My wife

Ed-Ana

My wife has Stage two and started her 1st chemo session on 10/24. Friday was a lot of nausea and she was able to take small water amts. she slept a lot. Saturday was no nausea and she started eating solid foods but still sleeping a lot. By Sunday here apetite was back. She is on the AT program (Adriamycin and Taxol). I wanted to know if anyone could tell us what to expect after her 2nd treatment?

SelenaWolf

Everybody responds differently to treatment.  I had AC+T (Adriamycin and Cytoxan, followed by Taxol) and experienced no nausea whatsoever throughout treatment.  However, I did grow increasingly tired as treatment progressed and it took me longer each time to "bounce back".  I, also, found (as treatment progressed) I could only eat what I came to call the "white foods": bananas, pasta, potatoes, rice, yoghurt, cottage cheese, and bread; largely, because of the horrible metallic taste I always seemed to have in my mouth.  Anything with any acid in it (i.e., tomatoes, most fruit) caused the most horrendous reflux, which Gaviscon helped with.  I kept my hair until after my third treatment, then it all fell out in 24-48 hours.  Woosh!  Hair gone.  My toes went a little numb and were extremely sensitive to changes in temperature (warm bathwater made them burn, cold air - even with lined boots on - made them ache) and injury was excrutiating.  Stubbing my toe one day hurt so horribly, I started to wear sturdy hiking boots in the house.

mdg

I was on a different chemo, but everyone does respond differently. My first chemo was my hardest....they were easier from then on. I would talk to her doctor because she should not have to suffer with nausea. My doctor gave me three different rx's for different medications to help with nausea to have on hand in case I needed them. Fortunately I never had any nausea and never needed them at all. Good luck to you and your wife!

Ed-Ana

Thank you for the info. its much easier to deal with the side effects when you know what they are. We've prepared for the worst but are praying for the best

Ed-Ana

We already have the nausea meds and I also made some ginger water. The important thing is she made it thru and recovered rather quickly. Even our Dr was surprised. Thanks for your input

Ed-Ana

We just completed chemo session #2 and I have to say she is doing pretty good. Of course tomorrow will be the real test since it will be the day after. But I have a question. Have any of you experienced drop in your blood pressure? She had to stop taking her BP meds because of it. Just wanted to hear from others.

JenSF

Hi Ed-Ana,

I had my 2nd CT today. Different regimen than your wife. Feeling a bit more tired than the first tx.

There is a October chemotherapy thread if you search. You will find many ACT ladies who had been through many phases and different SE. Great group. Check it out.

Jen

Maureen1

Ed-Ana...how thoughtful of you to reach out to try to help your wife, I hope she is doing well this evening...as others have said, we all adapt to chemo differently and learn what we have to do to get thru it...my MO gave me 3 different meds to prevent the nausea so I didn't have any but there were quite a few other side effects - as Jen said you will find so many tips on the chemo threads. One important thing for me was to drink lots of water...as for her blood pressure, it may have gone down due to the the anti-nausea meds. (((Jen))) I hope you're doing well too...Hang in there...(((Hugs))) to both of you, Maureen

Ed-Ana

My wife just went thru her 2nd treatment last week 11/7 Thurs. On Thurs and Fri she was fine, healthy appetite, no nausea, After she got the neulesta shot on Friday (for increasing the white cell count) she began to get headaches. We were told by our Dr to expect aches in the big joints but not headaches. Since the skull is one big bone, I think this may be the cause of her headaches. Has anyone experienced this?

She is also going back to work after 5 days down time. Has anyone done this too? How long did you work? When did you stop working?

Hoolianama0508

Hope she is feeling better. I was able to get anti nausea medication in suppository form. It helped me tremendously. On the days I got my chemo infusions, I went home and took the medication.