Recently diagnosed

Hi everyone,

Thankyou for all of your comments.  I have had my first round of chemo. To tell the honest truth, I was ok with it, I had my anti nausea tablets, plus some that had already been prescribed for me at the hospital. I suffered nausea from them taking off my chest wall drainage tube in the hospital and I told the pharmacist when she returned about getting nausea and she prescribed Pramin for me, which I carry around with me, but have only needed to use one, because when the district nurse came to take off my other drainage tube, I got it again.

So I suffered more nausea from the removal of my drainage tubes than I did from this first round of chemo.

I tell you what symptoms I did suffer and they were annoying ones more than anything else. Jelly like legs (which I often get when it is period time), some hot flushes, indigestion and not being regular.   While I say I was quite ok with it all this time round, it did take a full week to return to my best again.

I will speak to my oncologist about the indigestion, I have heard from others who have had BC have had similar indigestion problems.  I ate lots more fruit and vegies, plus more yogurt, but still suffered from it.  It was embarassing and annoying.

My next lot is on the 18th, blood check on 17th, have not lost any hair as yet. I get told different things, my hair is quite thick and I was told by one oncologist nurse that the treatment I am on will thin my hair out just a bit.

So for me it is one down and three to go, which takes me to the end of December. And then the radiation treatment.

Did anyone see Sally from Today Tonight being interviewed last night, a beautiful baby girl, then the diagnosis of breast cancer, she is also in one of this weeks mags?

Yvonne