Decadron and loss of taste and smell

diazr1

Anyone else experience this ?

NANCYL1

LOSS OF TASTE AND SMELL
I have had a temporary loss of taste from Barium before a CT-SCAN.

I have had Rituxan infusions once each week for the past 3 weeks and have noted a loss of taste today. Hope it is temporary. One more infusion next week. Finished for 6 months.

Do not know anything about "Decadron."

Nancy.

diazr1

NANCYL1 said:

LOSS OF TASTE AND SMELL
I have had a temporary loss of taste from Barium before a CT-SCAN.

I have had Rituxan infusions once each week for the past 3 weeks and have noted a loss of taste today. Hope it is temporary. One more infusion next week. Finished for 6 months.

Do not know anything about "Decadron."

Nancy.

ummmm ok

ummmm ok

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3

NANCYL1 said:

LOSS OF TASTE AND SMELL
I have had a temporary loss of taste from Barium before a CT-SCAN.

I have had Rituxan infusions once each week for the past 3 weeks and have noted a loss of taste today. Hope it is temporary. One more infusion next week. Finished for 6 months.

Do not know anything about "Decadron."

Nancy.

Taste
Nancy,

I checked a chemo drug site, and neither Decadron or Rituxan ordinarily cause changes in taste sensitivity (many other chemo drugs do, but not these two).

Rituxan fairly commonly causes a "sore throat" sensation, but that does not sound like what you are describing.

Decadron's most common side-effects are changes in blood sugar for diabetics, and blood pressure, but of course these are not taste-related either.

Dysgeusia (loss or change in the sense of taste) is a side-effect that almost always goes away after treatment -- sort of like hair loss. Probably 95% of chemo patients who lose their hair from the drugs regrow it after the infusions end. Vinblastine caused me to lose pretty much all of my sense of taste, but within a month or so after treatment, it had returned to about what it seemed like before treatment.

It would be free to ask the doc, of course, and I found that my infusion nurses were usually very familiar with the possible side-effects of the drugs they were giving me.

max

NANCYL1

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 said:

Taste
Nancy,

I checked a chemo drug site, and neither Decadron or Rituxan ordinarily cause changes in taste sensitivity (many other chemo drugs do, but not these two).

Rituxan fairly commonly causes a "sore throat" sensation, but that does not sound like what you are describing.

Decadron's most common side-effects are changes in blood sugar for diabetics, and blood pressure, but of course these are not taste-related either.

Dysgeusia (loss or change in the sense of taste) is a side-effect that almost always goes away after treatment -- sort of like hair loss. Probably 95% of chemo patients who lose their hair from the drugs regrow it after the infusions end. Vinblastine caused me to lose pretty much all of my sense of taste, but within a month or so after treatment, it had returned to about what it seemed like before treatment.

It would be free to ask the doc, of course, and I found that my infusion nurses were usually very familiar with the possible side-effects of the drugs they were giving me.

max

TASTE

Max:

I have a Rituxan infusion next Tuesday. The last for this year. Two more "sets" of four next year. Will check with nurse practioner on Monday at appointment.

Nancy