Dexamethasone

You can be reasonably flexible with the timing. I reckon that as long as you don't take later than 2pm, you should be ok. I say "should" as they do have quite severe effects-at least for me.They keep me awake-but it's not because I don't feel  tired-although they help with energy levels, it tends to be a "buzzy" not very nice feeling. Consequently I only take one dose rather than the two prescribed-and find I can cope a bit better with this.

I was surprised that it was primarily to help with nausea-I thought it was just to give me an energy boost! But, if you find after your first treatement that the nausea isn't bad, you could reduce, and use the anti nausea tabs instead. I get a dose of the steroids by IV before the chemo, and have found that I can quite easily reduce the oral steroids.Like hrf, I find it plays havoc with my sleep patterns-at a  time when you really need sleep. The effect does linger for a while-so maybe have a few good books to hand for restless nights! Good luck.

I took it when I was having chemo too - it was the only thing that helped my nausea.  I sure loved that little pill.  lol!  I took it twice a day I believe, every 12 hours or so, once during the day and then during the evening.  I never had problems sleeping when I took it.  Just make sure you take it with food because it can be very hard on your stomach I hear.

I took it too.  They told me not to take the end of day dose late in the evening or you won't sleep.  I took one in the morning around 9 and the evening one around 8pm.  I don't usually go to bed until 12 or 1 so it was a long enough time that it didn't disturb the sleep 'too bad'.

Yes, it's an antinauseant as well.

I took it on an empty stomach for almost a year before I figured it out that if you take it with food, that crazy wired feeling is lessened - still not gone, but not so much.  I found that although I had the energy, it was misdirected energy because my mind had trouble focussing on things.  Good things for me would be raking leaves, ironing, laundry, grab a bottle of Pledge and dust - things that were no brainers because again, my mind would race.