I always say my steroids (dexamethasone) don’t affect me too much but they obviously do. I’ve been unable to get back to sleep for 2 hours after waking for my usual nightly wee. I resisted getting my phone or iPad out for the 1st hour, then gave in! Will try to sleep again now but knowing my luck I’ll just drop off before the dog wakes at 6:30! Usually that not a problem as I let him out and feed him then go back to sleep for a couple of hours, but I can’t today as need to be up at 7 to leave at 7:45 for chemo! Hopefully I’ll get a snooze during chemo, I think I’ll take my daily antihistamine this morning, rather than this evening, and see if that helps make me drowsy!
I hope everyone with treatments this week is doing ok. I had a few hours of uncertainty after Monday’s bloods as to whether my chemo would happen today as my neurtophils were low on the instant test. Luckily by the time I saw the Oncologist 2 hours later the full lab results were through and the level had been amended to 1.5 which he said is the cut off to be ok, still below the 2 it’s meant to be. A bit worrying as I seem to be on a downward trend, even on 7 Filgrastim injections each cycle, 1 was 1.6 prior to 4th cycle. I’m already expecting a concern again for my last cycle in 3 weeks time.