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Chemo: What Tips & Tricks Helped you Through?

Cancer | Last Active: Sep 15, 2023 | Replies (15)

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The fatigue is worse than I expected. There are so many side effects that I’m struggling with, as I’m sure most chemo patients experience. Constant nausea, diarrhea, chills, hot/cold flashes, muscle cramps, tingling in feet/hands, so much discomfort. I don’t want to complain or focus on my problems. I’m just looking for tips and tricks people have found.

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Geez, I think I just had a flashback reading that. I know that a lot of chemo causes these awful side effects. There are a lot of great ideas here already but here are mine. The best nausea medicine I had was a cream from the compounding pharmacy. Called magic 4. Northwest compounding pharmacy has agreed to share the recipe with doctors. The pills did not work at all for me other than the compazine helped me sleep through the worst of it. The hot/cold flashes have unfortunately become a part of my life because of the estrogen loss. They become a little less bothersome. You absolutely need to tell your oncologist about the tingling in hands and feet so that if there is treatment decisions that can me made to stop further damage to those peripheral nerves, those decisions can come sooner than later. Finally, one of the hardest things is the fatigue, it hit me like a speeding train when it started, please allow yourself to rest. Don’t be afraid to ask for help with all the things that don’t require your personal attention. Do you have family with you to help?