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Jan77
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10 years ago

Joint and Tendon pain after Chemo and while on Herceptin

My first post - I am interested hearing if anyone has experienced joint and tendon pain from Chemo/Herceptin. This is not pain during or just after treatment but rather is seems to be accumulative......
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Amazonia
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9 years ago
Hi Jan,
i had AC x 4 and it knocked me about..
Now on weekly Taxol and Herceptin 3 weekly..
Monday is week 4 with the combination.
I've just started getting joint pain. Hips mainly causing first disrupted sleep (lucky so far, I guess, with that.)
My oncologist is lovely and very informative and he says that the one downside to having Herceptin with Taxol is that the Herceptin can tend to drag out the Taxol side effects for awhile after the Taxol is completed.
They used to give th