Anyone had a cold during chemo?

Cathy,

I caught a whopper half way through my treatment.  It did hang on a bit longer...but nothing out of the ordinary.  No delay in treatment at all.

Feel better!

Bugs

I caught several colds from my kids during chemo.  It was during the winter, so cold season was in full swing.  I found they lasted longer and the symptoms (sore throat, runny nose, general malaise) were noticeably worse.  I was on a once every 3rd week chemo schedule, so I never had to delay treatment.  Try lots of fluids and as much sleep as you can get to try and shake it.

I was on a 3 week cycle and came down with a flu bug about 5 days after my second chemo.  I called the onc at about 11:00 at night when my temperature spiked up, he had be go in the next day to have my blood counts checked.  Counts were still good so I was sent up to see my PCP who did a strep test that came back negative.  PCP prescribed antibiotics and a mouth swizzle for the severe sore throat.  I felt horrid for about a week but was well enough to get round 3 right on schedule.

I caught a cold under chemo but the remedy to that is to wear a very thick wool scarf around your neck all day n especially atnight to sweat the cold out of ur body , drink a lot of tea with honey, n eat oranges n kiwi.

don't take vitamines C cause they say it interfers with chemo drugs by making them less powerful.

just get ur vitamines from fruits.

Lots of love!

I see you had taxol in your treatment and I want to ask you how you got through it? I just had my first dose of taxol out of 4 and its pretty painful. So what helped you?

I seem to have caught a cold or the flu. Symptoms started about 5 days ago, but I was associating them with allergies! Now I have a fever of 100.5, severe body aches, sore throat with nose bleeds. I'm not sure if my last Taxol treatment on April 4th is to blame for some of those symptoms. It kind of kicked into high gear yesterday morning with the achiness and severe congestion. Fever went up a bit today but my hubby called the onc and they didn't seem too concerned as my blood work is looking okay at the moment. Any advice for the aches?!

I got a cold during Chemo, but my Nurse Practitioner made me come in and see her

before Chemo to make sure I was okay.  I was able to proceed because she thought

I looked good!  LOL!

usually when I get a cold, I feel like it stays in my throat. I feel now as though this is wet and yucky and has moved into my lungs. I'm having trouble taking deep breaths. I'm going to the doctor today.