Hi folks
I'm just over 3 weeks out of my first chemo session and send to tolerate it well enough. Being treated for womb cancer grade 2 stage 3. Had my hysterectomy on Sept 30th.
I'm due a session every 3 weeks but Christmas made it 4 weeks.
Of course I felt grotty for 5 days solid then started to improve.
A few days ago (so 3 weeks after chemo) I noticed my pooping going awry. Felt like constipation but poop wasn't particularly solid. Had a bit of a temperature on boxing day, felt wiped out and been taking senna before bed to help. This coincided with hair falling out more seriously.
Been pooping a few times a day, not feeling like I'm emptying and my poo is pretty skinny.
I've worked myself into a lather about it. It sounds like bowel inflammation and I'm worried it'll delay chemo, get worse, turn into chrohns or colitis and be permenant...
Does anyone have any experience or advice?
Thanks ladies,
Claire
I'm sorry to read that you're worried. I would ring your chemo nurses and get checked out. Mine were very helpful when I had problems. There should be an out of hours number in the information they supplied. The number for the Macmillan advice line is at the end of this reply.
A x
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