My husband is about to get his 2nd dose of docetaxel on thursday. Here's what's happened so far:
The night before the first dosage he took two strong steroids and didn't sleep well that night, took two more in the morning plus I think more in the IV..... the chemo was slowed to 25% for 15 min then 50% for another 15min and then full speed for the next 2 hrs or 2.5hrs (We did buy and bring those chemo gloves and booties and used those, but they got warm after an hour or so, so really just ice cubes in a ziploc and him sticking his hands in there, worked just as well.).... he felt fine driving us home from the hospital, got a bit queasy that afternoon but he had hardly eaten anything all day. Once he ate something he felt fine, that night he hardly slept 2 hours and the next morning he was like the energizer bunny, we went shopping, did did stuff around the house, he might even have gone to the gym in the morning too. That night though he finally crashed, still waking up to pee every few hours. Then it was 2 days of being achy, he said like a fever ache without the fever.... after 36hrs of that he was fine he said.
At exactly the 2 week mark he showered and got hair in his face and hands..... the next day it was a good hand full of hair after a shower, so he decided to shave it off to maybe 1/4" and I can see more bald spots, but he looks like he just has a summer hairdo! Though we expect more to fall out soon, he said a bit of leg hair and pubic hair too have fallen out.
So he doesn't look SICK yet..... he looks just fine and feels ok.