Meds before Chemo
Hi all you wonderful women! Just wondering why I have not been given any meds to take the night before chemo? I am triple negative and starting on 4 x AC every 2 weeks and then 4 x taxol every 2 week...
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@TripleTea, I had a lot of side effects with FEC.
from memory, nausea was low grade but constant, not to the point of vomiting. I took the Maxalon that was supplied, but it didn't help much. In the end I just took it at night so I didn't wake up feeling too sick.
The Oncologist was reluctant to try other Antinausea meds because of my Migraine and the preventatives I was on, he said they affected something in the brain that could make them worse, so I didn't find out if anything else would have been better.
I did drink lots of ginger beer, ginger ale and cups of tea with honey, I found that helped the nausea a bit. I had to drink water with a little apple and raspberry cordial in it as plain water also made me feel ill.
A lot of my nauseous feeling was more to do with the metallic taste in my mouth, that really got to me. Unfortunately that was not better with Docetaxel.
The nausea was not such a problem with Docetaxel, that had its own set of problems.
I did find that the second dose of FEC was better tolerated, and I was better at managing the side effects, and the third dose was different again. Yes, better as I went along.
It was great that I could predict how I would get better on FEC, usually by day 10 I was starting to feel human and the third week after I felt full of energy and almost normal.
from memory, nausea was low grade but constant, not to the point of vomiting. I took the Maxalon that was supplied, but it didn't help much. In the end I just took it at night so I didn't wake up feeling too sick.
The Oncologist was reluctant to try other Antinausea meds because of my Migraine and the preventatives I was on, he said they affected something in the brain that could make them worse, so I didn't find out if anything else would have been better.
I did drink lots of ginger beer, ginger ale and cups of tea with honey, I found that helped the nausea a bit. I had to drink water with a little apple and raspberry cordial in it as plain water also made me feel ill.
A lot of my nauseous feeling was more to do with the metallic taste in my mouth, that really got to me. Unfortunately that was not better with Docetaxel.
The nausea was not such a problem with Docetaxel, that had its own set of problems.
I did find that the second dose of FEC was better tolerated, and I was better at managing the side effects, and the third dose was different again. Yes, better as I went along.
It was great that I could predict how I would get better on FEC, usually by day 10 I was starting to feel human and the third week after I felt full of energy and almost normal.