The negative effects of chemotherapy will disappear in about half a year. Chemotherapy is injecting toxic liquid into the body, killing cancer cells and normal white blood cells in the body, which makes people's immunity decline, accompanied by nausea and vomiting, pain and weakness, and even hair loss. After chemotherapy, the side effects of the body will gradually disappear through diet and active exercise.
Simple chemotherapy may not completely kill all cancer cells, but it can make large tumors smaller and give cancer that could not be operated at that time a chance to have surgery.
It is now recognized in medicine that cancer patients can be cured if they survive for more than 5 years through treatment. With the development of science and technology and the continuous improvement of medical technology, people's attitudes towards cancer have also changed. Cancer is just a common disease that often accompanies people, just like a cold and fever, but it is more fierce than a cold and fever.
Everyone has cancer cells in his body. As long as we live a regular life, pay attention to diet, be less angry and have a peaceful mind, cancer cells will have no chance to grow up and attack.
I used to be narrow-minded and sulky, and I got cervical cancer on 20 10. After the baptism of this serious illness, I changed my attitude towards life: everything should be open-minded, don't get stuck in the mire, don't compare with others in life, and no matter how much food and clothing I have. Chinese medicine and western medicine do not cure diseases, and peace of mind is a good medicine for health.
Take my sister's chemotherapy experience as an example, and talk about how long it will take for her body to completely return to normal after chemotherapy.
My sister was diagnosed on September 30th, 20 17, and had an operation in wuhan union hospital on October 30th, 1 1. In the same year, she started chemotherapy in Shenzhen Hospital of the University of Hong Kong, and received intravenous oxaliplatin and capecitabine. After more than half a year, my sister completed surgery and chemotherapy. The last chemotherapy was on April, 2065438 17.
During chemotherapy, my sister appeared vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, hand-foot syndrome, bone marrow suppression of melanin deposition and other symptoms ... It can be said that it is inhuman torture.
Let's talk about the recovery of side effects during chemotherapy.
My sister injected oxaliplatin intravenously every 2 1 day, and then took capecitabine orally until the fourth day, that is, from the fifth day to the second day, my sister didn't need to take medicine or intravenous chemotherapy. In the first four courses of chemotherapy, my sister had a hard time in the first two weeks of each cycle, with poor appetite and weight loss, but she would get better after stopping the drug. But the next four courses of treatment, because of the accumulation of chemotherapy drugs, even if chemotherapy is stopped, my sister's energy, appetite, sleep and so on. It's impossible to get better completely, but she's just holding on.
Let's talk about the recovery of all endpoints after chemotherapy.
18 On April 7th, my sister had a chemotherapy. Due to severe bone marrow suppression, the doctor reduced the dose to 75% and stopped oral chemotherapy after 7 days.
On April 2 1 day, my sister suffered from unexplained back pain and was exhausted. Fortunately, there was a false alarm behind her. At the end of June of the same year, my sister went back to her original unit to continue her work despite her family's opposition. During work, I have intermittent back pain, fatigue, fear of cold, frequent nasal congestion and colds ... In short, my sister looks normal, but she is not.
18 National Day, my brother-in-law took my sister to Macau for a day. After coming back, my sister had a backache for more than three months. She always complains that she is tired, sleepy and can't eat well. ...
In fact, until 19, my sister said, "I haven't felt back pain for a long time!" "
My sister often goes hiking with her niece every Saturday and Sunday, and her spirit is not much different from that of normal people. Although we can't enjoy food and drink spicy food with us, all of us are very lucky.
You expect too much from chemotherapy. How many years will it take to get back to normal? You should put it another way, how long can chemotherapy prolong life? In fact, it depends on your own body, whether it is radiotherapy or chemotherapy, but it is just using external forces to interfere with the growth of cancer cells. If the condition is serious, it is hard to say how much effect chemotherapy can play, and it may even accelerate the patient's death. It is much better in the early stage, which may effectively kill the remnants of those cancer cells and make the patients fully recover. In a word, this disease is very difficult, so we should pay more attention to it at ordinary times.
I am 68 years old. Gynecological tumor was diagnosed 7 years ago, cervical cancer was diagnosed 2 years ago, and total hysterectomy, chemotherapy for 4 times, radiotherapy for 20 times, radiation enteritis, radiation urethritis, lymphatic obstruction and leg edema were performed. These symptoms disappeared for three years. During the period, I didn't use any anti-tumor Chinese and western medicines, but only took some drugs to treat enteritis and urinary tract infection.
I checked out a shop to play with technology. I have never left my post, doing subtraction in my career, adding in medical care, going to the square to learn aerobics, and climbing mountains with my wife every morning. I haven't used any medicine for four years, and I haven't had the flu. Occasionally catch a cold and take paracetamol. I paint in the studio every day, so I can make fun of it. I don't have any basic diseases. A special disease has come and gone.
My grandfather was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in 2005. It sounded like a bolt from the blue at that time. I just retired and was about to enjoy the sunset of my life. The doctor said: not a few months. After that, we decided to operate, strive for and not treat conservatively. After the operation, radiotherapy, when all the hair fell out, the body was extremely weak.
In this way, after a year of chemotherapy, I was exhausted by drugs and couldn't eat any food. I also go to the hospital for regular check-ups. In this way, Jirentai has its own nature. Up to now, he is over 80 and in good health. I also quit smoking from now on.
