Chemo or Cancer?

[marym]

Since I was diagnosed and began chemo, I have noticed a few almost things. I seem to have indigestion frequently (never had it before), I get the hiccups more frequently and I often have a runny nose. Are these from chemo? Cancer? Or am I just a little crazy? Also, my lips are often chapped in the corners.

Just wondering if others found these? Nothing is hard to handle - I'm just curious.

Mary

[cindi o'h]

the redness and "chapping" in the corners may be angular chelitis. Big doses of Vit. B's are helpful.

Cindi o'h

[joanie55]

It's really funny you asked this question. I've had a runny nose since I was (either) diagnosed or chemo. Can't remember exactly when it started. But I can't go anywhere without my tissues. ?????

Joan

[tatlyn]

without fail, my dad always got the hiccups within a day or two of his treatment.

[RandyW]

My allergies give me a runny nose and a beer gives me hiccups. Seroiusly though I do not remember Debs having those. Her nose always ran and she took allergy meds. Can't help with Chapped Lips or Hiccups though.

[kimblanchard]

My nose runs when I eat....

From the beginning of Chemo (3 yrs ago) my nose runs when it pleases. No Rhyme or reason, during the winter, during the summer. I suspect that my immune system will be forever compromised and any irritant/pollen will start me off. I suspect at meal times it is the pepper...which I love.

jim

[Tom K]

I also get the hiccups right after chemo and the running nose thing just started a couple of weeks ago for me.

[Don Wood]

Actually, the upset tummy and the hiccups are all part of nausea and due to the chemo. If you are having acid reflux, which Lucie gets sometimes with chemo, we have found that temporarily taking Nexium while on chemo will help. Don

[dchurchi]

My husbands nose runs all the time. Like Joanie he

can not be without tissues.

Alan also took Nexium and this seemed to help with

his stomach problems

[Geri]

Wow, am I the dummy or what!

I can't leave home, or anywhere else for that matter, without my handy pack of Kleenex and I've never put it down to chemo. I've bought enough Kleenex in the last 4 years to stock a store.

I've had this problem all along but put it down to something in VT (we moved here just before dx) so just assumed it was allergies.

I don't know if this makes me feel better about my runny nose but I guess at least now I know the cause.

Geri

[Ann]

Dennis always had a runny nose for several days after chemo. I would always worry that he was catching a cold but no other cold symptoms would ever develop, so we finally decided the "athletic nose syndrome" was due to chemo.