Hello

Hi Ann-Marie yes I did get aches and pains, it was like I imagine it would be like to have the flu ( I have never had the flu) nurofen did help also a hot pack or the electric blanket, I don't know if you have the biotene products but I found that the dry mouth is so much worse with the taxotere than with FEC but sucking ice helped but keeping the spray beside the bed was the best or the gel mind you I used everything, and I can't get rid of this awful taste in my mouth I think that is what is making me irritable because it has lasted so long I am usually a patient person but this time I am not, poor hubby has spent more time this last week in his shed, the more he tries the more he puts his foot in it...............the other day he told me not to worry only 2 more to go and here I am thinking at this moment it might as well be 22 I didn't feel any better. (sound awful don't I)

I also just had no energy up until yesterday but am still not firing on all engines, i don't know if it is that your tolerance gets less each time and the symptoms last longer, I have found each cycle lasted longer than the last.

Don't forget that everyone is different and I can't understand that they told me it was not going to be as bad as FEC if they didn't think it was so maybe I just reacted more to it than some people, I will be interested to hear how you go, hopefully you will be fine, the nausea is there but it is not as bad, but I did feel weak and no energy and did sleep a fair bit.

Cheerio for now,

Jacqui xx