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Starting chemo for ovarian cancer for the second time.
Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Jan 28 9:26am | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
I’m so sorry this happened to you. I hope you’re feeling better now.
I’m doing better than I was a few days ago. Since my last writing, I developed neutropenic fever and was hospitalized for 3 days. I’m home now but still feel so weak. And everything tastes like wet cardboard. It’s so jarringly unexpected to have new side effects to something you thought you could tolerate just fine.
I hope you don’t have to stop carboplatin for good! My second infusion will be on the 9th.
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Sorry to hear that, but glad that you're improving. Chemo seems to be full of unpleasant surprises.
They're planning to try carboplatin on me again the next round, but with a desensitization protocol (slower, with gradually increasing amounts). Apparently it works for most people. Anaphylaxis wasn't cool, so I hope that doesn't happen again.