1st Chemo today!

gerrico1216
gerrico1216 Member Posts: 41
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Hello all, I start 1 st chemo today. Scared out my butt. This weekend I had all kinds of emotions going on.(Maybe from steroids) My husband tried to comfort me. Once you get through the surgerys, then feeling somewhat ok. Then its chemo making you feel bad again.

I think once I get this 1st over. I think I will somewhat ok. Hopefully nausea feeling won't be bad. Since my surgeries I have nausea at least 4 days week now.

Everyone here are so comforting I want to thank everyone for your post. Some have help me just by reading them.

Thank you ALL God Bless
Hugs
Darlene

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  • jaavon2002
    jaavon2002 Member Posts: 57
    #2
    Hope all goes well...
    I hope all goes well with your first treatment. I can't give any words from experience, my treatments start Thursday. But what I hear from the wonderful ladies on this site is that chemo is doable!! Im nerveous already and it's not Thursday yet. Good luck and relax!!
  • celinelvr
    celinelvr Member Posts: 30
    #3
    Made it through my first
    Made it through my first chemo Feb. 24. I remember how scared I was! But, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I am on taxotere and cytoxin. My next chemo is tomorrow. I am not looking forward to it, I hope I react the same as last time. Take a book or a CD to listen to. Keeps your mind off things....(Of course I listen to Celine Dion!) You will be ok, I'm sure, I was. Hang in there. We can get through this together. Love and Peace my sister.
    ~ Milly
  • Mikes Sunshine
    Mikes Sunshine Member Posts: 129
    #4
    celinelvr said:

    Made it through my first
    Made it through my first chemo Feb. 24. I remember how scared I was! But, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I am on taxotere and cytoxin. My next chemo is tomorrow. I am not looking forward to it, I hope I react the same as last time. Take a book or a CD to listen to. Keeps your mind off things....(Of course I listen to Celine Dion!) You will be ok, I'm sure, I was. Hang in there. We can get through this together. Love and Peace my sister.
    ~ Milly

    first treatment
    Darlene, You can do this! One of our lovely sisters in pink (moopey) gave me some advice before my first treatment that made all the difference in the world to me, so I am going to pass it on to you and hope that it helps you as much as it did me. I was scared to death of having chemo. I lost my 1st husband to lung cancer 8 years ago. The only experience I had with chemo was watching him go thru it. His was not a good one. I think they have come along way with medications in 8 years. I have not had anything near what he went thru. Anyway I was getting ready to go for my 1st treatment thinking oh god they are going to pump all this poison into me and I will be so sick. Well Moopy changed all that. She told me to try and keep my mind opened and think of the drugs as Warriors. That they would come into my body and help me fight this battle. Such a simple statement, but it changed my whole thinking. I now welcome those drugs into my body everytime and tell them to get in there and fight like hell. I sure hopes this helps you as much as it helped me. Love Nancy
  • Jan_M
    Jan_M Member Posts: 116
    #5
    After your first chemo you
    After your first chemo you will see how your body reacts and that should be a baseline of how it should go with the next ones. Everyone has a diff. exper. It is so much better after the first because you know what to expect.

    Are you getting the neulastra shot? I got the shot the day after each chemo, so I don't know if the chemo or the shot was making me feel like I had the flu. My next chemo I will not get the shot so I will see what the chemo by itself does.

    I chew alot of gum to get rid of the bad taste. Also I eat small snacks instead of regular meals. I do not like to let my stomach get empty because then I get a little sick. As other posters say Drink Drink Drink water.

    Big Hug to all who are starting this journey. Remember we have all been there.
  • gerrico1216
    gerrico1216 Member Posts: 41
    #6
    Jan_M said:

    After your first chemo you
    After your first chemo you will see how your body reacts and that should be a baseline of how it should go with the next ones. Everyone has a diff. exper. It is so much better after the first because you know what to expect.

    Are you getting the neulastra shot? I got the shot the day after each chemo, so I don't know if the chemo or the shot was making me feel like I had the flu. My next chemo I will not get the shot so I will see what the chemo by itself does.

    I chew alot of gum to get rid of the bad taste. Also I eat small snacks instead of regular meals. I do not like to let my stomach get empty because then I get a little sick. As other posters say Drink Drink Drink water.

