Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
That line should have said, "weight GAIN was one of the reported side-effects of this chemo cocktail". I guess my "life is not fair" didn't make much sense with the "loss" in there. If methotrexate has weight loss as a symptom then it must be one of the other drugs in the cocktail that causes the weight gain. The real point I was trying to make was that for a lot of people the side effects were so mild they didn't even lose weight.
As for hair, what I was told about the cocktail was that hair would thin but probably not be lost completely. Again, I don't know if that was from the methotrexate or from one of the other drugs. (Although you have a pretty enough face that you could probably get away with being bald. Add some big earrings and necklace and lots of eye makeup - very striking! )
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