Feeling crap - flu like?

@Finch Coloxyl helps me. New for me as well! Never really struggled with constipation until chemo...

@Sister I realised I forgot to fill in my side effects from the treatment since Tuesday so u reminded me to do that xo

@Finch my aches and pains have mostly started to subside today - couldn’t of done anything on Thursday and on Friday was quite flat too - possibly compounded by the Neulasta injection. My taste buds are still there but a little muted and seem a littler better tonight - I also feel like I have had a mouth coating for a couple of days but that was better tonight. I haven’t used the bathroom today but haven’t taken ducolax for a couple of day but will hopefully be ok soon. Don’t want my body to start relying on the tablets so I’m going to try and use them just round each dose. I have abit of itchiness at the base of my scalp where the cold cap would not of covered me so I don’t know if that is potentially good news for the rest of my hair or it just needs to catch up  Has been beautiful weather this weekend - managed to get out abit more today - hoping to be able to enjoy the next 2 days more before going back to work. Happy Easter

Diary sounds a great idea @Sister . I will start one. Like you @kiwiangel I haven't had any nausea. My aches and pains seemed to subside this morning, although still there a little. I feel more awake this evening. I got out in the garden today and yesterday for an hour or so and managed to fill a wheelbarrow. The weather has been glorious. My taste buds have left the building.  I do have tingling and a fuzzy feeling in my scalp. 
@kmakm @"Kiwi Angel" i agree with new normal. I'm taking coloxyl for the first time in my life.

@kmakm.  BC definately changes the new normal 

@"Kiwi Angel" Me too about the memory! It's quite a loss and I'm aware of it's absence intellectually but not actually when I'm not remembering. It's peculiar. I'm not a great pill taker either but, sigh, BC doesn't care...

@kmakm it’s good to know what to expect. I just keep looking at it as 1 down 3 to go and soon I will be halfway!!  I’m all about extra pain relief if I can have it. I’m not one for pill taking but in this situation give me whatever i can have!!  I have always been so proud of my memory and my boss relies on it a lot too

@"Kiwi Angel" It's a relief to no longer have the fear of the unknown! There's no way I could have worked through the first week of a TC cycle. Do bear in mind that it's cumulative. My aches & pains got worse each time so brilliant to get onto more pain relief earlier. I found the second cycle the easiest.

My son delights in pointing out my chemo brain, the little sod. He rolls his eyes and says things like "You've already asked me that three times Mum"!

@jennyss @Sister @kmakm. Starting to get a sense of the cycle as it seems to be relatively as everyone said it would be. Aches and pains from the afternoon of day 3 with the worst in day 4 (which I was planning to work in the future but will not be happening I don’t think), they are starting to get better slowly now but I think that i will be pretty much useless or mildly useless from day 4-7. Thank god though I have not suffered any nausea which is a blessing (so far that is). Joint pain is less but have sore neck muscles and a grey film on my tongue - definately got the metallic taste and filminess kick in about the same time as the ashes and pains. At the moment the chemo brain hasn’t kicked in so I’m able to know when things happened - will have to start keeping a diary though for later on. I will be asking my oncologist when I see her on Tuesday for some sleeping tablets and some extra pain relief for when the joint pain kick a in and panadol osteo just isn’t cutting it. Thanks for your fabulous advice as always ladies!

@"Kiwi Angel" and @Sister, The diary is a top idea. I found it very helpful too