I’m day 3 (just) of cycle 2 of CAPOX and feeling pretty awful. I had a sleep yesterday morning then was exhausted by 8pm. Kept going until 9pm, fell asleep until 2am. Have been awake since - wired but exhausted, feeling very sick and like there’s lots of fluid sloshing round in my stomach so don’t want to lie back down. Got up at 2.30 and have been sat in the lounge reading since then. Very fed up with this, disappointed as I won’t be able to keep plans I was looking forward to tomorrow. Anyone else awake and up for a moan?
I am sorry to hear you had such a bad night. I hope you managed to get back to sleep this morning. I just wanted to pop a link on here to a page for people who do find themselves awake and need someone to chat too. Hopefully you want need it, but if it happens again take a look. There are a lot of pages on there, but if you scroll to the bottom of the page and press the 2 arrows >> it will take you to the newest comment.
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