TREATMENT OF SYMPTOMS – INTRODUCTION
Friday, May 15, 2009 6:39Symptoms are what you feel— things such as pain, nausea, lack of energy and breathlessness. In this chapter we will talk about how to tackle symptoms that worry you for any reason.
Of course, now that you have cancer, I know that every symptom you get will worry you to start with. You probably feel a stab of panic whenever you notice any minor discomfort in your body because this could signal that your cancer is active. This reaction is natural and normal.
I suggest that whenever you get any new symptoms, you stop and ask yourself these questions:
Is this symptom one that I would have worried about before I had the cancer?
Would I have contacted my practitioner about it?
Is there a commonsense explanation for it?
(For example, unusual activity that could have caused muscle pains, something you ate that could have caused nausea or indigestion, tension that could have caused a headache.) The answers to these question will help you to decide what action you should take. For example, if you would, have waited a few days to see how it went before you had cancer, that’s probably still what you should do.
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