Jittery after third round of chemo

[Isabelle49 168]

Anyone else get the jitters. Could be he three days of dexamethasone too and add in the Neulasta, so who knows. Ativan seems to help.

[Rower Michelle 961]

Ah, the jitters!  It’s like you drank a gallon of coffee.  It’s the steroids.  Only good news is that it doesn’t last long & then you will sleep like a baby for two days before “normal” resumes. Good time to clean out the closets.  Hang in there! 

[Isabelle49 168]

Thanks Michelle. The jitters were gone by Monday evening, thank goodness. That is a creepy feeling!!!

[Rower Michelle 961]

I vote for the jitters over nausea any day, plus my closet is in really great shape! 😉

[Tom Galli 2,831]

After chemo, in spades... Mine only lasted a couple of days and was likely "rhoid rage".

Stay the course.

Tom

[wwroam 60]

Back in '07 , I was doing 12 cycles of Folfox 4 for Colon Cancer. Still CC free.

They were really loading me up with Dex. That is one really rough chemo.

Fast forward to 2017 and I resisted Dex for my NSCLC chemo but settled on 8mg, 4mg &  4 mg on consecutive days . By that time I had been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes ( for which I blame the Dex).

Now that I have resumed chemo for cancerous lung nodules I'm on 4mg,2mg,0mg . I am getting metoclopramide for anti nausea.

I have concluded that oncologists are way too free with handing out Dex. It's very trick stuff.