Hi people, hope your all doing well as you can! Just thought I'd let you know of my horrible experience with chemo over the last few weeks, but don't want to scare anyone that is taking it, because it only happen to 1/100 people-and i was either the 1 or the 100!! Just want to make you all aware that while you are undergoing treatment it is wise to do your blood pressure otherwise you can suffer with something called a 'hypertensive crisis', makes you life threatningly ill, your blood pressure creeps up and up, then you suffer cracking headaches (nothing shifts it) while being nauseated and constantly vomit, even when you haven't got anything else to sick up!! The light hurts your eyes, your breathless and you swell up, and feel basically like crap and on your way out, I had to go to the NHS hospital, (my health insurance is paying for my private care and chemo) but i ended up at Royal Berks while my oncologist was at a kidney cancer conference! They did not really have a clue what was wrong with me at the nhs hosp due to lack of notes and scans so had to rely on what i was tellin them, but felt to ill to even speak! Had various test, they thought i had viral meningitus at the time so done a lumber puncture, too ill to even flinch, but it was painful! Had ct scan-clear, chest x.ray said clear but something like 'blunting' Anyway this went on for a week, by then I'd transferred to private hospital, was very anaemic in every way, given 2 units of blood to give me a new lease of life for a while to get me back in tip top condition ready for something else my oncologist said he had up his sleeve! That was my week that was!!! home now
