Hi all,
I had my first EC chemo yesterday with scalp cooling, and I found the cooling part really tough — especially the last 90 minutes after the infusion finished. I had a constant headache throughout the session, which didn’t make things easier.
When I got home, I rinsed my hair (I’d used Daniel Field products before chemo) and let it air dry. Since I got back around 7 p.m., my hair was still damp when I went to bed. That’s when things really hit me.
I had terrible nausea and was vomiting almost every hour through the night. I couldn’t keep anything down, not even water. Finally, around 3:30 a.m., I managed to eat a banana and the vomiting stopped, which let me get some rest.
During chemo and even after, I also noticed sensitivity to light and found it really hard to tolerate people talking around me — everything just felt so irritating.
I’m feeling a bit better now and have already updated the hospital about what happened. But I wanted to ask: has anyone else experienced this after their first EC session? Was it just the first one that hit so hard, or is this likely to happen each time? Any advice or shared experiences would mean a lot.
