I said yesterday that I felt hugely better and that I hoped that this was a sign that the side-effects were improving. And, indeed, for the whole morning, I did feel very much better, to the extent that I even considered going for a walk. Luckily, I decided not to follow my desire for exercise; just after lunch, I began to feel really unwell, and by 15:30, I'd had to go to bed with a hot water bottle, loperamide and paracetemol.
The abdominal cramps have been really painful since then, though I've discovered that peppermint tea helps a lot, so I'm very glad to have found a packet of peppermint teabags at the back of a cupboard.
The radiotherapists did say that the side-effects would get worse this week. What they didn't mention is that they might clear up sufficiently to lure me into thinking they were on their way out before coming back in strengthened form!
How annoying.
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