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Hi so I have my first round of chemo tomorrow morn at 8am. 1st chemo combination is Doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide apparently it will take 2 hours and I have 4 sessions of these over 12 weeks? Can y...
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I had A/C then Taxol/Herceptin. I had no issue with the actual A/C treatments - I usually read or did crosswords and emails. Occasionally you are sitting next to someone who is happy to chat a bit. I never started a conversation as I think people want to deal with it in their own way. If they have family or friends with them, they certainly don't want to be interrupted. But I was happy to respond if someone else on their own wanted to converse.
With Taxol I got phenergan, which just made me dopey/sleepy to every one else's amusement. I asked my oncologist to drop the anti nausea medication (as I never had nausea and was getting constipated) so he did and I was fine.
I continued to feel fine when I went home - after A/C I didn't have much appetite for 2 or 3 days (no nausea, just not very hungry) and then I was back to normal, With Taxol I lost a lot of my taste buds - excellent if you want to lose weight!
Good luck!