Hi all, I'm new here after a recent diagnosis of triple negative breast cancer. Luckily it was detected before it spread to my lymph nodes. Chemo to start asap and then lumpectomy followed by radiotherapy. I am a single mum with 3 teenagers, 2 of them are autistic and I am their only carer.
it's all happened so fast, and I need to know how bad the chemo is going to get because I need to put things in place for my children if I'm going to be incapacitated for week/months, any advice about what yk expect, would be great thank you xxx
Hi Aloha
Welcome to the forum, I'm Daisy53 one of the Community Champions on this forum. I'm sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. Everybody reacts differently to chemo so it's hard to say how bad things might get for you during chemo. Some people get little or no side effects, others get bad side effects. You will be given various medications to help deal with any side effects you may have and two phone numbers to ring, the number of the chemo unit where you will have your chemo and an emergency number of out of hours in case you need to contact the hospital between treatments.
When I had treatment for triple negative over four years ago, I had very few side effects, the worst one was fatigue. I managed to get out and about most days and I rested on the days I needed to.
The most common side effects are nausea and fatigue. What can help with nausea is drinking plenty of fluids throughout the day and taking the medication they will give you if you need to.
Wishing you the best of luck with your treatment and hopefully the side effects will be kind to you.
Best wishes
Daisy53
