Similar Week

The first week of this cycle was very similar to the first week of the first cycle. The muscle, bone, joint pains that seem to come from a sensitivity to a breeze have been less, but then again we've also been using ibuprofen from the start, and it does seem to help with such symptoms. There was less diarrhea and loose stools, but Karen didn't mind those side effects compared to the constipation she's been dealing with since her ostomy reversal. Overall, this first weeks' symptoms seems to be only slightly better than last time around. If I had to quantify it I'd say the side effects are maybe 15% to 20% less severe. And I'm not sure if it's not just because we are medicating better. Karen and I were also wondering if the severity of the side effects are in some way related to her white blood cell count - like how mosquito bites affect you less when your white blood cell count is lower.