Chemotherapy Regimens
Chemotherapy is a popular cancer treatment. And it ahs become popular mainly because it is effective. However, it is a bit stressful for body. This will give some kind of tension in mind as well as body. Chemotherapy will also give fatigue. In order to get rid of fatigue during chemotherapy one must plan the day in advance. This will help in reducing tiredness. This includes taking short naps. And if possible you must take leave from office during this period. Do not take too much stress in this time. What you must do is, you must take short breaks and naps in between. This will give you the required energy to tackle with things. You may even get into prayer, meditation, light yoga and exercises. You may even get into visualization
and guided meditation. All these things will work towards increasing the levels of your energy. However, it is vital to talk to your doctor first while you are planning to do some exercises or make certain modifications in your food and lifestyle. The best suggestion will be to have plenty of foods and ample of liquids and fluids. But it is vital to eat healthy. But you must be careful about the food that you eat and thus make it a point that you do not eat too much at a time. This will add to sleepiness and tired doing the entire work at home then make some arrangements for helpers If you getfatigue.
or take help from the family members. Even small help like cleaning kitchen, cleaning table and doing the dusting work can give you much relief. The best thing to avoid depression and fatigue during chemotherapy is to join a support group. This will help to combat fatigue and tiredness. You must make a plan of the entire day. This will give you some relief.
There are many kinds of side effects and they affect the people in some way or the other. Chemotherapy drugs are of many types. Some patients are given single drugs while others are given combination therapy. It all depends upon the condition of the patient and the doctor’s knowledge. Before you start chemotherapy, you must talk to the doctor in connection to dosage and regime of chemotherapy. This will give you to plan ahead about your chemotherapy sessions.
In some people there will be very serious side effects. And in some people the side effects will be really nominal and thus you never know how your boy will react unless and until you really undergo chemotherapy sessions. Discuss the side effects with the doctor. Also discuss with him various remedial measures that would help you cope up with the side effects as associated with chemotherapy
However, one thing is worth noting and that is, soon after chemotherapy sessions are over all the side effects will go away. Only in a few cases it was seen that patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy had to face serious side effects in the form of permanent organ damage like kidneys, reproductive organs and so on.
It is seen that people undergoing chemotherapy have to face short term side effects and they recover from that soon.