6 more chemo tablets today plus 4 steroid and 3 anti nausea as prescribed. I will also be taking the vitamin B6 tablet as well. Another good day with practically no tingling. But another night of poor sleep. A conversation with Jo about Vitamin B6, pyridoxine and she advised that I should probably take this for a year after the Chemotherapy has been completed. The effects of the Capox are likely to continue for at this that long. The US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health website page states Long-Term Retention of Oxaliplatin Derivatives Given that the 3rd half-life of oxaliplatin is in the order of hundreds of hours, accumulation of the drug in tissues may presumably be expected. In this regard, a study examined long-term retention of platinum 8–75 months after treatment with cisplatin and oxaliplatin 41 . The results showed that the plasma concentration of platinum in individuals previously exposed to oxaliplatin or cisplatin is lar...
Tinnitus and Colon Cancer