Hormones, Headaches & Nausea Yesterday, well it started out ok, took the tablets on time, waited for a break in the weather and did the trip to Tesco's. I seem to be getting slower and slower at walking back....as the week wears on I wear out!!!! The weather was pretty ghastly no hanging out of laundry....huge gusts of wind interspersed with showers....didn't want to be running in and out to get the washing or chasing it up the street! Lara came home around lunchtime from her sleepover at my sisters and Sean went off swimming making the most of his last day before the new school year.
I must be bloody unlucky, my monthly cycle has decided to co-incide with my chemo cycle......and I usually suffer pretty bad with it so add a little moodiness, cramps, headaches & hormones to the tiredness and nausea of the chemo (oh and throw in a little constipation for good luck) and you can imagine my day. Oh and the fact I am "mrs 28 days" means it will clash for the entire 6 months of treatment - yaaaaaaaaaay me!
As the afternoon progressed the nausea intensified to the point I went and took some Domperidon, I had made it to day 3 before having to take anything for it, so I should be pretty pleased with myself. I cooked the dinner, teriyaki chicken and we had it in wraps with salad. I don't know how I stood there cooking with the waves of nausea constantly washing over me. By 7.30pm I was one moody cow....everytime the kids bickered, I snapped and then I got cross with the hubby, can't remember why now but he managed to piss me off too LOL
People who have followed my blogs know that when I get like this, I retreat to my bedroom with a book. Well even that pissed me off.......got to the end of the book and the hero was left falling into an abyss, I calmed down somewhat after reading some notes after that said there will be a follow on book, just as there was a pre-quel (which I will now have to hunt down). So that book finished and my mood not improving nor the nausea, I took another two Domperidon and started Deception Point by Dan Brown. I decided to try and get some sleep around 9.30pm but had to laugh at Ollie lying on my bed growling at "himself" in the mirrored door of our wardrobes lol
Sleep did not come easy, I woke around 1.15am with severe cramps, let the dogs out cos I had disturbed them and went back to bed. Couldn't sleep, couldn't get comfy so opened the window - bad move! Dexter is afraid of the wind and as it was howling through our wooden blinds he was trying to climb the walls, which woke Tony - who got up and slammed the window shut! I tossed and turned for what seemed like an eternity when suddenly Tony's alarm was going off and I had to get up as it was Lara's first day at secondary school.
Thought for yesterday:
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
FormerMember
Hi Debs,
You're certainly going through the mill hun. I totally sympathise with you, I had pretty much the same going on throughout my treatment. Make sure you take time out for yourself, hopefully it will be a little easier now the kids are back at school. I used to curl up in bed with a book or magazine and sleep lots. My puppy used to come to bed with me too...such great company and thy don't get grumpy either lol!
I do hope u feel better, you're doing so well in keeping everything together but do think of yourself too!!
<em>racks brains for something useful to say before she throws book at me...</em>
Um, my chemo cocktail hour preference last time was sodium docusate, Senna and movicol (yum!) with loads of water, bran flakes for breakfast and beans on toast for lunch. <em>Sophisticated?</em> moi?
My anti-devil*itchfromhell remedy was a mirena IUD (sorry if that's too much info, lol) - amazing! Did away with the whole bit...
Hope Lara had a good first day!
lovekx
ps I wish I could come round yours for tea sometimes:)
you poor love. I sympathise with the PMT symptoms, used to get them but not now and the sleepless nights.... I've been playing okey kokey with the quilt all this week and am now feeling shattered. Might try T's suggestion though pumpkin seeds and Green and Blacks chocolate - I could do some of that.
