Isabelle49 174 Report post Posted August 25 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rower Michelle 1,147 Report post Posted August 26 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! 1 Tom Galli reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Isabelle49 174 Report post Posted August 29 Thanks Michelle. The jitters were gone by Monday evening, thank goodness. That is a creepy feeling!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rower Michelle 1,147 Report post Posted August 29 I vote for the jitters over nausea any day, plus my closet is in really great shape! 😉 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tom Galli 2,919 Report post Posted August 29 After chemo, in spades... Mine only lasted a couple of days and was likely "rhoid rage". Stay the course. Tom Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wwroam 62 Report post Posted October 11 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites