This was on the news again last night and people are talking about why he did it but we don’t know.  I talked to my mother about this after she wrote on here and told her what my friends said, and she said it’s OK to analyse to understand so long as it doesn’t invade our compassion, or something like that, but we really don’t know.  A couple of my friends wanted to commit suicide and I know why they wanted to but no-one can know why this man killed people because he hasn’t told them and he mightn’t even know himself.

Mum went back to hospital at 4am this morning because the Emend and the Kytril and the injection didn’t stop the vomits and she is dried out and needs a drip. But Ma will be home when the vomits stop and she is all irrigated again so she is OK

Emend works in tandem with Zofran. It is usually given by IV on day 1 with your chemo and then you have a prescription for pills for day 2 and day 3. It is supposed to actually work to help control nausea later in the cycle (although you take it days 1-3). I don’t know the class of drug but that should be available on drugs.com.

You are really experiencing it all! I think that is one thing i learned the hard way, I must be ready for constant change with chemo. Low counts, delayed treatments and many neupogen shots. I had them after every treatment at round 3 i think. I will say, my first two rounds may have been the hardest…so hopefully, you will adjust as well.

One of my lifesavers during treatment…was our ozarka machine. It dispensed hot and cold water so I could drink warm water quickly without pain. If you crave juice or something..buy the individual servings and keep at room temp..that helps too.

Oh, and the bone pain wasn’t as bad as expected w/ neupogen. I did however, get some bad headaches from them. Don’t let that suprise you. (hydrocodone doesn’t work on headaches either..fyi).

Emend is fantastic….you should feel better with that…and w/ out the thrush you will feel even better. I got it alot and had to takes weeks of the diflucan to keep it at bay.

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Your body truly hates chemo. After my first round of FOLFOX my blood counts were in the toilet – so I had to postpone round #2 an extra week. After that my oncologist always gave me the Neulasta (sp?) shot – it was just one shot and they gave it to me on day #3 – the day they disconnected my pump. If they remembered to bring the shot up to room temp or at least close, it didn’t hurt as much going in. And I was one of the rare exceptions that did NOT have any bone pain. My shoulders and neck would get a little stiff/sore, but not bad. My big thing was nausea – I experienced other side effects, usually the first day – like the eye twitching, muscles locking up – but nothing like what you’re going through. And the Emend made the nausea bearable. Not good – but I could suck it up – be tough – and get through it. When I thought I just couldn’t go on, a break would come up for some reason or another – like the 3 week break before and after radiation.