naunie's Cancer Blog
February 26, 2008
| Getting Nervous | Views: 343 |
Things here have been ok. My mom has been pretty much the same. Exhausted and trying to get through the day… She seems to be down lately. I know that she is getting nervous bc she has shortness of breath and heavier breathing. She is nervous that this means her lungs are really bad. I know that she has spots on her lungs. We go for a test soon. Has anyone ever gotten shortness of breath from chemo? Thanks!
06.22.08 - 
Thanks for your support -
I am so sorry your Mom has to suffer. I had shortness of breth during chemo both times and it has never gone away. I don’t know what chemo drugs she is taking but some of them can cause shortness of breath. I can understand her being nervous when it comes time to see the doctor. You are always afraid that they will give you some more bad news. Tell her to take the pills if it helps. It is so hard watching your loved ones suffer. I just wanted you to know that I care and that I will be praying for your Mom and you.
Love, Joyce
My Mom also has shortness of breath from the chemo. Especially when doing anything remotely active. She didn’t used to have that problem, she was never a smoker etc. But now when we walk from the car to the doctors office, she can get very winded. She had that side effect with both the Folfox and Folfuri.
Thank you. I have told her about your comments. They help us so much!
Good Morning and that is what I hope it truly
To answer your question about shortness of breath, all I can say is that my oncologist told me that it wwas the radiation that cause the damage.. I had been fine for over 1 1/2 years and then I started getting short of breathe.. and it was getiing quite bad… Nothing the Dr’s could do and so i decided to get an exercise big.
Firts time I got on it one minute was all I could not as I was totally out of breath… Next time I got a bit smarter and put an oxygen tan onto the frot of the big, and then I was able to do 5 min.
Now I am up to 12 minutes… It si a slow process but at least for me it wouks.. Making going for short walks, or something but you do need to excercise, to build up your lung capacity again other wise thisgs will get worst.. So keep plugging away and she will notice athat after even one week she will notice a small difference but she will noticed a difference… Sometimes it is nnot so easy, and you have to keep plugging away at it and it does get bettre.. Yesterday I had to shovel wet heavy snow from my side walkway, then do the frot, then I taclked the big job as I have 1500 sq. feet of comcrete pation in the back and I try to also keep that clean..
Best of luck and tell your mom that sometimes we need to get stubborn about things if we want to get better.. I don’t know how old your my is but I am 67 years old and like everything else we do not like getting old… The one thing that truly helped me when I had 37 radiation (5 time a week for 71/2 weeks plus chemo every Tuesday for 7 weeks…) the thing that really carried me through that was that I was able to turn it over to God totally and completely, and know what during all that time I never worried about it not one single little bit. besides that I still worked 4 days a week and that sure helped to take my mind off of thinks… Tell your mom to try to exercise on a daily basis,,, it does help..
Best of luck.. and God Bless your misfortune…
(by the way I had even accepted death, because I thought that if it is my time to go what can I do about it…
Help to try to lift up her spirits.. it makes a difference … God Bless Ray