 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | Frankie, I had a terrible time with Amifostine too. I had a couple of non-nausea days with Zoloft combined with a steroid they gave me intravenously before the Amifostine (can't rememebr what that steriod was called but it made me feel better than I had any right to).
Most days I vomited though.
I quit altogether for four days because I was so sick from the second chemo I couldn't imagine getting the Amifostine too but then my rad oncologist encouraged me to go to an every other day treatment which I stuck out until the end.
Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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