As a newer member I'm quite impressed with the quality of the topics and posts here.
I'm interested in hearing about fatigue; I seem to be running into this and then finding out (after the fact) that it should have been expected.
For example: I finished a dose of 5 days of 5-FU after 2 days of Cisplatin a few weeks ago. Felt like crap for about 5 days and then thought things were getting back to "normal". Last week I began to become progressively weaker until it was all I could do to take a few steps without "whiting out" (everything goes white and you lose your balance). My homecare nurse told me that this was fairly normal. My oncologist NEVER mentioned it.
My question is: do I have any other surprises to look forward to?
Thanks in advance - this is a GREAT group!


SCC,Left Mandible, Stage IVa, Diagnosed 2/28/04, Cisplatin/5FU, Radiation 40 days. Lower left mandible removed and replaced with bone from hip Septemeber 29th, 2004.
Happy Camper ever since!