Starting treatment

Hi Anne

I start my treatment tomorrow and one of my treatment is Paclitaxel along with carboplatin, I can't obviously give you the side effects yet and in any case everyone reacts differently but you can refer on this site under treatments-anddrugs/paciltaxel-and-carb0platin

Your Oncologist should have given him an information sheet, I got mine yesterday at the pre appointment interview, another big tip ask if he needs a blood test before the treatment as I found out yesterday and had to rush to the Hospital to have one, you have to have one before evry treatment session

Hope this helps

Tony

Hi

My Husband has just finished 5 weeks of chemo radiotherapy, he had the same chemo, which was once a week for the 5 weeks.  He has also had 2 cycles of cistaplatin, Everyone is different and reacts differently, but overall he managed really well. Some nausea and tiredness, some pain due to the radiotherapy, but all was controlled well with medication. 
we were expecting a lot worse.

Hope everything goes well for you both too.

T

Thanks for the reply sounds exactly the same except I am having 2 chemo sessions prior to the start of the 5week course of RT and chemo 

Tony

Many thanks Tony he's had the info sheet and already had his bloods done. I will have a look at the site . Hope you keep strong and have a positive outcome.

Anne

Hi

yes his treatment started in august. He also had the 2 cycles of chemo before the 5 week treatment.   Scan end of December then possible surgery. Well that’s the plan. 
he is T2, N2, M0.

T

Hi T 

Bill can only have the chemo as he's only just finished treatment for lung cancer. He was fine on the radiotherapy last time. But chemo wasted him. Hope it's a good outcome for your husband. Take care Anne

Hi Anne 

I am sorry to read that your husband has OC diagnosis so quickly on top of a previous lung cancer, have you been told whether the OC is independent or a secondary of the lung cancer?

There seems to be a lot of different treatments at the moment for OC, and thankfully the Chemo/ targeted treatment my husband has, doesn't cause him too much of a problem but then everyone is different and I hope that they will find the right mix of treatment for your husband and he copes better with this than the last experience. 

My husband does look at the treatment as life enhancing, he savours the treatment, meditates and focuses on the positive that it brings, acknowledging things would be very different if he had not been given the treatment. Diagnosed in May 2020, T3N3M1 GOJ with secondaries, so I have an idea of some of what you are going through. 

Thinking of you both

Lowe'

Hi Lowe thanks for contacting me.it was refreshing to hear how positive your husband is, I'm sure this helps with all the stuff treatment and cancer throws at him, I am a half cup full person but Bill isn't.

It has been tough and Bill is having his second chemo tomorrow. This is a new cancer not secondaries, it is T3 N0 M0 , the oncologist said it isn't curable but hopefully manageable. He still worries that if he  get over this one the other could grow again. Bill finds it hard to be positive and I try to remind him how far he has come and remember how bad the treatment was last time and he survived. He's not a man to sit around doing nothing so he has a lot of time to brood and worry . He has been through the mill as he also had shingles at the latter end of his first chemo for sclc and still suffers with post herpatic neuralgia. For someone who was never ill he finds it hard to accept.

I wish he would join a group or look at alternatives to help him stay positive but he has become a hermit and won't accept that his life has changed.

Let's hope we all have some peace and comfort this Christmas.

Take care Anne

Hi Anne,

It isn't easy for everyone to stay positive or even begin to feel positive, but I hope that the oncologist is right and things are manageable and not as difficult as Bill feels it may be, 

Thinking of you both , and wishing you the peace and comfort this Christmas that we all deserve

Stay Strong

Lowe'