4. Anemia
Chemotherapy lowers the amount of red blood cells which can lead to anemia. Anemia can make a person feel light-headed and dizzy, have a pallor complexion, bruise easily, shiver often, become prone to infections, and generally feel unwell.
6 Common Chemotherapy Side Effects
One bad side effect of chemo for breast cancer patients is closing of your tear ducts. I confronted oncologist- said they didn’t know. Called opthamologist and he said it is quite common for cancer patients. He said if I had started on the eye drops b4 I started chemo I wouldn’t have had the problem. Tears going down your face. He had to clip my tear ducts to open them again. Wasn’t sure it would work but it did- thank goodness.
Hi Evelyn. Thank you for sharing that experience with our readers and we are glad that you were able to get some help with this.