Lymphoma recovery regieme

[gavinb]

Is there anyone out there who has been through ABVD Chemo for Lymphoma? If so how did you go about getting on the road to fitness again? There is **** loads of info out there on the cancer, the chemo treatment, etc but there is nothing out there on how to recover frome the effects of being poisioned by chemo!!

In Dec I was diagnosed with the following
- Classical Hodgkin lymphoma, Thymus
- Nodular sclerosis
- Type 1
- LCA(-), CD20(+), CD30(+), CD15(+), MUM-1(+), MIB-1(+)
and the docs popped me onto a 6 month course of ABVD with the prognosys of a 98%. Fantastic, but now I'm comming out the far side, with the tumor hopfully gone, but level of fitness is shot to pieces and my abnormally huge lungs feel shot. According to the nurses, this is what most normal humans feel like and I was lucky to have had such a great physiology at the start.

My thought is long base leve rides, anyone else got any thoughts.

[alienator]

Is there anyone out there who has been through ABVD Chemo for Lymphoma? If so how did you go about getting on the road to fitness again? There is **** loads of info out there on the cancer, the chemo treatment, etc but there is nothing out there on how to recover frome the effects of being poisioned by chemo!!

In Dec I was diagnosed with the following
- Classical Hodgkin lymphoma, Thymus
- Nodular sclerosis
- Type 1
- LCA(-), CD20(+), CD30(+), CD15(+), MUM-1(+), MIB-1(+)
and the docs popped me onto a 6 month course of ABVD with the prognosys of a 98%. Fantastic, but now I'm comming out the far side, with the tumor hopfully gone, but level of fitness is shot to pieces and my abnormally huge lungs feel shot. According to the nurses, this is what most normal humans feel like and I was lucky to have had such a great physiology at the start.

My thought is long base leve rides, anyone else got any thoughts.

Start very slow and don't expect much at all. As a result of the chemo, I'm sure your body's has been severely deconditioned, maybe more than if you'd just spent a year or two on your ass.

I can't even begin to imagine how tough the chemo was and how you physically feel since it's done, but maybe I can give you an idea with my experience. In November, I had an organ transplant that had me in the hospital for 3 weeks and homebound, with virtually no activity beyond walking around and ****ting, allowed for another 6 weeks. When I was clear of that last 6 weeks, I got on the bike and was able to pedal just over 3 miles. It felt like pedaling at 20,000 ft. It's taken a lot longer to get on the road back to where I was before the surgery.

Talk to your doctors and see what they have to say. As I said though, don't carry any high expectations about how quickly you'll be able to pile on the miles.