When cancer patients choose, it is worse than death. They choose to live step by step and die step by step. Different people have different physical conditions, and the effects of treatment methods are also different.
I hope that the patients who are fighting cancer will be strong and everything will be fine. State of mind determines state. If the condition is good, the condition may develop in a good direction.
Cancer must be integrated with traditional Chinese and western medicine. Simple chemotherapy and radiotherapy can only cure the symptoms, and it is difficult to live for five years without Chinese medicine.
Cancer patients have been involved in Chinese medicine since the beginning of chemotherapy. Be sure to go to a big Chinese medicine hospital. Ask a Chinese medicine expert who specializes in treating cancer to diagnose and take Chinese medicine. Do not give priority to wild Chinese medicine. Taking traditional Chinese medicine for a long time will have a good effect. Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly used to strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil, and at the same time. At the beginning, 40% should strengthen the body's resistance, 40% should eliminate evil spirits and 20% should detoxify, both of which are indispensable and can be adjusted according to the condition. The sooner you take Chinese medicine, the better. It depends on your luck to find a good Chinese doctor. Chinese and western medicine is the only correct way to go and reach the other side of your ideal.
I have undergone 14 chemotherapy, and it has been two and a half years since the last chemotherapy. The long and difficult days during chemotherapy were really like years. Looking back on the past years, I still have a lingering fear. Fortunately, I finally survived all the hardships and returned to my lively appearance.
Because abdominal distension missed the best treatment, I always thought it was a digestive system disease. When I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, it was very serious, and there was no hope of surgery at all. I could only choose chemotherapy to alleviate my condition. As the first chemotherapy, my body was very weak, so I took a few bottles of albumin before infusion to ensure that my body could resist this highly toxic chemotherapy solution. Chemotherapy infusion was delivered from 10 in the morning until 4: 00 the next morning. During the whole process, I was weak, and I didn't even have the strength to open my eyelids when I was lying in the hospital bed. Besides, I keep vomiting, not to mention eating. The next few days were loss of appetite, accompanied by constipation, which was really unbearable.
Chemotherapy is very harmful to the body. It kills cancer cells and white blood cells in the body. The most common side effects are nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and constipation, leukopenia and thrombocytopenia, and hair loss. I have chemotherapy every 2 1 day, and my hair began to fall out after the second chemotherapy. I took off a lot of hair as soon as I combed my hair. It was really scary! Finally, there were a few hairs left on my head, which was really an eyesore. I simply pulled them out. This is one of the most unacceptable side effects for me. During the chemotherapy that lasted for one and a half years, I almost always wore a hood. I didn't feel anything in winter, but I felt uncomfortable in summer. It's too hot!
After the third chemotherapy, my body improved. Because I can eat specially during the period to ensure the nutritional needs of the body, the side effects are correspondingly reduced, such as nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, and these symptoms are all gone. Except for a few days of poor appetite and constipation, it is acceptable without affecting my life, but the damage to white blood cells and platelets and hair loss cannot be changed.
My constitution is very sensitive to chemotherapy, so the effect is very good. After six times of chemotherapy, I couldn't see the tumor on B-ultrasound, only on CT, so I was very happy when I had the opportunity to have an operation. I think I'm lucky in misfortune! So I had my first operation in the provincial hospital.
After the operation, in order to consolidate the condition, chemotherapy was done four times. During this period, I had an operation for intestinal adhesion, which caused me to be unable to supply enough nutrition to my body for three months, and there were many nodules in my abdomen. So I did four times of chemotherapy to eradicate these hidden dangers, a total of 14 times. I really admire my strength!
2065438+I finished all chemotherapy in early July 2008. In the next three months, my fingers swelled slightly and my feet hurt a little when I started walking. The day before, I felt like climbing a mountain, but I just walked a few more steps, and my hair began to grow after I stopped chemotherapy for a month. And the new hair is black and curly, like a big wave of perm. After several months of chemotherapy, all the symptoms of discomfort disappeared.
It's been two and a half years since the end of chemotherapy, and I haven't eaten any traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine during this period, but I have recovered to the same level as ordinary people without any discomfort caused by any diseases. During the period, I mainly insist on exercising to improve my immunity. Now I do aerobic exercise for an hour every morning and dance tap and jazz at night. In addition, we should have a good attitude, relax and look down on everything, do what we should do, and don't think too much. Live in the present, don't think about what will happen tomorrow, and live every day for the rest of your life.
I am Jiang Zhitong, co-founder of China Non-drug Systemic Immunotherapy. I dare say that no western doctor dares to answer your question, because they know one thing very well. Few people can recover after chemotherapy, and the 5-year survival rate is only 7%. You asked how many years it would take to get back to normal. You are too difficult for the doctor.
But you should not know that according to a study by the American Cancer Society, about 10% of cancer patients will recover naturally without any treatment. Make sure this natural recovery is in line with what you said. The 5-year survival rate is probably different from returning to normal.
I have been calling on cancer patients to try not to have radiotherapy and chemotherapy. If the mayor of any city is willing to pilot a city to ban cancer patients from using radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery, I guarantee that the death rate of cancer patients in this city will drop by more than 40% immediately.
I don't know how to answer this question. After chemotherapy, you feel great, that's normal! Just like me, I experienced surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and slowly recovered well. It's been four years now, and I think everything is the same as before I got sick. But I always worry vaguely, but I must firmly believe that I can live a long life [yeah] [yeah] [yeah]