Please share your experience.
A week ago, my mother finished radiation therapy + temolozolomide.
The condition was good.
Now she has great weakness, all the time very sleepy, it's hard to walk, sometimes unnatural speech.
I can not understand, such weakness is the consequences of radiation therapy?
Also the last 2 weeks my mom takes every day Metformin (2х1000mg), DCA (2х1300mg), delagil (1х250mg), celebrex (2х200mg).
P.S. My mother also had a very low leukocyte count to 1.66 (norm 4.5-11). What do you recommend food additives for their increase?
A week ago, my mother finished radiation therapy + temolozolomide.
The condition was good.
Now she has great weakness, all the time very sleepy, it's hard to walk, sometimes unnatural speech.
I can not understand, such weakness is the consequences of radiation therapy?
Also the last 2 weeks my mom takes every day Metformin (2х1000mg), DCA (2х1300mg), delagil (1х250mg), celebrex (2х200mg).
P.S. My mother also had a very low leukocyte count to 1.66 (norm 4.5-11). What do you recommend food additives for their increase?
I didn't have radiation, but I think that pseudoprogression is quite common after radiation.
ReplyDeletehttps://radiopaedia.org/articles/tumour-pseudoprogression
Fatigue is a very common side effect of radiotherapy (and also of of chemotherapy), so I think it's not necessarily something to be overly concerned about. I believe this fatigue usually lasts for around a month or so, though I have read it can in some cases also last longer. From what I understand it's also common that radiotherapy can temporarily cause to reappear or worsen the same symptoms that were already experienced before the therapy.
ReplyDeleteI hope your mother recovers quickly.
Best,
John
DCA is a potential cause of those symptoms even after a short period of use.
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