{"id":4849,"date":"2005-11-09T21:59:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:21:17","slug":"first_rice_chem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4849","title":{"rendered":"First RICE chemo &#8211; 48 hour follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">When I started on RICE, it was suggested that it was a bit tougher than the prior RCHOP regimen. But if I tolerated RCHOP well, I wouldn\u2019t have too much trouble with RICE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Well so far RICE does seem to be tougher. This morning, less than 48 hours after finishing RICE, I did feel fatigue, similar to what I\u2019d felt with RCHOP. (for a little information on chemo-related fatigue, see this post <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/exercise_cancer.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Exercise, Cancer and Chemo<\/a>.) With RCHOP it was about five to ten days after the chemotherapy sessions when I started to feel mild fatigue (this is the period when your cell levels are at their lowest), and then I was fine for the next session. The chemo sessions were two weeks apart. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">So it\u2019s possible that I\u2019ll move beyond the mild fatigue stage with RICE and get to uhhh, what? Moderate fatigue perhaps. I only have one more RICE session, and not for another two and a half weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Despite the mild fatigue I did go to the gym. Biked for 20 minutes and then did the weights (with a slight reduction and spent a little more time between sets). I figure, get the sessions in now, so if I can\u2019t do the gym later, I\u2019ll have gotten something in!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">And just to be safe, I also got a prescription for Zofran filled (an anti-nausea medicine). Just in case. I had no nausea with RCHOP but want to have something in the house since I have felt a little queasy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I am going to put up a post looking back on the first ten weeks of chemotherapy<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>in the next couple of days.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started on RICE, it was suggested that it was a bit tougher than the prior RCHOP regimen. But if I tolerated RCHOP well, I wouldn\u2019t have too much trouble with RICE. Well so far RICE does seem to be tougher. This morning, less than 48 hours after finishing RICE, I did feel fatigue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6537,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/6537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}