silly side effect from first day of chemo

hi everyone,

i had a long day yesterday at the chemo clinic. after seeing the doc and getting bw, joined the other early birds in the great room for my many bags of chemo, (flofiri) some very little (flushes) some medium and some large, along with pushes of 5fu and the anti nausea meds. after getting drowsy from the benadryl i was napping but was "aroused" from sleep by a stinging sensation, um, down under. after a few minutes i discreetly motioned the cute, blond chemo nurse over and quietly described what i was experiencing, hoping for an answer, what i got was a puzzled, almost uncomfortable expression form her face, thought i might get kicked out of chemo my first day. and to add to the embarrassment i was only getting one of the flush bags at the time. she thought a minute and then remembered that she had heard of people complaining of an "ants in your pants" feeling sometimes with decadron. i told her that was a good way to describe it. i remember when i had my CT scan the nurse told me before injecting the contrast that i would feel like i had wet my pants but i hadn't. that was very courteous of her, she was right. i had not read anything about this however on any message board or drug information sheets.
thankfully the feeling just stopped. so if this happens to you just take the old alabama phrase "i feel like i got ants in my pants" instead of whispering, "psst, hey kellie, my privates are kinda hot." like i did. i think they should but "ants in your pants feeling" in the drug literature under side effects.

thanks for letting me share, hope it was not TMI, can't put this on facebook.

love,
amber