Chemo treatment number 3

Chemotherapy treament number 3 was June 9. The session went easier as the port-a-cath has healed better and is not so tender. I do use EMLA cream applied to the port site one hour before the treatment, I find it helps when the needle is inserted through the skin. This time I also had about 3.5 hours when I felt fine. I went out and did some errands and went home had dinner and watched TV till bed time. Wednesday I was tired and didn't feel like getting out of bed. By Wednesday evening the indigestion had returned and was very uncomfortable through Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

I had a new drug to try metoclopramide for the nausea and indigestion. Didn't make any difference. On Monday I was able to change the prescpripton for Zantac (ranitidine) which seems to be helping - or the sypmtoms may just be dissipating.

Anyway its been a rough 6 days. I've not eaten much other than rice, jello, watered down juice and sherbert. I had dinner tonight - a little chicken, rice and cooked pineapple which is supposed to help with digistion. I feel ok so far.

Walking helps with the indigestion, if you're not too tired. Finding what the triggers are would be helpful too but these seem to be different for everyone. There are the usual suspects coffee, tea, chocolate (caffiene), also high fibre foods, dairy products, and beans - which leaves little to eat. Then this can lead to constipation and hemmorrhoids. Adding fibre to the diet to help with this creates indigestion and around and around we go.