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David Emerson's Experience about Dexamethasone

While I have no personal experience with dex specifically, I have undergone high dose steroid therapy in the form of doxorubicin, the D in VAD- doxorubicin therapy really threw me for a loop when I was on this therapy- not only did I feel UP when I began the therapy and DOWN when i came off the therapy, I gained almost 50 pounds during the 4 months while I was on VAD and developed cataracts in both eyes- a common side effect of high dose steroid use.

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Source: Dexamethasone - Wikipedia | Why Wikipedia?
Beating Myeloma Forum Posts about Dexamethasone
Do you need a team of drs to determine that dex causes fatigue, naps, restlessness?!
"The St. Jude team showed that dexamethasone significantly increased patients’ fatigue, length of daytime naps, frequency of awakening at night and the amount of restlessness during sleep. The findings also suggest that before initiation of con...
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Dana Farber diet recommendations for rebuilding blood cells
Good morning to all from a soon-to-be-hot-day in Florence! I just found this question and answer (Ask the Nutritionist) thingie on the Dana-Farber website (http://www.dana-farber.org/pat/support/nutrition/ ask-the-nutritionist.html#number7) and wanted to h...
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Beating Myeloma SDI Newsletters about Dexamethasone
Diagnosis SDI - Volume 1 Issue 8
An important but little discussed fact in myeloma treatment is that according to the F.D.A., conventional chemotherapy works in only 20%-30% of patients. Organizations offering different sorts of diagnostic processes to determine chemo-sensitivity are...
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Which approach is best for us? Treatment of Myeloma: Cure vs Control
From the Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Supported in part by grants CA62242, CA85818, CA93842, and CA100080 from the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. Individual reprints of this article are not available. Address corres...
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Which approach is best for us? Treatment of Myeloma: Cure vs Control
From the Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Supported in part by grants CA62242, CA85818, CA93842, and CA100080 from the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. Individual reprints of this article are not available. Address corres...
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