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RiotAtMidnight
5 years agoMember
The most newbie question ever?
I’ve searched and honestly cannot find an answer to this in factsheets or anywhere else... what does chemo feel like when it’s being administered? Is it cold? Room temperature? Do you not really notic...
Cath62
5 years agoMember
Hi @RiotAtMidnight, visualisation is great. I imagined the chemo being a golden light that destroyed only cancer cells and nothing else. 🌈. I use to drink loads of water the day before and also on the day and after. Flushing it out of my body. I walked on chemo days too usually before it. I was given steroids as anti rejection of the chemo drugs and also anti nausea meds before the chemo. The steroids were given a few times snd then once they knew I could handle it, they stopped it. The sterio may me speed up for 2 or 3 days and then I would crash. Fatigue is a killer but exercise helped me with that. Fatigue is not tiredness. It is like energy depletion. I got through half my treatment with either my son or husband coming with me and then covid interrupted that. The nurses were great and I got there in the end. I was treated in The Wesley in Brisbane and I rang this bell loudly when I finished this part of my treatment. I was alone at the end because of covid but a nurse captured the moment for me.