Hi guys,
I'm 27 years old and I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Serous Ovarian Cancer (which has spread to multiple other areas in my lower abdomen and the stomach lining) last March (2024) and I had 9 rounds of two chemotherapies (I forgot the names) from April 2024 until August 2024 and I then switched to targeted treatment (Avastin I think?) as well as tablets which I had been having until maybe a month ago and everything was going well, but then I just had a meeting with my consultant on Thursday for an update after having a CT Scan a couple of weeks ago and unfortunately my Cancer has become active and is growing again in my stomach lining area, so I now have to go back to Chemotherapy :( I have to have Carboplatin which is a completely different chemotherapy to the ones I had last year though so I have absolutely no idea about how it's going to affect me and tbh I'm absolutely terrified as Chemo was just horrendous last time (I was very sick then though and that was two different chemos whereas now I'm nowhere near as sick and I'm only having the one Chemo) So I was just wondering what people's experiences are with just Carboplatin and what side effects you all experienced and how did you treat them? How long did your side effects last for?? Do you lose your hair with this one?? (Google, my consultant and the info sheet we were given are all telling me different things so I'm confused) and most importantly for me, does Carboplatin make you throw up?? I have a HUGE phobia of throwing up and honestly have a lot of trauma around it so that's was terrifies me the most! I'm absolutely devastated, angry and terrified that I have to have Chemo again so any help or support would be very greatly appreciated...... 
Hello. I'm so sorry to hear someone so young is going through this .im 65 and same cancer as you but im grade 3. I had 6 rounds of carboplaltin and pacitaxol. My side affects lasted about 3/4 days
With the anti sickness tablets they give you , I wasn't sick once during whole 6 rounds . Never even felt sick to be honest , it was diareah for me ,but even that only lasted a couple of days. I hope this helps . . Sending lots of love and hoping it goes smoothly for you.
