What a first month of treatment. Started on Oxaliplatin and capecitabine at the beginning of June. Infusion was fine. The side effects were worse than I thought. The neuropathy was something else, the tiredness, diarrhoea, queasy, pain. Used most of the anti sickness and anti diarrhoea tablets. Had a 4 day spell in hospital due to extreme stomach pain, couldn't walk very well. Only took the capecitabine for a week. Told to stop because of the diarrhoea and the antibiotics whilst in hospital. Found to have diverticulitis, never had it before, do not want that pain again. Round 2 starts next Tuesday, no idea how not taking full dose of capecitabine effects treatment overall. Trying to get info from AOS is like getting blood from a stone. Different people tell you different things. I have a phone call with consultant on Monday, hopefully that will be helpful. Not looking forward to round 2, frantically trying to get my head back in the fight game. Tina Tumour has to go.
Thanks for your reply. I'll ask about Emend, I was given Metoclopramide for nausea and loperamide. I think both of these were insufficient as I was unknown to be fighting the infection with the diverticulitis.
s fighting the diverticulitis without knowing. I made many calls to AOS in the evening/night. A much better service than the daytime team. They called ahead to the hospital to tell them I was cg. Im just worried about this next round. I think I was ok with the tablets, but who knows fingers crossed this time will be better sailing 
