Nausea and dental blues

Will it never end? Had a bad night. I have been plagued by nausea ever since I started taking Tamoxifen. Last night (or rather early this morning) I woke up at 3am with the most vile bile stuff in my mouth and couldn't go back to sleep for an hour. The nausea has come and gone all day. The weird thing is that while I am nauseated, I am still hungry sometimes. And I am getting that metallic taste in my mouth again that I had during chemotherapy. Oy!

So, a few minutes ago I googled the query "Tamoxifen and nausea" and wouldn't you know, I found a lot of stuff on it and good information from other women. Apparently it's quite usual to have this and it will go away. Somebody suggested it's better to take it at night, the symptoms are not so bad during the day. I was actually toying with the idea all day today. Aren't I smart?

Ok, so that's solved. I also read that a lot of women get depressed with Tamoxifen. Well, hopefully that won't happen. Before the radiation treatments I read that a lot of women get depressed during radiation therapy. It didn't happen to me, so I am not going to worry about that with Tamoxifen. My wonderful Angela is going on holiday for 6 weeks next month, so I can't get depressed anyway. She won't be here to pick up the pieces and it would be just too boring to have to start telling all my woes to a new person.

The worst news of the day is that I have to have two molar teeth removed! Luckily for me the antibiotic is working, so the tooth doesn't hurt. I went to see the dentist anyway and he is very thorough and he wants to see my blood count before he does anything to me with my recent history. That gives me a little respite.

So, tomorrow I am off to see my GP with all my various complaints and.......... life goes on. I think it's beginning to dawn on me that I will never be the same as I was before the big C hit. Not sure how I feel about that, actually.