is it odd for tykerb se's to increase?

[grandma2]

i think i'm starting week 6 or 7 now. at first it didn't really seem to do much to me. now i'm finding that i have more and more se's. not all of them, but gas, bloating and diarhhea. it's much better if i take fewer than 5 pills but since i'm off xeloda i hesitate to keep doing that. it's hard to leave the house cause i never know when it's going to hit and how many times. i am taking imodium. tomorrow onc wants me to try taking 1 xeloda in am and 1 in pm. i don't understand why we just don't wait for the 5-fu toxicitity test to come back but i can't keep arguing with her and i worry that while we're fooling around with this stuff, i'm just getting more progression. i'm praying that tykerb is killing the dam cells even without xeloda. any comments re the se's would be appreciated. i kinda thought as time went on the se's would diminish not increase. thanks, gm