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Chemo. Not as fun as you'd might think.
So yeah. I've just signed up to BCNA online group thingies. It's a bit baffling to navigate (I'm used to more standard bulletin board type forums) but I guess I'll work it out eventually.
I'm reaso...
Yeah, I have 3 cycles of D after the FEC. NOT looking forward to it at all.
I did call the community nurse on day 1 and had a maxalon injection but it didn't do much - just stopped the retching enough so I could eat my dinner on day 1 (I had to eat dinner for some medications I'm on - unrelated to breast cancer stuff). So I gave up on that.
I went in to the chemo ward the day after I had the chemo and was essentially told I shouldn't have any nausea with the huge amount of drugs I was given and maybe it was just the expectation of getting nausea that caused the nausea (because I had post operative nausea and vomiting a month earlier and associated it with being in hospital for chemo or something? I dunno). I was given benzos which kind of helped but I've read about the withdrawal symptoms (scary!) so now I'm just drinking lots of ginger flavoured stuff. Nausea has eased enough that I didn't even bother with maxalon this morning with breakfast.
I'm hoping the next 2 weeks before the next cycle don't have much nausea. If I'm tired and dizzy, that's fine - I can cope with that.