Red devil
Hello I’ve just completed 12 rounds of chemotherapy Paclitaxel weekly with carboplatin combined every four weeks i have coped really well but am now about to start 2 drugs every 2 weeks for four trea...
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The thing I noticed with my heart was day 4-5 after each AC I would have multiple extra beats that just felt so uncomfortable. And then my heart rate, which was always so slow at rest because I was quite fit, just went up 20 bpm and stayed there. My ECGs before treatment would be normal then off it would go again. I had one night in hospital on a monitor to check the rhythm, saw a cardiologist and had an echo. I was a nurse and specialised in coronary care so I was very conscious of what was going on, and because I exercise a lot I was scared of losing that.
It has settled down well now and while I am taking medication until my chemo is finished and I have another review, Dr hopes I can go off it then.
I don’t google but I did read up on the effects of the chemo drugs and scared myself witless. Especially regarding heart effects that can happen further down the track. I have just had to accept that the risk of bc killing me is far higher than the risk of the chemo damage killing me. And hopefully it might save me instead. But still, I have my days where I grieve and I guess everyone does. I took good care of my health and did everything right and it made no difference when it came to getting cancer.
I am a serious over thinker and fairly anxious which are personality traits that don’t serve me well during this time 😣.