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Endometrial Stage III Cancer Diagnosis
Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Mar 28 5:24pm | Replies (50)Comment receiving replies
Oh, do I know how you feel. Monday was my last day of 5 weeks of external. And, am so glad not to be forced into drinking so much water. I have always drank more water at night than during the day while working. It was a struggle the whole 5 weeks for me. If I drank enough than they would be off and was over full by time they called me in. Had to start wearing poise pads, than they started asking me how long I had the problem and what a small bladder I had. What a experience, told them the problem better go away once completed. Is better but not 100% yet since Monday. Been awake in middle of night few nights since. But, the diarrhea the last week or so was what bothered me the most. However, started drinking Kombucha last 3 days now and has seemed to remove diarrhea, at least I think so. Tomorrow first of 2 brachy for this coming week. Hoping goes well. Following Monday 1 st of the last 3 chemo 3 weeks apart. Chin up, it is a journey.
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Thank you for sharing your experience! I don't feel so alone in all of this when people share so this site has been very therapeutic for me! Thank you everyone who have responded!
Last week went better with filling my bladder. The Liquid IV is really helping so they have been happy. They never tell me how full my bladder is but they have treated me everytime!
I did make a mistake the one day and forgot to eat breakfast. I figure the almond milk in my cereal also helps fill my bladder so I quickly ate breakfast in my 30 minute window of water drinking. I felt like I was going to explode during treatment and they did say my bladder was 105% full. They said any fuller and they would have had to have me go let some out. I won't make that mistake again!
The difficult part now is keeping my weight up. The first week I gained 6 pounds from chemo on Monday to my Dr. visit on Wednesday. I said it must be all the water. This week I lost 9 pounds which the nurse was upset with at first but the dietitian said because of the previous week it was just a 3 pound loss. She said she is not worried but it can't happen this week.
I eat 6 small meals and feel like I can't possibly eat any more than I am. Any tips would be great! It's also hard to eat now that my stools are softer! Soon they say it will be diarrhea. Oh joy. I do have Imodium ready when needed!