    Big Hug to all who are starting this journey. Remember we have all been there.

    Went good today
    Everything went well. all three meds (TAC). Anti nausea meds are good. Just tired. Feeling a little nausea not bad. Took nausea pill waiting to kick in. Get the Neulasta shot tomorrow at 11am. This Journey is rough. But we get through this with faith.

    Thank you
    God Bless

    Darlene
  • mmontero38
    mmontero38 Member Posts: 1,510
    #7
    Hey Darlene, wishing you all
    Hey Darlene, wishing you all the best for today. Make sure you drink lots of water and keep up with the nausea medicines. Eat a light snack and remember that the chemo is your friend, not your worst enemy. Sending you cyber <<<<<<<<HUGS>>>>>>>>. Let us know how you make out. Lili
  • rjjj
    rjjj Member Posts: 1,822 Member
    #8
    gerrico1216 said:

    Went good today
    Everything went well. all three meds (TAC). Anti nausea meds are good. Just tired. Feeling a little nausea not bad. Took nausea pill waiting to kick in. Get the Neulasta shot tomorrow at 11am. This Journey is rough. But we get through this with faith.

    Thank you
    God Bless

    Darlene

    Darlene
    Way to Go!!!! the first one is the worst (in my opinion) because of the fear of the unknown. Once we learn what to expect it seems to relieve alot of the anxiety and become more of a routine. I love what Nancy and Moopy (my dear friends) said about thinking about the little warriors in there fighting for us. Faith WILL get us through. Be kind to yourself, get lotsa rest and drink lots of H2O.
    sweet and peaceful dreams to you tonight.
    Jackie
  • Eil4186
    Eil4186 Member Posts: 949
    #9
    Hang in there. Chemo sure is
    Hang in there. Chemo sure is scary but believe me it is doable. You can do this!
  • ohilly
    ohilly Member Posts: 441
    #10
    it will be okay
    Darlene, I don't know if my experience is typical, but I'll tell you some news that will make you hopeful: I had almost NO side-effects from chemo. I did not feel nauseous at all or even tired, and I worked the whole time. In the beginning I was taking a day off from work right after the chemo, but then when I saw I felt okay, I stopped doing that and just went to work. I had four treatments of Taxotere/Cytoxan. The only thing I do remember is that I had a very bad taste in my mouth which went away when the chemo was done.

    Good luck to you, and I'll be thinking of you!

    Ohilly
  • mimivac
    mimivac Member Posts: 2,143
    #11
    celinelvr said:

    Made it through my first
    Made it through my first chemo Feb. 24. I remember how scared I was! But, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I am on taxotere and cytoxin. My next chemo is tomorrow. I am not looking forward to it, I hope I react the same as last time. Take a book or a CD to listen to. Keeps your mind off things....(Of course I listen to Celine Dion!) You will be ok, I'm sure, I was. Hang in there. We can get through this together. Love and Peace my sister.
    ~ Milly

    Good for you
    The first one is scary because of the fear of the unknown. I thought I would never get through it, but on Friday I completed my 5th (out of 6) treatment. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now, and so will you. No one said this journey was easy, but with each other's help we all get through it.
  • chenheart
    chenheart Member Posts: 5,159
    #12
    Believe it or not!
    This will cetainly be difficult to believe, but I promise its the TRUTH~ I was talking with some longtime Survivors ( between 1~ 6 years out of treatment) and we honestly can't even remember how bad/good/scary/time-consuming etc etc etc it all was. It has faded into a blur of something that happened to us on our way to Life After Breast Cancer. It certainly doesn't mean that it all magically disappeared from our memories entirely, but I was shocked to find that it isn't in the forefront of them either! YAY

    So...just know that you absolutely will get through all of it, and even these fears will receed.

    We walk with you, sister~ keep posting and know you aren't by yourself!

    Hugs,
    Claudia
  • Marcia527
    Marcia527 Member Posts: 2,729
    #13
    I second Claudia. I'm 5
    I second Claudia. I'm 5 years out and can't remember that much. Details are gone. Maybe I'm just getting old but ...I don't think so. So try to do as many good enjoyable things as you can during this time and that is what you will remember. I think they call it substituting memories. Or maybe that is after the fact. Anyway, just take one day at a time and soon it will be over.

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