To stop, or not to stop
Hi all, I posted before about my troubles with immunotherapy treatment. I started again after three weeks of prednisone and three weeks of weaning off. My first treatment was February 9, 2024 and my next one will be January 7. I think my schedule last treatment will be around April 1, my oncologist said I had to do nine treatments after surgery, so my next one is like my fifth last one.
So far, I haven’t had severe side effects with my lungs so much, but I think it may be coming eventually. I still have a lot of gastrointestinal problems and extreme fatigue, muscle aches, nausea, headaches. I’m not on any kind of medication.
I know compared to what I’ve been through, it really doesn’t feel like much longer, I just don’t know if I can make it. My oncologist says that I need to do all the treatments. Does anyone know, Is it like radiation that you have to complete all of them or it’s not effective? I’ve had it every three weeks since February last year (except for those six weeks ) plus six months of chemo and four weeks rads. On my good days I think of course I need to do everything I possibly can to prevent recurrence, but some days I just cry because I feel so bad and tired and sick. I can’t believe most people don’t get side effects, I would do over chemotherapy if I didn’t have to do this. Well, maybe not but at least you get drugs to help with that 😔