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[pink_fairy]

On a scale of 1-10, how bad was your overall chemo experience?

How long did you go through it? What stage cancer did you have when it began?

Comments

I guess a six

[wutheroe_jack]

I don't remember everything, it was a while ago. I went through chemo and radiation at the same time too.

I remember being bald. and nauseous. and there was one chemo drug that I turned out to be allergic to (I broke out in itchy hives for three days). It left me drained and weak, like a noodle with a skeleton inside.

The plus side? No matter how sick I've gotten since then I have not vomited.

[julieannie]

I guess I would say 4. I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma stage II and had 12 rounds from 8/6/05-02/03/06. I had treatments every 15 days for 2 hours each time. There were many delays due to low counts. It was exhausting and I felt gross and dirty all the time. I think the emotional part was harder on me than the physical part. In retrospect I think I rank it a 4 but at the time I would have said 3 because I didn't realize how much it would impact my life even now.