 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Paul,
You are not recovering from a bad case of the flu. Your body has been tortured and has fought for it's life so you should not expect to bounce back in a few days as if it were nothing. In fact don't be surprised if you feel even worse for the next few weeks, most of us did. That said, you will recover but it will take many many many months of teenie, tiny baby steps. At first you may feel better for a day and worse for 2 days. Slowly the good days will outnumber the bad days until you stop having bad days. You may feel weak as a kitten for a few months but slowly your strength will return. Your taste and your dry mouth will be the last things to recover as mine recovered almost fully over a 16 month period.
Hang in there and be thankful that there is a Tx, however barbaric, that can defeat our cancer most of the time. In the relatively brief period of time I've been on this site I have witnessed far too many that didn't live long enough to complain about their recovery.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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