What should I do if I have no energy six months after chemotherapy for colon cancer?

Weakness of body after half a year of chemotherapy for colon cancer may be caused by anemia, malnutrition or cardiovascular side effects. 1. Anemia: drugs after chemotherapy may affect the patient’s body, which may cause the patient’s hemoglobin to decline, and then anemia and other conditions lead to fatigue. This can be alleviated by eating iron-rich foods, such as animal blood, animal offal, or blood transfusion, erythropoietin, etc. 2. Malnutrition: Chemotherapy may cause digestive reactions, resulting in slowed absorption of nutrients, insufficient intake, hypoglycemia, hypotension, etc., leading to fatigue. You can take probiotics to relieve digestive symptoms, and choose high-energy, high-nutrition foods to eat. 3. Cardiovascular side effects: chemotherapy drugs can lead to slow heart rate, atrioventricular block and other cardiovascular side effects, you can go to the hospital according to the doctor’s guidance to choose targeted drugs such as isoproterenol to carry out treatment.

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