chemo 3 and allergic reaction

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Hi everyone! I had my third round of chemo Monday and had a little problem. Everything went ok until the last drug finished running. I had been a little itchy toward the end and after it was finished, I became red all over. Several nurses came into the room and started asking all kinds of questions. At first apparently, just around my lips and nose was red. Then it started affecting my whole face and head (I'm bald now). Then it spread to my arms and legs. They kept asking me if I had trouble breathing. I don't know if I did or not, but apparently they thought that I did. A doctor came in and directed them to give me benedryl and something else to counteract the reaction. They called for an ambulance to take me to the hospital for observation overnight. When the ambulance took me away, my brother took my computer and everyone forgot about my shoes which were on the floor under the bed. I didn't realize it until after I was in the hospital room. About two hours after the reaction started, I was totally back to normal, but they already had me admitted for observation so I got to sleep there. I had to have my brother go back and bring my laptop back since I had some stuff I needed to get done that night. I had trouble sleeping so I finished reading a book and then I was on the computer until the medical staff came to check on me. I found out when the gyn/onc came through that it is not unusual for people to have an allergic reaction to carboplatin during the second or third round of treatment of a recurrence. Now they have to decide if they are going to change to another platinum-based drug, try to desenitize me to the carboplatin or take me off that one all together. Hopefully they will have an answer to that one by the next treatment. The joint pain started up again this afternoon so now I get to be miserable for another week. Oh well...at least I haven't felt overly nauseous yet. Have a great day!!!