Hello everyone!

Hi RCFlyer

Welcome to the forum . I am going to let others with experience address the chemotherapy aspect but I just want to say it’s great your getting your fitness up . Lots of research coming through that it aids recovery and tolerance . Even moderate activity.

Take care ,

Court

Hi RCFlyerand a warm welcome from me too. Do you know what chemo you’ll be having? Unfortunately chemo can have a lot of side effects but everyone has an individual experience of it and any side effects are well managed by the oncology team. I’ve attached a link to a post that we started about chemo, it’s unlikely that you’d suffer all the side effects but sometimes it’s reassuring just to know what’s normal?

https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/bowel-colon-rectum-cancer-forum/f/general/221768/chemo-care-top-tips--

Hope the chemo goes well and it would be great if you could share your experience with others too

Take care

Karen x

Hi Kareno62,

Thank you for responding to my post.

I will be having an infusion of Xelox, followed by a two week course of capecitabine, on a three week cycle.

My main fear is the possuble sickness/vomiting. It's just something I have never dealt with at all well. However, reading some of the posts on the discussion board, it seems that there are a number of ways of controlling this.

Thank you court.

I'm so glad I joined this group. The collective knowledge an experience on hear is amazing, and everyone is so sympathetic and kind.

You take care.