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Update after first cycle
Three sticks after first blew vein, second stick with different nurse almost blew and nurse gave up, to defer to most experienced nurse who succeeded!
So very late start for premeds.
Then taxol began and felt jittery on the IV arm, then flushed, then very dizzy, and heart started breathing wildly. So stopped after only 0. 7
Nurses gave me time to recover after giving me Benadryl. So confused why they have me Zyrtec in premed instead of Benadryl.
Finally called my oncologist who insisted I have Ativan or she said I would have the same allergic reaction. I was very skeptical bc she seemed to imply it would be better for me to sleep through the infusion. I felt like my body was screaming "No, don't put this toxic drug in my body".
It took me quite a while to decide to go ahead which what she "ordered". And the second time I stayed awake for the rest of the infusion in case something went wrong again.
Anybody else have allergic reaction to taxol or whatever it is I'm allergic to?
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I'm sorry to hear about all your chemo problems. That sounds really miserable.
They always gave me Benadryl as a premed. And for the first and second cycles the nurse sat in my little room for the first 5 min of the paclitaxel infusion and watched for infusion reactions. But I never reacted to paclitaxel. (I did eventually develop a horrible allergy to carboplatin, but that's a different story.)
To avoid the problems with finding a vein (and damaging them), you should get a port. They really do make getting chemo much less unpleasant. (I had my first two cycles of chemo through a vein, with multiple sticks, changing veins in the middle, etc., and then got a port. Big improvement.)