It is important to say that the negative effects of chemotherapy go away in about six months or a year. Chemotherapy is the input of toxic fluids into the body, it kills cancer cells at the same time will also kill the body's normal white blood cells, so that people's immunity is reduced, accompanied by nausea and vomiting body pain and weakness, the big chemical will also be hair loss. After the end of chemotherapy, through dietary modification, active exercise, mainly to adjust the mentality, slowly the body's side effects will disappear.
However, chemotherapy alone may not be able to completely kill all cancer cells, but it can make large tumors smaller, so that at that time the inoperable cancer patients have the opportunity to have surgery.
Nowadays, medical science recognizes that cancer patients with a survival period of more than 5 years are considered cured. With the development of science and technology and the continuous improvement of medical technology, people's attitude towards cancer has also changed. Cancer is just a common disease that often accompanies people, just like the flu and fever, but it is just a little bit more ferocious compared to the flu and fever.
Everyone has cancer cells in their bodies, but as long as we live a regular life, pay attention to our diets, and are less angry and calm, there is no chance for the cancer cells to grow and attack.
I used to be small-minded and angry, and I got cervical cancer in 2010. After the baptism of this disease, I changed my attitude towards life: think about everything, don't be a bull's-eye, don't compare life, no matter how good or bad it is, just enough to get by. The Chinese and Western medicines are not a cure for the disease, and peace of mind is a good medicine for health.
My sister's chemotherapy experience as an example, to say how long it takes for the body to recover completely after chemotherapy.
My sister was diagnosed on September 30, 2017, operated on October 11 at Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital, and started chemotherapy at the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital on November 1 of the same year, with intravenous oxaliplatin + oral capecitabine. It took more than half a year for my sister to complete the surgery and chemotherapy, and the last chemotherapy was on April 17, 2018.
During chemotherapy, my sister experienced vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, hand-foot syndrome, bone marrow suppression of melanin deposition ...... can be said, inhuman torture.
Let's start with the recovery from side effects during chemotherapy.
My sister is every 21 days a cycle, the first day to play intravenous oxaliplatin, and then began oral capecitabine to the 14th day, that is to say, the 15th day to the 21st day, my sister is not to take drugs and do not have to play intravenous chemotherapy drugs. The first four courses of treatment sister the first two weeks of each cycle of chemotherapy are more difficult, poor appetite, weight loss, but stopping the drug will be better, but to the back of the four courses of treatment, due to the accumulation of chemotherapy drugs, even if the drug is stopped, the sister's essence, appetite, sleep, etc. still can not be a complete improvement, anyway, it is just to stay up.
And again, all the chemo after the end of the sub recovery.
On April 17th, 18 years, my sister did the left after a chemotherapy, this chemotherapy due to severe myelosuppression, the doctor will reduce the amount of drugs to 75%, and the oral chemotherapy drugs also only eat 7 days before stopping.
April 21, the sister appeared unexplained back pain, physical weakness, good in the back of a false alarm. At the end of June of the same year, my sister returned to the original unit to continue to work despite the family's opposition. During the work period, intermittent back pain, fatigue, fear of cold, frequent nasal congestion and cold ...... In short, the sister looks like a normal person, but is not a normal person.
18 years National Day, my brother-in-law took my sister to Macau to play a day, came back to my sister has been back pain for more than three months, always shouting tired, want to sleep, eating is not good ......
In fact, until the middle of 19 years, my sister said, "I feel like there is no back pain for a long time! "
My sister now regularly takes her niece out hiking every Saturday and Sunday, and her spirit is not too different from normal. Although she can't eat and drink with us, all of us are very grateful.
You expect too much from chemo. A few more years back to normal? You should ask the question differently, how long does chemo prolong life? In fact, this depends on your own body itself, radiotherapy or chemotherapy is just using external force to intervene in the growth of cancer cells. If your condition is serious and at an advanced stage, it is hard to say how effective chemotherapy can be, and it may even speed up the patient's death. Early stage is much better, and may effectively kill those remaining cancer cells, allowing the patient to recover completely. All in all, this is a very difficult disease, or you should pay more attention to it in general.
I am 68 years old this year, seven years ago found gynecological tumors, cervical cancer 2a, did a pan hysterectomy, chemotherapy four times, radiotherapy 20 times, radiation enteritis, radiation urethritis, lymphatic obstruction of the legs swollen, the symptoms of these symptoms for three years before disappearing, which did not use any anti-tumor Chinese and Western medicine drugs, but just to eat some of the treatment of enteritis, urinary tract infections and other drugs.
I retired store, play technology, never left the post, the cause of subtraction, keep fit to do addition, to the square to learn gymnastics, every day and the old man hiking morning exercise, four years of what drugs are not used, never caught the flu, occasionally cold and flu ate one or two tablets of paracetamol disease, every day, the spirit of the studio to brush the existence of the studio, you can be so flirting with me, I do not have any basic illness, there is a special disease to I've been and gone, send a few photos taken with a cell phone during the morning exercise this year, and share them with the netizens.
My grandfather checked out in 05 years with advanced lung cancer, then heard like a bolt from the blue, just retirement age, just to enjoy the sunset of life, the doctor said: not a few months time. After that, we decided to have the surgery, to fight, not conservative treatment. After the surgery, radiation therapy, that time the hair fell out, the body is unusually weak
In this way, chemotherapy for a year, the body and mind were tortured by the drug is not a person, the meal can not eat, but also to go to the hospital for regular checkups, in this way, good luck to the public, and now, more than eighty, the body of the bar, especially good. The first thing I'd like to say is that I'm not sure I can do this.
