First day of treatment

Hello Lesley,

Sorry to hear you are feeling so bad. I understand they give one IV dose of a drug called Mitomycin right at the beginning and it can makes you feel really quite nauseous. The better news is that as this settles down, the rest of the chemo you take - the tablets - do not make you feel quite so awful, especially if you take the anti sickness meds and eat little and often.

I hope this gives you a bit of reassurance, but always mention these things to your medical team as they have lots of different things to help. 

I'm sure others will be here soon with advice and helpful suggestions, but in the meantime hang in there and hopefully the worst of the sickness will be starting to pass and you'll feel better.

Let us know how you go,

Hi Lesley

Like Mrs Vanilla said its more than lightly its the mitomycin they gave you by iv that's made you feel sick and it will improve, good news is you won't have anymore of it. Definitely speak to someone at your hospital tomorrow about the anti sickness meds and the fact that you missed your chemo tablet. I found ginger kombucha helped when I felt sick. Sending hugs. Xx

Hello Lesley

A warm welcome to the forum although I am sorry you had the need to find us.  But everyone on here has had or is going through the treatment you have just started and we have lots of tips and coping strategies we can share.

Please let your treating team know about the nausea, although as Mrs Vanilla says it is quite possible it was the IV chemo that caused this and hopefully you won't suffer any more.  But if they do there is a lot more ant-nausea medication they can try so do let them know.

I am keeping everything crossed that today goes without a hitch.  And we are always here to help you along the way, should you need it.

Irene xx

Hi Lesley 

Sorry to read you feel unwell  . I felt very nauseous during my treatment but the team tried various medications that really helped to ease it . 

I used to take my anti sickness first thing in the morning about a half an hour to an hour before having  food and  the Chemo tablets . 

Hoping you feel better soon x

Hello,

Thanks for all of your support. I have been to the acute oncology team this morning about the sickness. Was dehydrated so put on a couple of saline drips and given anti sickness injection. Also got new anti sickness tablets to try. It been a very long day but everyone has been amazing at the hospital. I had a through going over! Hopefully the new tablets will help. It’s only week one!

Hi Lesley (Rogers4075 ),

Another warm welcome to the MacMillan Online Community from me although I’m so sorry that you’ve had such a rough start to your treatment! 

I’ll repeat what’s already been mentioned that it will be the mitomycin infusion that has made you feel so poorly. It’s good that you’ve been given some rehydration today & the anti-sickness injection will hopefully help, there’s many anti- sickness meds out there & it’s often just a case of finding the one that works well for you so if the nausea continues be sure to tell your treating team that they’re not helping. 

I hope you find things settle down for you now. 

Nicola