Hi Roseb30

Welcome to Cancer Chat.

I'm sure many here will understand how you are feeling when you say it is hard to go about your life.

I hope others who have similar experiences and feelings will come along to introduce themselves shortly.

I hope too that the procrit is working and that your chemo went well.

Best wishes

Jane 

Hi

Your story sounds really similar to my mums, she was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer on 01 June 2016, and is stage 2 (at least she thinks that was what she was told). She will also have to go back in three months for a CT Scan to see if the cancer is shrinking.
She had her first chemo on the 8th June (I don't know which type I will find out). She was very sick with chronic diarrhoea and had to go back into hospital that weekend due to dehydration (everytime she took a sip of water or ate - she was being sick). She also has issues with her blood/ blood pressure and she is suffering with constant dizziness.

The hospital gave her some other anti sickness med - that seems to have worked and the diarrhoea has cleared up. It is just this dizziness that is preventing her from doing things as simple as taking a shower or preparing her food or going outside (she hasn't in about 3 weeks). She lives alone and my sister trys to get to see her every day. I live in a different city an hour and a half away, and have an 8 yr old so my sister is doing the main caring. My mum sleeps on the sofa downstairs as she finds it difficult to get upstairs with the dizziness and she is low in energy/appetite. We are all waiting for the CT scan 3 months in to see if the chemo is having an effect. I can't really think beyond that. If anybody has any suggetions for the dizziness -meds to ask for/tips how to deal with, it would be greatly appreciated