Re stopping Chemotherapy

FormerMember
FormerMember
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I am now on my way to my 5th cycle of Chemotherapy I have been really struggling with side effects this time. 
I am seriously considering stopping my treatment and just wondered if anyone else decided to stop treatment early and actually did.

I have had friends say to me that I have to go on but I don’t think they understand how treatment is affecting me right now, and I don’t really expect them to.

I find myself getting really frustrated and short with my friends at times and am not usually like this.

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    The end sessions of chemo suck - I was like you in 2008 - felt awful but you have to carry on - we are all behind you - I have just been diagnosed with lymphoma so I’m going to be in the shape as you soon - your friends understand more than you now - sending you a hug x

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to FormerMember

    Thank you for your reply,

    I’m, sorry to hear you have to go through it all again.

    I wish you all the best with your treatment x

  • Hello Kits

    So sorry to hear what you are going through. I felt I needed to respond. My husband had terminal bile duct cancer and was given 6 months and possibly up to 12 months with chemo. I didn't want him to have chemo because it destroyed my grand daughters body but I never told him I didn't want him to have it. It was his cancer, his body, his choice. I list him in September and for a while I was really angry because the chemo kept making him Ill and getting sepsis. So he had a lot of time in hospital and because of covid I wasn't allowed d to be with him. I did get him home for 4 weeks brfire he spent his last two weeks in hospice and I could have time with him. I was angry because the chemo kept is apart and made him more ill than the cancer and we knew it wasn't going to change his outcome. Even though I feel like that if I had to do it all again still wouldn't tell him what he should do, just as I would want everyone to respect my wishes if it was my body. So all I can say to you is, its your body, your choice nobody else's and other people should respect that 

    Love and hugs to you. Xxxx

    Chris

    The last item out of Pandora's box was HOPE
  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to Bears sweetie

    Thank you for your reply Chris, I am so sorry to hear you lost your husband not too long ago and I can understand your anger with regards to not being able to see him when he was in hospital because of Covid. It must have been awful. I am often so concerned about what to write on here as I don’t want to scare others but appreciate your honesty when you say how the chemo destroyed your granddaughters body and made your husband so ill. I can remember my mum saying to me when she was terminal that for her it was her quality of life and not the quantity that she wanted and I respected that. As you said a persons cancer is their own, I have felt so ill after my last cycle and chemotherapy will not be the end of this journey for me. I also have radiotherapy and drug therapy to come. I have two more cycles to go but have been so bad since my last cycle that I really do feel that I can’t continue and I hope those around me can respect that.

    Thank you xxxx