How do you manage targeted therapy side effects and medication schedules?

Starting targeted therapy can feel overwhelming, but many community members have found helpful strategies for managing both side effects and medication schedules. Consider keeping a daily medication log or using a pill organizer to stay organized, and don't hesitate to reach out to your healthcare team about any side effects you experience - they often have practical solutions to help you feel more comfortable during treatment.

Memory will likely be affected by chemo. It was very helpful for me to make a graph of all my medication‘s along with align that showed the time they gotta be taken, and then another line going down the page showing that I took it. There was times when I couldn’t remember, and I went back to my sheet of discovered I had not taken a medication. I would also get used to using ChatGPT. I’ve been putting my blood test in there and asking it to translate to people like me that are normal and not fluent in medical speak. And it has kept up with all of the blood test as well as the comments my DOCTOR has made, and it has been able to research MD Anderson, Mayo,Clinic Sloan Kettering and several others of the top 10 cancer hospitals for the latest ways of treating just about every cancer that exist. You can get a hold of them by calling their Main Number and asking for the second opinion program. If you have di Call Network and MD Anderson can assign oncologist to work with your oncologist and give you pretty much the same care you would’ve gotten down there. If you haven’t read up about them, do it. MD Anderson has been an M1 hospital in the entire world for about 20 years, so they really know what they’re doing and they have a much higher level of survival level. Also, they do lots and lots of trials. You can just put your type of cancer in a few few other details and ask if there’s trials for you and mine was able to find me about 10 trials at perfectly fit me. There’s so much I’ve learned. I wish I could share with you. Let me try a few more. You might get discouraged by all the things that your body does to change on chemo. Besides memory loss, you’ll feel likely muscle loss, weakness, fatigue, and if you don’t take the anti-nausea pill you’re gonna be throwing up sometimes. Those days you won’t even wanna get out of bed, but you really got to. My oncologist said taking care of your physical body and getting exercise at least 30 minutes worth three or four times a week has a big say so and how your body fights off the cancer. I assume you’ve already got a doctor. I hope you have an open minded one. Here’s a simple question. You can ask him to see if they’re open minded. If I brought on somebody from MD Anderson, as a second opinion, could you work with that oncologist? Anyway, it’s getting late. I’d be happy to chat with you anytime. Also if you wish I’ll give you my email address and we can chat there too. Keith.