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Is it safe to do sports right after chemotherapy ends?
My chemotherapy treatment will, tentatively end in a month or so. While I'm still not as fit as I was before, I want to do some sport activities after the treatment finished, they're not going to be a very demanding sports but more recreational ones like water polo, or cycling, nothing serious. My mom disagree with the idea and told me to wait until I'm fully recovered, but that will take such a long time and I'm very bored most of the time, kinda miss the old days when I was physically active. Do you guys have any experience regarding this matter?
My background:
24 years old, 5 years history of Crohn's Disease, was taking Himura for 2.5 years but immediately stopped after they found 4 cm cecal mass (B cell Burkitt's Lymphoma) on colonoscopy. Undergoing chemotherapy for 5 moths so far, and the Crohn's is currently in partial remission. I do light exercises like cardio and fitness ball during chemo.
The possibility on getting injured is what I concern the most, will it disrupt the recovery process?
5 Answers
- aprilLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Nobody but your body can tell you if you're up to more strenuous activities. I was completely fatigued and could barely walk from one room to the next.
I got plenty of bumps and bruises while on chemo and it didn't disrupt mine.
Source(s): i had brain cancer - ?Lv 710 years ago
Your risk of opportunistic infections is greatly increased during and after chemo so it would be wise to make plain to your doctor what it is that you intend to do so the both of you can go over your labs and see if your platelets other cell counts are at a safe enough level to take those risks.
Quality of life is one of your doctor's main goals so don't think there will be an automatic bias against exercise and sports. Just get the information you need to make the right decisions.
So glad you're enjoying some relief from the Crohn's and I hope you'll do what you need to do to get that lymphoma killed.
- formerly_bobLv 710 years ago
Exercise improves the outcome in most cancer treatments - sometimes significantly. I don't know if there is something unusual about Burkitt's that would make it different from other Lymphomas with regard to exercise. Anything you are capable of doing without wiping yourself out for the next few days is likely to be beneficial for cancer treatment and also for Chron's.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Exercise is always good unless you are at risk of injury
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