Magellan2007

I just got my first dose of T/H and it was pretty rough. They stopped it twice to give me more steroids and benedryl. Once the stuff wore off, I began to experience painful muscle cramps in my hands and feet. Then my joints began to ache badly. I tried taking a couple of percosets but they made me nauseous and I am trying to get by on tylenol and epsom salts baths. I am very disappointed that I cannot keep up my daily walks because I have gained a lot of weight. I can hardly shuffle around the house today. If this doesn't let up, I'm going to try to switch to some other chemo agent. I have heard remarkable things about the Herceptin and have great hope that it will work for me.

My IDC was 2/3, and my DCIS was HIgh Grade. There's no number. What does all that mean? I'm only interested in the 87% likelyhood of no recurrence with standard chemo and radiation. I'm starting T/H in two weeks. I hope it's less toxic than the A/C.

Yeah, cancer sucks , doesn't it? I'm greatly encouraged by the posts about Herceptin. I'm gong to start it with taxol on Sept. 16. The insurance companies  are all bout the money, but this is our life! Is it true that there is another drug that exists that would replace taxol and doesn't have the adverse allergic effects? I heard it's more expensive, so the insurance companies don't want "in-network" oncs to use it.

Absolutly, probably near 90 % . You caught it early. Be as aggressive with the treatment as you can stand.

I'm stage 2/2. And I'm halfway through it. Even I can expext 87% no recurrance and my tumor was almost 3cm. Went right over to Manhatten to SK and the surgeon got it ALL. Clear margins .2 of 23 nodes. She really went after it.

Cancer sucks. I have a infection du jour, but my onc jumps on it. I would have gone to SK inNY but I just didn't think I could get home by myself. There's really no one who can take care of me.

J' 

I teach K,1, &2 and am now on my second chemo oc AC. Aside from the fact that my young students are normally a trial on my immune system, I am really wiped out for three or four days after. It takes a week for my white blood cell count to return to normal even with Nupigen. (which makes my bones ache) This time , I also developed Thrush which makes eating and drinking seriously difficult. Unfortunately, the long-term disability I hoped would help me has not been granted. If I am denied, I'll have to go back in September no matter what.

I've been getting AC every two weeks, and have found the chemo fog and fatigue debilitating for about three days. After this last round, I began having increasing difficuty swallowing. Any thing I managed to get down felt like razor blades in my stomach and intestines. Since I live alone and have no one to look in on me, I just crashed on the couch without eating or drinking. Initially, I just thought it was the chemo, BUT NO! By the time a friend came by to visit, I was in pretty bad shape. I was dehydrated and in tachychardia. It was because of the antinausea stuff:Thrush. Who knew? So no matter what- drink and eat something.