FEC 90 X6 starts very soon

Hi Liz,

I was double positive but no HER2 and i was also on FEC x 6...

Everyone is different...

Where are you being treated... I found FEC was rare also and i only found one or 2 others to have the 6 courses of FEC like us...

Im not going to lie to you they get harder well they did for me... I firstly suffered with diahrea and then the next session constipation i had the lot... I suffered with insomnia really badly from the anti nausea meds and this part drove me insane...

Send me a message if you have any further questions im happy to tell you everything i experience...

BUT there is hope my 6th session was a dream compared to the rest...

Hang in there you can do it its so hard but you will get there

xx

Oh Liz I am so sorry! What a sausage I am! any way you know I posted the comment to you - I am just over a week out of my last chemo and each day gets better and better.  Next step radiotherapy - will cross that bridge when I come to it.  In the meantime I hope you do ok and remember just chat any time, we are here  - Oh, ginger is good for nausea, and Ginger beer (I have a soda-stream and buy the ginger beer cordial) and if you get chemo-mouth (no this doesn't apply to the bit where you want to swear heaps!) try some Tic Tacs (the stonger the better) x x x Josie

Hi Josie and Dette,

Nice to hear from both of you! Just to save a bit of confusion, I'm Liz the person who posted the message about FEC 90 chemo. Then Cheryl made a comment, so that may have been the reason for the name confusion. It's nothing though. It's very easy to confuse lots of lovely ladies :)

After my first chemo yesterday, I did get a gradual tension headache, sore eyes and sinusy feeling. I though it was a headache and took a panadol, which didn't help. After taking anti nauseus medications it seems to help a lot before bedtime. So I wonder whether it was nausea, even though it didn't really present itself that way to me. Today I feel ok, just slight nausea after breakfast, even though I did take meds beforehand. It seems fine after a bit of a lie down.

Josie, I also heard that which each cycle people can get a bulit up reaction. Hopefully it won't be so bad. We all hope for a smooth ride. I also like to count down. I 've been telling myself 1 down 5 to go. Still seems a few to get through.

Dette, all the best on Monday. I was given a nausea/sleep tablet (Ativan) to start the night before chemo and continue for next 5 nights. I really think it helped me relax and fall asleep. They could possibly give you something similar.

Now I just wait it out for the rest of the treatment and cross my fingers for the best. x

Hi Cheryl

Will be thinking of you today. Know how you feel - spent more time than I'd realised 'preparing' myself for my first dose on Monday!!

Although not in sydney I'm sure those oncoly people will be as lovely as they are here so just let them look after you as well as you being selfish!!

Take care, Dette xxx

triple negative? I have an idea of what it is but really would appreciate knowing for sure... obviously I was not this....LOL

Your nervousness is completely understandable, we all have these feelings as we try to get our heads around the unknown. I hate needles too, so I must be a wimp also. By the end of tests, surgery & treatment I really felt like a pin cushion, even my veins ran for cover, making it difficult to find them. If I never see another needle it would be too soon - like that is going to happen.  LOL

Good Luck on your treatment Wednesday & of course remaining treatments. I have completed all my treatments as of early Feb this year but need to take Femara for the next 5 years now.

Keep positive, I have found the ladies on here to be very supportive & friendly in the short while I have been here, so if u need to vent or whatever we are only a few keystrokes away. I just wish I had availed myself of this site much earlier in my journey.

Cheryl