Hi, my mum is currently going through treatment for breast cancer. She is 68 and initially had 12 weekly sessions of chemo + immunotherapy and had now moved into 3 weekly cycles of chemotherapy which should span 4 sessions. Since moving into the 3 weekly cycles she has really struggled - after the first session she ended up in hospital having developed sepsis and had to have a blood transfusion and a few different antibiotics (which had to be given to her slowly as she developed an allergic rash). She came out of hospital after 9 days and around 2 weeks later then had her next chemo session. Since then she has really been hit by fatigue and is struggling to eat. She is still drinking but this has become difficult for her. She often throws up (and does have anti sickness tablets that she takes if she feels nausea) and gets bad wind. She also heaves quite a lot on tablets and food in general.She doesn’t have a temperature and my dad monitors that regularly. We encourage her to eat little and often.
What we are struggling with is understanding if this is normal for cancer treatment? We are worried about things like anaemia ( as she has this whilst she was in hospital prior to the blood transfusion). She has appointments with her doctors at the end of next week but can we/ should we be asking to get her checked out sooner?
