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Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Mar 4, 2023 | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
Replies to "Hi mary64300, did you receive further treatment per your oncologists recommendations? I also have Stage3-4 grade..."
Everybody has different experiences with chemo. I am in remission 2 years out from 6 applications of carboplatin and taxol. (Stage 2B) I didn't have too much trouble, But I just relaxed into it and didn't push myself lol.
BUT an uncommon side effect of platinum treatment they don't mention much is possible damage to your hearing. It seems to be more likely if you already have imperfect hearing. (Me, but little enough that I didn't have hearing aids.) And it's supposed to be more likely with cisplatin, But it happened to me with Carbo. I didn't have any idea it might be a side effect; just thought my ears were continually plugged up with gunk. (They felt "full") So I never mentioned it to the oncologist. Found out the truth after chemotherapy was all over.
I don't know if they would have changed anything in the protocol even if they had known, but they might have. (They changed from taxol to another variant (or was it the other way around, the details are fading) when I began to show signs of neuropathy.)
Good luck to you! Try to keep moving, even if it's just gently walking. I didn't for a while and felt much better once I started just walking around the house for 10-15+ minutes at a time. (I was a couch potato before also.)