Hi, Ho, HI, Ho it's off to chemo I go

Maria
Right back at you! Good luck and happy thoughts coming your way. Take it easy and stay in touch.

Verna

Mwee
I find it hard to picture you being B*****Y, your picture and your posts are sweet. Good luck with your chemo, I hope you get thru it as esasily as possible with the best of results!
Colleen

Sounds like a plan!
Sounds like a plan! Thinking of you.

Radioactive34 said:

Roid rage
OMG...they said all those steriods would make me feel kind of euphoric. Ummmm....it is not here yet.

I had a LOT of steroids - 18
I had a LOT of steroids - 18 months of chemo plus a case of trigger thumb that they initially treated with Prednisone. They never made me "euphoric", but I did have a lot of energy.

My husband takes injections of Testosterone (which I inject into his butt, with a very long needle....he he) because his circulating Testosterone levels are low. I hate what they they do to him. He doesn't go into a rage, but I can definitely see a change. They really make him grouchy. Not physically agressive or anything like that, but certainly more "macho" than normal.

I have a girlfriend who took steroids for something (I forget what) over a long period of time, and she said they gave her a terrible sense of well-being. Maybe that was her way of saying "euphoria." But whatever it was, she didn't like it.

Carlene

I feel ya sister
I too had chemo today. I got there at 9:30 and didn't get out till 5pm. The steroids always make have a heard time sleeping. I hope yours goes well.

kayandok said:

Hope the cis/gem
knocks those babies out of there for you! It knocked my CA down to 18, for which I was grateful. I had such horrific headaches when I had the cis/gem and I finally figured out it was the steroids, so going forward it has been very few for me (I think 3mg on the dose dense taxol) and now down to zero on the topo. No headaches and minimal side effects, I think the steroids were causing more side effects than the chemo for me.
Take care Maria!
kathleen

Go for it!
Dear Maria

You will definitely be missed around here while you go back into battle. Just to let you know, I opted out of the steroids--I agreed to take them if it looked like I was having an allergic reaction but I just did Benedryl & Zofran for pre-meds and never had a problem with an allergic reaction.

Wishing the very best outcome for you,

Carolen

Thinking of you..
Take care, Maria. Hopefully, you'll not have complications this time from the steroids. See you on the board soon.

Love you too,
Betty