u/KiwitheBirdNOTAFruit

I anticipated feeling off or queasy maybe a tad nauseous but tolerable. NO, it hit hard and fast like a ton of bricks! And I was reading that the side effects don’t even peak until day 3-7. Is it normal to feel so off all of a sudden? Is it worth bringing up to my doctor? Will it pass? Please don’t tell me it gets worse!! I have a high pain threshold and can handle a lot, but stomach sick nausea turns me into the biggest baby! Is it ok to take gravol? No one said I couldn’t, but they also didn’t say I could either. Any other tips and tricks to combat this? I’m having flashbacks to pregnancy when the only time I had any relief was if I was sleeping 😅

Im primarily looking for Canadian based companies, but am open to all suggestions. Also looking for brow pencils/ powder etc suggestions and how about fake lashes? I start chemo on Wednesday and I am trying to come to grips with the fact that I will likely be loosing all my hair at some point during all of this. I never felt like I had an attachment to it, but now that I’m faced with the very real possibility of loosing it all I am kind of sad. This has been the hardest part to wrap my head around so far.

He was awesome while I was healing up from my surgeries, but I anticipate that chemo side effects might hit me harder. I just want to prepare him the best I can (which is tricky because I don’t even know what to expect). I’m not going to lie, I’m more scared and nervous for this part of the journey than I was for the surgery, I assumed radiation and medication would be in my future - but the chemo part came as a bit of a surprise.

I feel like I’ve been waiting so long for this day, and now that it’s almost here I’m totally drawing a blank! I’ve have my surgeries -mastectomy and auxiliary lymph node dissection, so I’m assuming this is where we finally get to discuss further treatment and what that’s going to look like.