I don't know what I'm doing

1995 I had ovarian cancer and had surgery I was treated with taxol/cisplatin.  It was gone for 12 years. It returned in 2007 as peritoneal and 2008 again and here I am again it has returned. I did my Chemo 3 times and I am pretty much finished with it. Oh don't get me wrong I am not giving up I am just done with the Chemo at this point. I really don't know what I am going to do. I changed my eating habits and I excercise daily. I just dont know what to expect. My Dr said I look good I feel good so why mess that up with Chemo. It is my choice not to do it.

I will probably die from this but what is going to happen to me.

In June I was in the hospital with obstructed bowel, is this what I should expect?

Is there  anyone out there can fill me in. I really don't want to go out like that.

thanks 

On 8/12/2009 mstacee wrote:

1995 I had ovarian cancer and had surgery I was treated with taxol/cisplatin.  It was gone for 12 years. It returned in 2007 as peritoneal and 2008 again and here I am again it has returned. I did my Chemo 3 times and I am pretty much finished with it. Oh don't get me wrong I am not giving up I am just done with the Chemo at this point. I really don't know what I am going to do. I changed my eating habits and I excercise daily. I just dont know what to expect. My Dr said I look good I feel good so why mess that up with Chemo. It is my choice not to do it.

I will probably die from this but what is going to happen to me.

In June I was in the hospital with obstructed bowel, is this what I should expect?

Is there  anyone out there can fill me in. I really don't want to go out like that.

thanks 

Hey there,

It breaks my heart to read that you are going through this battle. I was diagnosed with PPC stage 4 in January 2007. I had 18 months of chemo which did nothing but make me sick enough that I just wanted to die. I was in hospital 4 times with bowel obstructions and in the end said enough to chemo. I started having high doses of Vitamin C and B17 weekly and within a few months I was feeling great. My CA125 slowly went down to 22 and I had so much energy. For over a year I managed to live a normal life. My marker has just jumped up again and I gave in to try chemo once again ( even though I had promised myself to never do it again ). The chemo I am on now is Gemcitabine with the unfortunate mix of carboplatin. One treatment and my markers have started to come down. I won't lie ... chemo sucks more than anything else on this earth but I have to say this isn't as evil as the Taxol was. 

If you want to chat to some more people who are going through what we are we have a group on Facebook -  

there is also information added on there about different treatments.

Please take care and join us for a chat whenever you feel like it ... you are not alone xx

Kathryn S