FEC and heart palpitations

Hi @Loulou1969 I have started having heart issues after chemo and radiotherapy. Just let your doctor know about any heart issues.

@Loulou1969 That's no good ☹ I was put on the injections Fragmin as they are specifically for clots caused by chemo. The team of Drs reckoned it was the best...am sure they will all have their own ideas tho! Is warfarin a tablet? Plus, to be pedantic, my team at my home hospital say I do not have cancer, as I had a lumpectomy and full axillary clearance. So what I am having chemo, rad and the Herceptin for is 'preventative treatment'.  They then said it is to 'mop up' any cancer cells left over. But I don't have cancer. What I do know I have is no sense of humour at the moment ... I think my 7 days in hospital really mucked me up psychologically. Just feel tired, down and lacking resilience.  xxx

Well done for keeping at it! That is definitely serious and really might have been picked up sooner with proper attention by staff.  Day oncology staff (Epworth) picked up tachycardia (turned out to be atrial fibrillation) when I was totally unaware of it (I am virtually symptom free). Eminently treatable but might have been a different story. 

After my 4th chemo I also had blood clot in my lungs!! They could not find where it came from.. I have now finished chemo and just started warfarin.. hopefully I can stop the twice daily injections.. all the doctors could say the reason why I got the clot was that I had cancer..!

I started out with fluttery heart after chemo...as per my above post. Then had a heaviness and sometimes cramp in the night in chest area which I thought was heartburn. For 9 weeks I have been reporting this, dry cough and leg cramp to chemo onc team. Was hospitalised for neutropenia last week at a different closer hospital, not my treating one. Turns out those were the symptoms of blood clot in lung - piece of clot broke off from calf and travelled to lung. (Deep vein thrombosis in leg and pulmomary embolism in lung.) I now have to give myself injections in tummy for next 6 months - Blood thinner Fragmen. I would advise taking notes of your side effects and being more assertive than I was re continual probs. If you have anything new ones crop up, hammer it home to either GP or chemo onc. The tests they did for the clots involved a dye...so not just the one to check your heart is beating okay! Don't want to be fear-mongering but this was a serious event and I could have been complaining for the next 9 weeks of chemo without a test being conducted and while my clot grew or moved again.

Agree please check with your team so they are aware of how you are travelling with treatment.  Take care

Please do mention it to your medical staff. It's almost certainly a reaction, but if by any chance it is not, it is very treatable.

Yes my heart raced all through chemo once finished it all settles down. X 

I had heart flutters within 5 minutes of taking the steroids after my first chemo, plus joint pain, etc.  They stopped after 2 hours. The same happened the next day...stopped after 2 hours again. Nothing after that. I rang my chemo nurse and she said if it happened again, come in to ER for a little check up to see what's going on. It wasn't dire at the time, just fluttery. Will do as she says next chemo/steroid period.xx

Hi @Loulou1969, I just wanted to jump in to mention that if you are experiencing any side effects from treatment that you are concerned about, it might be best to bring it up with your Medical team so they can discuss this with you.