xx