It all begins tomorrow!
Hi all,
Last week I was diagnosed with HER2 positive, node positive high-grade breast cancer. I begin weekly chemotherapy tomorrow starting with a heart scan in the morning, followed by 3.5 hours of...
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Hi Laura Maria,
I hope all goes well with you tomorrow. I'm sorry this has happened to you.
I also had Herceptin & paclitaxel as Abraxane. There are different formulations of paclitaxel. I found both treatments not bad at all. I'm still on herceptin. I started these treatments straight after finishing 12 weeks of EC chemo.
I think the herceptin affects my sleep for a few nights afterwards. Neither the abraxane or the herceptin caused nausea, so I was able to even eat and drink while having chemo. I woudl talk with other patients during the while process. It was not comparison with the EC chemo.
Some of my hair fell out on EC chemo while I had a scalp cooling cap but then it re-grew while I was on Abraxane!
The abraxane was not bad at all at first. In the last few weeks I had two mouth ulcers. Down the track you may wish to buy something for that.
I also steered clear of crowds or people with infections to minimse the chance of picking up a bug. However, my blood counts always came back ok while on abraxane.
The hardest thing was my brain seemed to stop working properly by the end! I became really dumb! It is now 2 months since I finished it and I'm back to normal now!
Best wishes,
Flickety.