Dose Reductions?!?

Been an interesting 48 hours.

First off, my gut was killing me the last couple days. I've been trying everything to get it gone, but no joy. I called my oncologist's office yesterday and we went over some other over the counter stuff that should help get me "regular". I took Milk of Magnesia and SenoKot last night. The dam has burst, but still having abdominal pain (which could just be residual - it doesn't feel as bad).

My concern is my oncologist brought up possibly reducing my chemo dose again. I feel like crap, and I still have 5 cycles to go - I know this. But dammit I don't want to do anything that reduces my chances of getting rid of this thing. The fact that I'm only taking over the counter crap so far for the symptoms makes me wonder why we arent trying to be more agressive with the symptoms FIRST.

I love my oncologist, she's great. But she's going to need to do some serious convincing here. A lot of other Hodgkin's Survivors I spoke with are incredulous that a dose reduction would even be considered yet (and particularly for these kind of symptoms).