[rinaina]

don't you hate it when a doctor or nurse makes you feel like your complaints of side effects are not valid just because they never heard of them? i am convinced there are things we just don't know yet about some of the side effects of herceptin or any newish drug because they haven't been around long enough to discover everything there is to know about them. no medical professional should poo poo any complaint we have about a possible side effect. it enrages me but since getting cancer i do not let it get the best of me. i simply tell the doc or nurse, "i know what i am feeling and if it isn't from the drug then what is it from? if they don't have an answer and it isn't listed as a known side effect, that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't from it. medical science doesn't know everything yet and never will. things change to quickly. that is my 2 cents.