Hi everyone,
Had my 1st Tax on Monday, after 3 fairly eventless FEC, and thought i had escaped the worst but boy was i wrong! Wednesday bought the aches and pains and weird mouth thing, thursday was just the most awful i have felt during chemo so far, nowhere was i comfortable and spent thursday and yesterday in bed feeling very sorry for myself.
What kept me going was coming on here and reading everyone elses experiences and realising and knowing this was “normal” and i wasn’t alone in how i was feeling. Today i have come out the other end and am feeling ok, the aches are almost gone and the yuk mouth is subsiding, thank goodness.
So i just wanted to thank everyone on here for their help and advice, it is invaluable when you are feeling low and you certainly help more than you know.
I’m so pleased you have come out the other side of this. I too came out of it on Thursday after 2 days of awful pains and terrible diarrhoea, unable to stand on some occasions.
Just wanted to echo what you have said, without the advice and support on this site I would have been terrified, it’s such a comfort to know there are so many people who can share experiences. Just such a shame there are so many of us.
Just had my second horrible day after Tax last Wednesday. I feel awful. Aches, pains, horrible mouth, sore throat, headache. etc etc . I just hope it doesn’t last much longer. I stayed in bed all day today and will try to do the same tomorrow. Will the next 2 tax be like this one?
Brenda, what is going on … I am the same. I have been great on 3 x FEC, but as you know had first tax on Wednesday and only just starting to feel normal. Thursday was not too bad, but Friday and onwards, wow, did I just jump in front of a bus or something. Feel like done 10 rounds with Mike Tyson. Back ache, neck ache, legs ache, alien thing in my mouth called a tongue, headache and soooooooooo tired!!! I was warned the first was the worst, but didn’t expect to feel this bad …
No chance me staying in bed, although had lie in today and not done much at all, apart from take daughter to 4th birthday party, but that was more sitting around while they ran riot.
Am hoping tomorrow start to get back to some normality, as hate feeling like this … and then makes my mind go into overdrive and what ifs all over again.
See some of you other ladies have mentioned diarrhoea, well am completely the opposite, like you really wanna know, but constipation is so bad …
Anyway, hope we all start to feel better and that No. 2 is easier for us. Fingers crossed.
Let’s hope the 2nd dose doesn’t hit so hard, I’ve never felt so ill in my life.
2 bad days though out of all of this and I’m sure I mustn’t grumble but my god, that was something else!
I felt practically hyperactive on Friday when I came out of it, which is the good news, went to the zoo, off gallavanting round the shops, like it had taken 2 days but given me back triple energy. Here’s hoping for the same for everyone currently suffering this.
If it helps I wasn’t so bad the second time around, though I agree it is much worse than FEC . What stayed for me was the foul mouth - now appraoching the last dose on Thursday and it is subsiding a bit but definitely still there. I get herceptin at the same time but doubt that makes any difference at all.
What a bad few days ! Just feel as though I am turning a corner today. Just got a few aches and very bad throat and mouth is so foul. Started with the runs yesterday. I suppose if No 2 is the same at least we know what to expect. My last one is due 21st November but daughter’s 21st party is on the 24th so I asked them last week if I could delay the chemo a week if I needed to. I know I certainly will after this weekend. Can you imagine how it used to be all those years ago feeling like this plus all the sickness that used to go with it.
This site has been great - I’ve learnt such a lot through others that the hospital don’t tell you about - all about the other “little” side effects and the only people who know what you are going through are all these wonderful women on here.