Carboplatin

I was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer initially 6 years ago and had my op followed by chemo and all was well until my markers started to rise again 22 months ago. Looking back, it seemed to co -inside with a prolonged stressful period, in which I got run down and picked up all sorts of things that never bothered me before such as flu and bad sinus infection. My marker started going down after I got onto alkalising foods and stabalised for about a year before more stress pushed it up again. MRI scans picked up nothing and not until I had a PET CT did anything appear. I had another op in November and after that my marker dropped from 88 to 7 even before chemo. I have now had 2 sessions of carboplatin and have started to have an allergic reaction to the drug so have dedcided to discontinue.  There are other things you can do to help your situation. Chemo doesn't work on its own. You have to take a good look at your diet, reduce stress and get exercising. I don't intend to get it back but I need to change the things I should have after the first time. Just remember that cancer cells love sugar so make sure you eat a lot of alkalising foods such as fruit and vegetables.

I was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer in 2010 my cancer marker was 770 after 3 treatments and surgery the cancer marker was 59.  I had 8 treatments of carboplatin, of course during the last couple of them I had a reactions to the carbo and took a series of steriods. At the end of the treatments I had to have 3 more treatments due to the fact the cancer cells were not gone. After the addition 3 the ca125 went up some. The only symptons I had from my treatments were loss of appetite, hair loss, being real tired and my feet going numb at times all these were miner to what some had with it. So now on Monday next week I will be taking a new treatment Doxil and hopefully not have any of the symptons I have read about. I would like to hear from others dealing with your cancer. Linda ( linjpw59@yahoo.com)

Real soon after my 1st round of chemo I began to rapidly lose almost all of my hair.

My round 2 onwards I began to find that with each round of chemo there was a mixture of both numbness at times pins & needles n pain starting from my toes reaching my knees and also from my finger tips upwards towards my elbows.

I've finished my 6th round of chemo and still feel very wobbly on my feet and easily lose balance. Can't tie up my (needed) head scarf or do up buttons and zips.

Is frustrating that there is little follow up in that each time I go for another round of chemo there are different m.o's on duty, fine the sr consultant is very busy but the m.o's don't seem able to tend to us (not just me but other ovarian cancer patients too) who all complain of either crippling pain, inability to walk / balance problems and insomnia.

Am waiting for the doc to tell me my ct scan results after 6 rounds of chemo. Apt is nxt wk.