Managing Symptoms

 

With each later cycles, the symptoms after the session has changed. I am not sure if it is the body that has got used to it or me, but I have begin to understand when a change in the body occurs what it might lead to and what to do about it. It seems like a big deal, but mostly it is just not getting overwhelmed by it.

One of the new symptoms that started with session 3 was the inability to process multiple thoughts or conversations. For example if my husband said, "Could you boil some water to make some tea and we can have some biscuits as snacks" That simple statement with three actions in it was too much to handle. I couldn't process it and would get confused. I had to ask him to break it down into  to 3 separate statements and repeat slowly one after the other. 

Another thing was dizziness. If I bend to pick up something, I felt like the world was spinning around and I had to quickly sit down so as not to fall. 

Another was reflux. I had to go to the doctor was that one. Thought I was having a heart attack with all the pain I was getting in my chest and spine. Doctors prescribed a medication to take daily till the end of treatment.

All these things were present in some intensity all the time during the next few sessions. However because each came with the cycle and one at a time, there were ways to manage it so that it didn't give too much trouble in day to day activities. Of course it would have been better without, but understanding the nature of the symptom and having a work around was the way to go. 

Some symptoms that were present immediately after the dose begin to come later in  the cycle or middle of the cycle. It was weird how they were changing. And the intensity was also not the same. With the current cycle for the past couple of days I had lost appetite and taste. This was previously only right after the dose and by week 2 and 3 it would settle and I would get taste back. But this time although it was there as usual right after the dose, it has come back in the 3rd week.  

Maybe it is my body now getting ready for the end of the cycle, maybe it is the cumulative effect of the medication, which ever way, although everyone including the doctors kept saying that the symptoms will settle, and the body will get used to the medication, it is not a straight forward process as everyone makes it out to be. 

I can only hope that once all the cycles are over the symptoms will not come and there will be no residue!