eli5: Why cant they anesthetize chemo patients so they don’t feel the pain from chemotherapy?
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I’ve had chemo and stem cell treatment because of Testicular Cancer. It took me around a year to be in remission. And i still am.
I also told my doctor that i want to be sedated at least. In order to be able to handle the hardest round of chemo i took (Just before the stem cell treatment).
He told me that there may be some complications from the sedation medicine they would give me and they may not be able to understand if it is from chemo or stem cell transplant or some other medication i took. So it complicates everything.
Also most sedating medication and anesthesia are drugs which might suppress your respiration. So there is that too.
Hard times tbh, but i am happy that i had cancer. It tought me that if i keep living the life my family, friends and my then fiancée want me to (she broke up with me amidst the treatment, 4th month or sth) , i will die a sad man.
I have left with no fucks to give anymore.
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