Hi ALL
Hope you're all managing to keep well, or as well as possible!
update; well Ian's been on Abiraterone for a month or so now, with what we think might be some unpleasant side effects, including skin irritation and bouts of diarrhoea. We have been on holiday to Tenerife and I'm not sure how much of these symptoms might not be ascribable to too much sun/spanish tummy/not enough hydration. There were rumours that there had been norovirus in the resort so we took extra special care re hygiene, and even took a pack of clinell wipes with us and dioralyte sachets! We arrived on the friday and Sunday, all day, Ian had rampant D+V, poor chap, I didn't have any issues at all and it had cleared itself by the monday evening which made me question whether it was something he'd picked up or a side effect of the tablets. We asked the oncologist today if it was a known side effect and he said yes but it tends to be ongoing symptoms not isolated episodes [IAN had another episode of diarrhoea yesterday , again, just the one]
poor bloke, trying to keep his spirits up, he was getting very down in the dumps with everything. So the consultant today said leave off the tablets for a month, see if we get any D+V WITHOUT the meds and then see h im again in a month and review.
I can't remember now what he said about the skin irritation but we'll see if that clears up within the month. Luckily he's growing a beard and moustache for the play his drama group are putting on in the summer so he's excused from shaving! [ouch!]
so that's us! we did actually manage to enjoy our holiday after that initial hiccup!