My 2nd chemo was delayed 4 days due to my white blood cell count not being high enough but finally got it yesterday. My hand and arm seemed loads colder than last time so they put one of the microwaveable heat pads and that helped so I'll be asking for that at the start next time.
Had a bit of an off night last night, awake from about 2am-4am, just completely wide awake and feeling sorry for myself! Took an anti sickness to cover myself and went downstairs for a while but nothing on tv was capturing my attention so I went back up and cosied into my husband.
I had deliberately avoided the steroid tablet (on my oncology nurses advice) as I had a restless night after my first chemo but I can't blame the steroid this time!
That's me a third of the way through :)
FormerMember
I have finished my chemo now but one thing i found was that some nights i would sleep soundly and then for no reason spend some nights awake during the kind of hours you are speaking of.
i always took my steroid though, just early enough. if i needed i slept during day and then all night as well. other times i didnt. all completely random.
I think we should complain to the tv companies about the kind of rubbish they palm us off with at night! borrow films or series box sets from friends - i am just starting West Wing.
congrats on being 2/3 way through, soon be at end and doing a victory dance :)
