Abemaciclib

ElsieJ

Diagnosed with T3N1 ductal cancer this year. Now post surgery and radiotherapy and about to start abemaciclib. Just wondering how anyone on this drug manages the side effects.

Katie46

Hi @Elsiej how are you getting on with the abemaciclib? I'm on week 4 and getting low grade diarrhoea, which the gastro medication is managing, other than that I'm feeling ok. My oncologist said they will monitor the diarrhoea and if necessary give me a break, and review the dose, but they don't want to do that at this early stage if I can manage it, and hopefully it will settled down.

I was diagnosed with stage 2 grade 3 IDC 1 lymph node involved. My treatment was lumpectomy, chemo, radiation and now hormone blockers and abemaciclib.

ElsieJ

Hi @Katie46 - I'm doing very well thank you - two weeks into treatment. I did modify my diet to try and hopefully avoid the worst of things which seems to have helped I think. Basically following what to avoid if you have diarrhoea whilst maintaining a balanced diet at the same time. So now on decaf coffee, almond milk and lactose free yoghurt and cheese amongst other things - not too hard to get use to. Living alone I don't need to cater for anyone else.

Katie46

Thanks @Elsiej, I'm trying to figure out what it doesn't like, very spicy food is a no, but coffee and normal milk is fine for me, although I do alternate with almond milk. I've skipped my calcium tablet the last couple of days and I've had a good few days, so now I'm suspicious it might be that. I will start the calcium tablets again and see what happens. Luckily, one of the gastro tablets seems to fix things for me, so at least it easily managed.