Yikes...25 year old man here with a tumor..

slapshot_81 said:

nausea
I had the same problem with the Zophran and constipation, but the amount of fruit I ate sort of off set it. You may want to try taking a stool softener, I did during the 2nd and 3rd round.

Funny sorry, well now it is, at the time I thought was going to die!!! I had finished my 1st round of chemo and was feeling great, I was still taking the zophran a few days after the treatment, I didn't need it but took it anyway (wy wife is a cancer nurse and made me take it to stay ahead of the nausea), I had a craving for buffalo chicken pizza so I ordered one for dinner, man it tasted good going down. About 2am I woke and thought someone had stabbed me in the stomach, the pressure down below was unbearable!!!!!! The chesse from the pizza interacted with the zophran and bound me up something fierce. I called my onc nurse and she said to take a stool softener and drink a glass of Miralax, this was about 7:30am, so I did. About 2 o'clock that afternoon, I thought the world was coming to an end!!! I never thought having a BM could feel so good, I know it's gross, but sort of funny now.

I had melatonin as well. Ativan is precription, pill form, used as an anti-nausea med but does make you sleepy, I found it helpful at night when I couldn't sleep.

During cycles I felt great so if I didn't need the meds I didn't take them.

On my treatment days I would go in early, about 6:30am, I live about 15min. from Dana Farber, so I would be hooked up with the hydration fluid by 7:30, chemo infusions would start around 9:30, so I would be out by 1 or 2pm.

surgery
Glad to hear a success story re: chemo w/out a RPLNG followup. My guy says that's what we're going for but hadn't heard from too many people who didn't have it. Scares the heck outa' me.