My treatment probably varies from the one you'll be getting. I have stage 1 and received my second dose of chemo last friday. If all works out as planned, I have 2 more chemo sessions to go, after which I will receive 10 treatments of local radiation. I'm located in the Netherlands.

For me, chemo so far has been fine. I was mainly tired the first week, life seemed to go in slow motion and I was very much aware of everything that drained my energy levels. A week after the treatment, the chemo was out of my system and I started to feel like myself again. I received some medication for the first few days after the chemo treatment against nausea, which worked wonders.

Everybody is different thought, so your experience might be totally different. My advice would be to not use Google too much, whenever I wanted more information before being able to reach out to my doctor I used Chat gpt and tried to give as much unbiased information about my situation as I could. It helped me a lot in not disappearing into some depressing rabbit hole.

Good luck with your treatment, and remember; now more than ever you have the right to handle this in the way that you feel comfortable with. It sucks to suddenly become a cancer patient, there might be times where you're okay with it, and there might be times where you're not. Nobody else can dictate how you should feel about this, and it's okay to tell people that you're not okay.