eli5: Why cant they anesthetize chemo patients so they don’t feel the pain from chemotherapy?
In: Biology
I’ve been on chemo for an autoimmune disease, but the principles are the same as with cancer.
You would have had to knock me out for about 12-18 months straight. The horrible feelings come from your body almost dying as a result of the chemo, not the chemo itself. The drugs are basically designed to kill you slowly, and in the best case scenario, the fast splitting nature of cancer cells means it dies faster than the rest of you.
It’s not a battle, it’s a race to the finish line of death. All you can do is hope you lose the race.
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