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I Had steroids with each treatment so I was not sick behind the chemo. I had different issues each time. The third day behind the treatment is when I would have side effects. Once my feet hurt so bad I could not walk, but that cleared up after a couple of days. Once I just felt weak and very low energy. Then there was chemo brain but it all passed.
@A MyBCTeam Member - use tea tree oil on your nails - works good
Tiredness and mostly nausea but let your doc know if you have these side effects they can give you something for them. Also eat and stay hydrated.
I completed 4 rounds of TC. I had itchy scalp in the days and weeks following my first treatment, this was BEFORE my hair fell out. Infernally itchy, like torture. I saw two dermatologists before they prescribed a topical steroid that controlled the itching. My skin overall was sensitive and prone to itching.
About 3/4 of my hair fell out. I lost a lot of eyebrow and eyelash, but not all thankfully. My hair started growing back two months after I concluded treatment.
I never had nausea, but I couldn't taste most food. That made food pretty unappealing. I'd think an apple would be nice to eat and then I'd bite into it and no flavor. Still, I forced myself to eat healthy food based on Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book Eat to Live.
Plain water tasted like Crisco. I craved onions and vinegar! Cucumbers, onions and vinegar was the tastiest and most refreshing dish. Anything raw and crunchy was pretty good.
Mostly, chemo felt like a big hangover. I just felt irritated and didn't want to see anyone in the third and fourth days after treatment - then each day would get better, until at the three week point I'd have another treatment. I used to force myself to eat steamed broccoli to help detox faster.
I didn't miss any work because the third and fourth days were scheduled to fall on the weekend.
The worst, along with the itching, was the Nulasta shot they give you the day after chemo, that cause a lot of achy leg pain on the third and fourth days and I had to get some painkiller from my doctor.
My cardio capacity was reduced - I'd get winded going up stairs or riding my bike up a hill where I never got winded before. It took a good two following the conclusion of treatment for that windedness to go aware and for full cardio capacity to come back.
Also my fingernails got weird. Like thick and knobby. They returned to normal really quickly.
Yes, each person is different. Thankfully, nowdays, meds are frequently mixed with the chemo cocktails to ward off the really bad
side effects.
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