Small cell lung cancer

Hi I am sorry to hear your Mum is feeling so worn out ,certainly some of it will be the chemo and the radiotherapy side effects ,perhaps once her blood count improves she may start to feel better ,after having carboplatin on my last cycle I took to lying down a lot as I frequently felt breathless and dizzy upon getting up. I did develop a love of red meats and green vegetables at this time even though everything else made me feel yuk .They body sort of tells you what it needs .I never had radiotherapy or pemetrexed a different mix was ordered for me .Your Mum is also older than myself so she must be feeling it .If you are really concerned contact the chemo unit or lung care nurse they may check her bloods earlier which might be helpful .Try not to worry too much things do improve and it is always harder to watch these things happen to those we love than to be the person experiencing it all .Hope it all improves for her over Christmas a.Diane .

Chemo and radiation will knock you to your feet. She should not push herself. Plenty of rest and make sure she eats.

Hello, the best thing for your mum is rest, if she is able, foods with lots of iron and vitamins. I had chemo after my lung operation last year, it did knock me about but thankfully came through it, you are helping her with your support, but let her is ten to her body, rest is a great healer. I was 72 when operated on so there is lots of hope for your Mom.

Hilde72

hello again. Yes I did struggle to eat and keep weight on and without the help of Ensure (a drink supplement from doctor) I woukd make myself have at least one a day, I would have lost more weight. Is the problem keeping weight on or loosing it?

Hilde 72

Thank you for taking the time to reply to me again! The hospital have my mum the ensure drinks last week & she has been having one a day but I'm really worried how thin she is she just can't seem to stop loosing weight the last weigh in she was 7.5 stone. She eats very little but is trying hard. Today was a good day & she did eat well for her! She really is suffering with feeling the cold too!

I really hope you are doing well & have had a nice Christmas. I really appreciate your kindness in taking time to think of advising fellow sufferers.

Best wishes

Jo

Thank you so much for your reply! Mum is up to 2 ensure a day now thanks to your advice. We are at the hospital tues for bloods & to see doc about if she's up to chemo on thurs but our suspicions are that she will need a blood transfusion first as she already had anaemia prob before all this & she has become so breathless. She had a transfusion in the beginning of Nov but I think chemo has prob knocked her bloods severely as the breathlessness is like before when her haemoglobin gets very low. Did you have this problem?

I really hope your well and would like to wish you a very happy positive new year!

Jo