infusion Side Effects

[3putt]

good morning fellow warriors. My PSA continues to move up so my oncologist ordered 20 sessions of radiation. The radiation was a walk in the park compared to the 1030-1048 Zometa infused Wednesday morning. Holy cow ! Peed (a few dribbles) every half hour. Chills then sweats. Bone ache throughout and head felt like I’d gone out on an all night binger, which I don’t. To cap it off,it brought on insomnia.

My question, has anyone else experienced this type of reaction? If so, any thoughts o help get through the next one. Based on this go round I’m very concerned about going for another. Thoughts.

[mrscruffy]

Same thing happened to me, I just slept it off the next day. I no longer plan activities for the day following infusion. Luckily didn't experience insomnia

[3putt in reply to mrscruffy]

good advice. Much appreciated. That was pretty rough yesterday. Better now knowing this too shall pass!

[mrscruffy in reply to 3putt]

I had infusion on the morning of New Year's Eve then went to a rave and drank until after 2AM. I was sick as a dog for 3 days. But that was on me. I am a slow learner

[NDJIM]

The zometa is pretty tough on me sometimes, but fortunately my Dr told me about Claritin. It doesn’t sound like anyone quite knows the mechanism for how it works, but from first hand experience, it helps quite a bit. He recommends that I take it a few hours before and for a couple of days afterwards. It seems to help a lot and my wife also has me make sure to get up and moving even if I feel lousy and want to just lay around. (She’s a medical professional) This and a couple of Tylenol and I do much better. Hope this works for you, but like everything else with this crap….everyone’s different. Good Luck. My Best, Jim

[3putt in reply to NDJIM]

Much appreciated!

[Woodstock82]

I had one infusion of Reclast (same stuff, different brand) four years ago. Later that same day I had fever, chills, then sweats. The fever never broke 100F, otherwise I would have called it in. The next day I was fine. No recurrence.

Because of that reaction, six months later they gave me Prolia (denosumab) instead. No reaction at all to that.

[3putt in reply to Woodstock82]

Much appreciated!

[j-o-h-n]

Definably not a hole in one........

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n