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Nausea and difficulty eating before starting chemotherapy

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I wanted to know if anyone would have any suggestions regarding symptoms prior to chemo. If a cancer patient even before starting treatment is experiencing a lot of nausea and difficulty eating, how would chemotherapy possibly affect this patient after treatment? My main concern here is the strength of the patient prior to receving the chemicals. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

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daybyday

On 9/19/2009 airmax wrote:

I wanted to know if anyone would have any suggestions regarding symptoms prior to chemo. If a cancer patient even before starting treatment is experiencing a lot of nausea and difficulty eating, how would chemotherapy possibly affect this patient after treatment? My main concern here is the strength of the patient prior to receving the chemicals. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

You should ask your oncologist for some anti-nausea meds, zofran is very effective. Is the difficulty eating due to the nausea or the location of the cancer? Anytime something comes up or a patient is experiencing problems, contact your oncologist. There are many things that can be done. Good luck and stay strong.

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airmax

The difficulty right now is more due to the cancer's location. The patient's cancer has spread to her lymph nodes. The Zofran taken orally wasn't helping much.

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wvdavidleroy

is no reason to feel like that before chemo but , in your mind, my chemo nurses told me some people got sick just driving there to get it, and you do not get sick from the chemo til usually 24 hours later. i know, had 6 months of it, only thing that made me sick before was just the thought !!! of going thru it again

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