"OCF Canuck, across the pond" Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 153 | Wow, I'm having this trouble in spades. For me it's been more than four months since TX of radiation plus Cisplatin, and I feel as if I've had insomnia since the end of treatments. Interestingly, I slept fine during most of my treatments (I've found many references to people who get insomnia at diagnosis, but I maintained a very positive outlook at first.......this changed dramatically near the end of my treatments).
My third and final chemo session, and/or the pain/nausea cocktail of drugs, slammed me down psychologically hard at the end, and I feel as if I've hardly slept since.
Now I'm experiencing chronic insomnia, chronic loose stool (partial/rapid digestion?), numb feet (??), and a general lack of optimism.
Anyone experience anything similar at this point? How did it turn out?
47 yr old male non-smoker, social drinker, fit. Jan'10, Stg3 rt tonsil+rt neck SCC, HPV+, rad+chmo Vancouver Cda. 2yr clear Apr'12 London UK. Apr'13 mets recur to lymph btw left lung & aorta, 3x Cisplatin+5FUchemo+20 rad, was all clear but 6-mo PET-CT shows mets to pleura around left lung, participating in St 1 trial of GDC-0980. GDC lost effect and ended July'14, bad atrial fibrillation requiring hospitalisation, start more standard chemo 10 Sep 2014. Sadly has passed away, notified Jan 2015.
|