AC Chemo - Days 6, 7 & 8 (the 'afterburn')
Hi all - been a few days since I have posted as I did encounter a shocker while trying to keep this BC secret from family found my posts were all over google and since my old ID was a combo of my inital and surname got 'dicovered' by a friend which had me then silent until profile was sorted....
I am happy to say days 6 - 8 were not hugely eventfull. The fire bum was at its worst on day 5 and even though any bowl movement in the followong days meant the repeats of my fire breathing via that orifice within and hour things would calm down.
I only wish I could say that my ground shattering farting episodes died down but alas they were plentifull and frankly could be heard outdoors even...
I swear they were that loud that every time another one happened it was simply like the that scene in a cartoon where the animals of the tundra are happily frolicking about, grazing or drinking until in one second they all freeze exchange frightened stares and then an earth shaking roar breaks, strong wind howls carrying all small animals, the others grab their young and scurry for cover and the camera shows the massive evil dark and gloomy predator on top of a mompunta or cliff or such... Well either that or a T-Rex type scene from the mamy Jurassic movies... But I am sure you get the idea...
All in all it is horribly - as in HORRIBLY LOUD... Well loud AND long and unexpected.
I do not understand how one woman's belly can produce that amount of gas - it is freaky. Yes, there is an 'afterburn' to it too - that now well familiar feeling of having one's backside bathed in hydrochloric acid... I guess I am used to it as I was not finding it as distressing.
I did still avoid human contact as my inability to predict my fiery gas expulsions made it very difficult for me to be exposed to people and make them victims of this sorry performance.
One very alarming thing for me was that I had on day 6 discovered that I had lost 3 kgs in those 6 days. I should say here that I am seriously overweight and there is plenty to.lose BUT 3 kgs in 5 days when drinking huge amounts of water and eating proper full meals should be impossible. Also while my fiery bowl movements were explosive and looser than one would desire I did not have the runs in the traditional sense of the word so not like I would have been loosing liquids.
I have had occasional moments of weakness and shakes during the previous few days so it all started to make sense. On day 8 by which my weight loss was close to full 4kg I contacted the Cancer Centre at my hospital and they too concluded that such weight loss was not normal so apart from contacting their dietitian who they want me to meet they will be running more tests on me when I go to see an Oncologist tomorrow.
I have decided to significantly increase food intake in the meanwhile as something that had previously not occured to me was mentioned and that is that chemo dosage is based on weight so one losing too much weight so soon after a session can be dangerous as in a way could be 'overdosing'....
So for 3 days I have pretty much doubled my food intake which did result in my feeling bloated and uncomfortable but until this is sorted I guess that is how it has to be. Weirdly all that food is not adding weight - still 4kg down but at least not really plummeting so it is a positive.
As far as other sideeffects go they are not too bad - still get tinnitus, but not getting as tired any more and happy to say that the coating on the tongue is lightening up. Day 8 I have started to see nice pink patches and the other still coated areas nowhere near as strongly coated so yay for that ??
Jel.
