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Kari_2015
9 years agoMember
Hi Sam
I have been on Herceptin and Perjeta (first 3 with Taxol) since 2015. The first few I had bone aching and mild diarrhea, I think the taxol caused the aching. Side effects now are very minimal - some weeks I have mild diarrhea, soreness around the fingernails, numbness in my foot that comes and goes. For me the most annoying is my fingernails are weak and just split (never happened before cancer) and the last few months my skin on my back, neck and upper chest has heaps of little like heat pimples and feels like sandpaper. Don't know for sure if its from the herceptin/perjeta, I'm on it inidefinately so I guess if it never improves I will know for sure!!
Kari
I have been on Herceptin and Perjeta (first 3 with Taxol) since 2015. The first few I had bone aching and mild diarrhea, I think the taxol caused the aching. Side effects now are very minimal - some weeks I have mild diarrhea, soreness around the fingernails, numbness in my foot that comes and goes. For me the most annoying is my fingernails are weak and just split (never happened before cancer) and the last few months my skin on my back, neck and upper chest has heaps of little like heat pimples and feels like sandpaper. Don't know for sure if its from the herceptin/perjeta, I'm on it inidefinately so I guess if it never improves I will know for sure!!
Kari