Immunotherapy

TracyR 10 hours ago

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Good morning, everyone

My lovely mum was diagnosed 8 weeks ago with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, which had metastasize to her spine and peritoneal area. She had one high dose of radiotherapy and her first treatment of immunotherapy last Wednesday, she has been very very sleepy since that, sleeping most of the day and is now not really able to move, she has started to pick up over the last 24 hours, has anyone else had experience like this? one doctor thought this was her time but another thought it might be a reaction to the treatment.

chellesimo 7 hours ago

Hi TracyR I am so sorry to hear about your mum. I can’t really offer any advice with this, I just wanted to send you my best wishes. Let’s hope the 2nd doctor is right and it is just side effects xx

“Try to be a rainbow, in somebody else's cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

Chelle

StevePr 6 hours ago

Hi Tracy

Immunotherapy can be VERY tiring. The body is not only dealing with cancer, quite enough in itself, it is also having to recruit the immune system in a way it hasn't been used before. Bit of a double-whammy, so feeling tired is only natural under the circumstances. The exhaustion can be mental as well as physical.

Back to double-whammy territory - exercise helps lots. Oh wow, so how do we exercise when we're too wiped out to just get along? This doesn't help at all... Well, start slow and build up gradually: like every time you walk upstairs go straight back down and go back up again. Stuff like that - keep adding more movement until it turns into exercise. When it feels hard, remember that exercise boosts the immune system, so there will be more benefit squeezed out of the immunotherapy. My oncologist told me to eat more protein too, to make more of those white blood cells that are doing the good work.

kind regards
Steve

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