Today is Day 8 of my first cycle of R-CHOP. I am scheduled to have 3-4 cycles of this treatment, as my DLBCL is Stage 1A.
I have been doing everything they tell me to support my treatment at home and have had little side effects. The ones that I have had have been easily managed. Disabling constipation was the worst (still recovering from the bodily trauma of that one) and fatigue being the other one from the injections. Fatigue is a foreign concept to me, and I was okay on the 1st one. Yesterday was the 2nd and I had to take a full rest day and drink more water than usual (3.4 litres was my intake), and because of that, I believe, I felt well at the end of today and was able to take my usual 30 minute walk at lunchtime. Today was injection 3, and so far I am not fatigued. I really do think that my healthy diet and fluid intake are helping me so far and I will continue to do so. Prior to injections, I had not been sleeping well, so it was great that I got so much good sleep the past two nights. I was even able to sleep in yesterday morning a little, a first! By paying attention to my body, what's happening, and what it needs, has been super helpful. I like being involved in my medical care.
Hi again KotC_Gorey ….. taking control of the areas you can control helps a lot….. fluid intake and keeping active are a few of the main tools we have available to help this journey.
Constipation is an ever present challenge….. I was advised to take one sachet of Laxedo every day throughout my main 4 months treatments and on the whole it worked, only having one constipation episode but that was overcome by taking 6-8 sachets over 14 hours. I also had one significant diarrhea episode and this required some meds to solve this one.
You are doing great.
