More Tips (and a Shopping List) for Getting Through Chemo

Badger - congrats on the 5 yr anniv.  That is awesome.

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Thanks to sharing this wonderful information. It is very useful not only for me but also for everyone. Everyone should concern about these precaution before taking Chemo-Therapy..

it's just a post to bump the thread back to the top of the "Active Topics" list for others to find more easily.

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RevUp - sorry you have to join us. This thread is a wonderful reference. You may want to join the group of women just starting chemo as you are. There's usually a current thread – like February Chemo 2015

https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/69/topic/827966?page=1#idx_25

(please cut & paste or look in the active file if the link doesn't work). And you may want to go back & find the month or the quarter before to read & see how those just before you are solving issues. Also there's a "recurrence" thread. Once you fill in your personal profile with your specifics we'll be better able to recommend other things that might be relevant.

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Thank you for this thread. I might have to start chemo soon after having been under the impression I was having surgery first. I have a lot of reading to do.

Can someone add this to the mouth sores section?

I started having a terrible time with canker sores (about 6 or 7 years ago) and did extensive reading about it because I was miserable. At one point, I had about 6 of them in my mouth. I learned to pop 2 lysine tablets at the first second I felt one coming on and take more of them in the next few days. They stopped them cold. Now I don't even get them anymore. I might start taking them daily BEFORE starting chemo. I looked it up and they have been recommended during chemo.

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