Drugs, drugs and more Drugs

Seems like for every side effect there is another drug thrown at me. In the last few weeks I've increased my medicine cabinet to include:

Dexamethason - steroid I have to take night before and day of chemo treatment

Lidocaine and prilocaine cream - put on port 30-60 min prior to treatment to reduce pain when needle is put in

Promethazine (aka Phenergan), Zofran - Nausea

Lorazepam - nausea, anxiety

l-glutamine - amino acid supplement you dissolve in water.. supposed to help with the joint/muscle pains

senekot - constipation

ibuprofen 800 mg - been swiping these from Jesse 2-3 x a day rather than taking 4 regular ones each time

and they just called in:

Mobic - another NSAID like ibuprofen, but supposedly more effective for the taxol pains

Hydrocodone - pain meds for when the pains get too bad and the mobic/l-glutamine isn't working

I think they just want you to dope yourself up and sleep your way through this whole thing or something... LOL Does sound slightly appealing, but I hate being so tired and out of it. Hoping the Mobic or the l-glutamine will reduce the pain more without having to result to the heavy stuff.

Today I took a combination of L-glutamine, senekot, ibuprofen 800 and lorazepam and sat on the couch most of the day with a heating pad on my stomach. Been sitting here since around 7am in pain, and I think I finally found a good combination that makes me functional again.