We went straight home as I wasn't feeling well. Fortunately we had filled my side effect prescriptions the previous week so didn't have to stop to get that done.
By 6 pm my chills were noticeably worse, I had the shakes and my teeth were chattering. I was having trouble catching my breath. I had a temperature of 100.8 F.
We called the on-call doctor as we had been instructed to do in case of any fever over 100 F. He said we didn't have to go to hospital immediately, but I could take Tylenol and wait until morning to see if the fever had diminished. Apparently shaking chills and fever are common side effects of Rituxan on the first evening and he was not too worried.
I was somewhat better by morning and we decided to wait to see if I needed to go to hospital. The on-call doctor called back and agreed. By evening my temperature was back to normal.
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