[kcherub]

Hey! The anti-nausea meds should not make you drowsy, unless you are having an Ativan IV with your treatments (they are anti-nausea, anti-anxiety). That won't last more than the afternoon...

I WOULD NOT suggest taking your luck the first time around and skipping the anti-nausea meds. I know everyone else pretty much said the same thing, but I am panicking a bit for you just thinking of you NOT taking them before! LOL

After my first treatment, on a Friday, I went back to work on Monday. I own my own business (children's boutique) and had a "babysitter". My store manager went with me. I felt HORRID. Not sick, just out of sorts. With me, it was the steroids, which I think pretty much everyone gets with a Taxane. The rest of my treatments, I took the following week off, but I also had the luxury of knowing it wouldn't endanger my job. Here is what I think--if you can, take the week after the first one and stay home just to gauge how you feel day by day.

I didn't really notice any "getting worse" with each treatment--other than the neuropathy, hair loss, and dread of the next one. The emotional dread of it was really actually worse than the physical actualities. Nonwithstanding the freaky steroids!

Take care!