{"id":3106,"date":"2021-04-10T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2021-04-20T18:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:16:44","slug":"drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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my drug collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am back on them big time. So far no puking, thank goodness, I just feel a bit odd and my brain is addled. The drug regime is super complicated. As I said in my last post Arthur has set up an app that schedules everything but until I am used to it I check everything by hand. I spent about half an hour yesterday fussing about the dosage of one of my usual drugs, not a cancer one, that my addled brain claimed I have been getting wrong. Slightly panicked I was convinced it said “take once a day” half the dose I had been taking for years but after contacting the hospital and preparing to message my GP I reread the instructions and the mind mist momentarily cleared sufficient for me to see “take twice a day.” I honestly must have misread that 10 times. Duh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway as an aide memoire as well as an insight into what is involved in oral chemotherapy for the modern obsessive list maker here is my quota. I am on this lot for ever as far as i know or at least until they stop working – so i had better get used to it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Trimoxazole – an anti bacterial – don’t know why it prevents something 2 tablets M, W,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aciclovir -avoiding shingles – 1 tablet twice a day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allopurinol – stops your kidneys getting mucked up 1 tablet per day must be with meal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ixazomid – forbidding name for scary Cytotoxic – only one tablet per week and each one comes in its own little folder booklet thing – individually wrapped – must be on an empty stomach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lenalidomide – another Cytotoxic – one tablet per night – makes you sleepy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dexamethasone – the magic steroids – 20 tablets on one day per week – makes you wakey-wakey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bisoprolol – beta blockers – slow my heart rate – 1 tablet per day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omeprazole – 1 tablet per day – protect my stomach from all the other nasties being poured in it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apixaban – blood thinner – critical for some reason with this type of chemo but i was already taking them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atorvastatin – a regular statin (BORING)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am back on them big time. So far no puking, thank goodness, I just feel a bit odd and my brain is addled. The drug regime is super complicated. As I said in my last post Arthur has set up an app that schedules everything but until I am used to it I check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}