In short, today I felt terrible. I haven't felt this bad since the chemotherapy infusions stopped. At first it was just fatigue; it was all I could do to put one foot in front of the other. But as the day wore on I started feeling nauseous. Happily, there's a bright line between nausea and vomiting, and I never crossed that line, but spending all day wondering how close you're getting to the line is not pleasant. It was all I could do to eat, since just the thought of food made it worse.
I've come up with four theories (so far) for what's going on, presented here in the decreasing order of preference:
Option 1: Chemotherapy-related PTSD
It would be great if this was just a momentary flashback, even if I had to deal with future flashbacks. I like mental things. I'll take something that can be treated with alcohol over something that has to just work it's way out of your system any day.
Option 2: Some generic flu or some such
This has the advantage of being short-term and unlikely to repeat, but the disadvantage of being annoying as hell. I've got enough going on without having to deal with some random virus or some such that I've inhaled.
Option 3: Drug interactions are starting up
No idea how one would test this short of discontinuing all the pills, but it's certainly possible that the generic cruddiness I'm feeling is due to some interaction between the numerous drugs I'm now taking.
Option 4: The pills have piled up to the point that I'm now getting chemo side effects
This, frankly, would suck. The main reason I'm taking the pills is to get the (if potentially limited) benefits of chemotherapy without the intolerable side effects. If I'm now going to start getting side effects from the pills, then that pretty much undermines the primary half of the justification for taking the bleedin' things.
No idea yet what the likeliest answer is. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see how things trend.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.