crashing in cycles

Hi Yes I get depressed and very sad and tearful about 7 to  10 days after my chemo.  I feel like giving up.  It's like dropping into a well.  Walking, talking and crying helps.  Then I wait and after a few days I feel better.  Until a few days before the next chemo when I get anxious.  It seems roughly about the same each cycle and I am in my fourth cycle.  I suspect that the steroids dexamethasone which they give with the chemo for nausea and which I take for 7- 10 days after buoys me up then when I leaves my system I get very low.  Also getting cancer is horrid and you have so little control and the treatment goes on for months.  Good luck.  I met a woman who had two different chemos and they were not successful, she has ovarian cancer and begged me to keep going with my chemo.  My family would also not let me.  There is a stage in the cycle when I feel quite positive and think I can do this.  My kind oncologist says chemo is the hardest thing most of us go through and his patients are his heroes.  He doesn't know how he would go with it.  Please hang in there.  Counseling may help.  The Cancer Council has a counseling service, you can read about it on their Internet site.  Writing up a journal for every day can surprisingly help a lot.  The very best of luck to you. Enjoy the good days, there usually are some.