Cancer patients in the choice of time, than the death of the tragic, a step of life, a step of the choice of death. Individual physique person is different, the effect of the treatment method is also different.
May the patient in the fight with cancer, strong, everything will be good, the mind determines the state, the state is good, the condition is likely to develop in the direction of good.
Cancer must be a combination of Chinese and Western medicine. The only radiotherapy treatment is not to treat the symptoms, not to use traditional Chinese medicine sad five-year survival period.
Cancer patients since the beginning of chemotherapy, into the use of Chinese medicine to participate. Must go to a large Chinese hospital to see a doctor, please specialize in the treatment of cancer of Chinese medicine experts diagnosis to eat Chinese medicine, do not wild Chinese medicine Langzhong main, adhere to the long-lasting eat Chinese medicine, will certainly receive good results. Chinese medicine is mainly to support the right to get rid of, the evil two legs to walk the road, at the same time, the beginning to support the right to account for 40%, 40% of the elimination of evil and detoxification of 20%, indispensable, each other with the condition of the condition of the transfer. The sooner you join the Chinese medicine, the better, find a good Chinese medicine depends on your luck. Chinese and Western medicine is the only correct way to go on, to reach your ideal shore
I went through 14 times of chemotherapy, and now from the last chemotherapy has been two and a half years, chemotherapy during the long and difficult days really days like years, and then look back to see the past years, is still palpitating, but fortunately I finally survived all the hardships, and restored to the present live and let live.
I missed the best treatment because I thought I had a digestive disorder due to bloating, and when I was diagnosed with advanced cancer, it was so severe that there was no hope of surgery, so I had to choose chemotherapy to ease my condition. When I had my first chemotherapy treatment, my body was very weak, so I had a few vials of albumin before the infusion to make sure my body could withstand the highly toxic chemotherapy solution. The chemotherapy infusion lasted from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 a.m. the next day, and I was so weak that I couldn't even open my eyelids when I was lying in the hospital bed, and I was constantly vomiting, not to mention eating. The next few days were characterized by a loss of appetite and constipation, which was really hard to bear.
Chemotherapy is very damaging to the body, it kills the cancer cells as well as the white blood cells in the body. The most common side effects are nausea and vomiting, constipation, decreased white blood cells and platelets, and hair loss. I had chemotherapy every 21 days, and at the beginning of my second chemotherapy treatment, I started to lose my hair. When I combed my hair, a big chunk of hair came out, which was scary! In the end, the few hairs that were left on my head were an eyesore, so I simply pulled them out and they all fell out. This was one of the hardest side effects for me to accept, and I wore a head covering for almost all of the year and a half I was on chemo, and I didn't feel anything in the winter, but in the summer it was unbearable, and it was hot as hell!
After my third chemotherapy treatment, my health improved, because I can eat especially during the period to ensure that the body's nutritional needs, so the side effects of the corresponding reduction, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, these symptoms are not, only a few days of bad appetite and constipation, these are acceptable and did not affect the life, but the damage to white blood cells and platelets, and hair loss is still unable to change. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to change that.
My body is very sensitive to chemotherapy, so the effect is very good, after 6 times of chemotherapy, the tumor can no longer be seen in the ultrasound, only in the CT, so there is a chance to do the operation, I was really happy, I feel that I am a great fortune in the misfortune! So I had my first surgery in a specialized hospital in the provincial city.
After the surgery, I had 4 more chemotherapy treatments to consolidate my condition. I had surgery for intestinal adhesions, which prevented me from getting enough nutrients for three months, and many nodules appeared on my abdomen, so I had to have chemotherapy four more times to eliminate these hidden problems, and the total number of chemotherapy treatments was 14, which I really admired!
I finished all the chemo in early July 2018, and for three months after that, my fingers were slightly swollen and sore, as well as my feet hurt a bit when I started to walk, it felt like I had climbed a mountain the day before, but I was fine after a few more steps, and my hair started to grow one month after I stopped chemo. The new hair was dark and curly, like a perm. A few months after the end of chemotherapy, all the symptoms disappeared.
Now it has been 2.5 years since I finished chemotherapy, and I have not taken any Chinese or Western medicines during this period, but I have recovered to be like a normal person, without any discomfort caused by the disease. During this period I mainly insisted on exercise to improve the body's immunity, and now I have to do one hour of aerobics every morning, and I also dance trampoline and jazz dance at night. In addition, we should have a good mindset, relax and look down on everything, do what you need to do, don't think nonsense. Live in the moment, don't think about tomorrow, and live every day for the rest of your life.
I'm Jiang Zhitong, co-founder of China's non-drug systemic immunotherapy, and I dare say that no doctor in Western medicine would dare to answer your question, because they know one thing very well, after chemotherapy, very few people can recover, and the survival rate of 5 years is only 7%, and you are asking for a few years to return to normal, and you're too much to make it difficult for doctors.
But you don't realize that according to a study by the American Cancer Society, about 10% of cancer patients will recover naturally without any treatment, so get it right, this natural recovery is in line with the return to normal that you are talking about. And 5 year survival is likely not the same thing at all as returning to normal.
I've been calling for a ban on allopathic radiotherapy and surgery for cancer patients, and if the mayor of any city is willing to pilot a ban on allopathic radiotherapy and surgery for cancer patients, I guarantee that the death rate of cancer patients in that city will drop by 40% or more immediately.
I don't know how to answer this question. After chemo, you feel great, and that's normal! Like me, after going through surgery, chemo, and radiation, I slowly recovered quite well, and now that it's been four years, I feel like everything is still the same as it was before I got sick. But also always vaguely worried a bit, but have faith that you can live a long life [yay] [yay] [yay]