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Now here’s the highlighted list of all of the side effects from that consent form that I experienced: diarrhea, fatigue, hair loss.

In addition to that, there’s also information in the FOLFOX packet it had even more side effects that were specific to FOLFOX. On the consent form that I had to sign, let me show you it has a long list of just general chemotherapy side-effects that no matter what chemo you’re on you could experience. That’s what I had to look forward to every two weeks for 8 cycles. Then after those 2 days I would return to the cancer center and they would disconnect me from the pump.

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The way it was divided up, at the very beginning for the first 15 to 20 minutes would just be an infusion of anti-nausea meds, then for the next two to two and a half hours it was the chemotherapy drugs, then they would disconnect me from that and they would connect a portable pump to me through the port and I would take that pump home and over the next two days I would continue to receive an infusion of 5-FU.

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When I would go in for chemotherapy infusions, all three drugs would be given to me over the span of about 3 hours plus anti-nausea medications at the very beginning. The leucovorin helps increase the efficiency or the efficacy of the 5-FU. The 5-FU and oxaliplatin are chemotherapy drugs that prevent the division and growth of cancer cells and causes them to shrink and die. It is 5-fluorouracil, also known as 5-FU, oxaliplatin, and leucovorin. FOLFOX is actually 3 different drugs mixed together. The next packet of information I received was all about FOLFOX, the IV chemotherapy I was going to be receiving. I spoke about this one in my port video, I was supposed to put the cream over the port site before a needle was inserted into it for blood draws or for chemotherapy so that it was numb and I wouldn’t feel it at all. Then the third prescription was for lidocaine which is a numbing cream. The second prescription was for Compazine and that one is also an anti-nausea medication and that one I was supposed to use for breakthrough nausea so if in between the doses of Zofran it wasn’t enough I was supposed to take Compazine as an additional tool in my box to try and keep the nausea under control. And I was supposed to take that for 2 to 3 days following the infusion. The first one was Zofran, an anti-nausea medication, and that one I was supposed to take just a few hours after I got home from my chemotherapy infusions that evening to help keep the nausea at bay and under control. But in addition to that, they added three more medications to that list.

The only thing that I was taking at the time was vitamin D for a deficiency that I had before I was diagnosed with cancer. So the first of those sheets that I’ll go over is my current medication list. So at that appointment I got this folder of information which included my current medication list, a packet of information on FOLFOX, and a separate handout just on oxaliplatin and neuropathy. So a week and a half before I was scheduled to begin chemotherapy I had another chemo training class which was just an appointment with my Oncologist’s Physician Assistant. My name is Jelena and I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Rectal Cancer in May of 2016. In another video, I’ll dive even deeper into those side effects and also give you hints on how I coped with a lot of those side effects.

I’ll talk about what the drugs are that are in it, how they’re administered, and the side effects that I experienced. In this video, I’ll talk about the basics of the IV chemotherapy FOLFOX, which is commonly given for Stage 3 Rectal Cancer patients. Welcome back to Life as a Cancer Survivor.