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ddon
6 years agoMember
AC affecting the heart?
I know long term chemo can affect the heart but has anyone felt it during treatment? I have had one session and my resting heart rate has gone up 20 bpm and hasn’t come down. I was so nauseated and ti...
lrb_03
6 years agoMember
Hi @ddon. Fairly quickly after my first chemo, I developed what I'd probably call an activity intolerance. My resting heart went up a little, but almost any activity such as walking a short distance (<50m) would elevate my heartrate quite dramatically. Before my second chemo, when I had my oncologist appointment, I walked from the waiting area, was weighed before the blood pressure cuff was put on my arm, and when they put tgge probe on my finger and got a reading, mr HR was 120 beats per minute. That remained my pattern. I'm now under the care of a cardiologist, and take a beta blocker to control it, but more than 4 years out from chemo, none of the echocardiogram's that I've had have indicated any heart damage
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