How painful is chemotherapy?

How painful is chemotherapy?

Carly Schwartz (Co-Founder) gives expert video advice on: Is there anything I should not ask people to help me with while I'm battling cancer?; How painful is radiation?; What are some good ways to cope with nausea during chemotherapy? and more...

I've been told that if you give 10 patients the same drug you will have 10 different reactions, so it would really depend on the individual how painful chemotherapy is. The common problems are nausea, fatigue, constipation, sometimes diarrhoea, and some people have an aversion to needles. So there's a whole spectrum of possibilities when having chemotherapy to treat your cancer. But I also see people who do very well and there's drugs for nausea, constipation and diarrhoea, so there's ways to treat mostly everything that you experience during your chemotherapy cancer treatment.