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Roxie66
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9 years ago

Terrible veins a year after finishing herceptin- will they ever get better?

I had 6 cycles of chemo and 17 cycles of Herceptin  which finished in May last year. I didn't have a port as I didn't want one (sort of wish I had now) and my veins are still terrible. Everytime I have to have a blood test it takes multiple tries and twice I have nearly passed out. Once they took it out of my foot, which was fine, but apparently they don't like to do that unless it's a last resort. Yesterday it took 30 minutes to get enough blood out of me for blood tests. I can only use my right arm as I had lymph nodes take out under my left arm. Has anyone else had this problem and had  it improved with time? The nurses say it does but it seems to be getting worse...

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