Cancer Support and Caregivers Who Are Trail Blazers!

[Tommi]

Originally Posted by Novelafemme

A question for those who have had steroids in their chemo protocol. Has anyone dealt with the manic high/low side effect and if so, is there anything you can do to counter-balance it? no problem here with the high part but the low part is brutal!

Hopefully someone experiencing that can respond, in relation the manic side effects due to chemo. I am hypermanic with no chemo, but that's another brutal world.

No experience, but I found this when I Googled. "chemotherapy are given Dexamethasone to counteract certain side-effects of .... irritability, euphoria, mania; "