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OK guys...changing the subject (kind of) a little here, but just wondering....has anyone who is now off the Herceptin lost any weight? I also had to take my rings off, and I have been an exercising FOOL for 3 solid months now (walking 6 miles a day, sometimes twice a day), and have only lost 2.5 pounds of the 15 that I have gained .....THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!! I am also eating like a bird. I am praying that most of it will just melt off when I finish in Sept. The only positive thing I can say is that I have been holding things steady at the same wieght for about 6 months now.
As far as the aching complaints...NOT WHAT I WANTED TO HEAR. I have been on every different regimen of Herceptin that we can do and suffered through most of it with awful joint and muscular pain. I would say its even worse that when I was on the Taxol. Was hoping that would disappear quickly after I was done.
It has truely been a "love-hate" relationship with Herceptin :-) .............
Love, Kelly
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dx'd 05/06, 37 years old
er/pr-, Her2+, grade 3
double mastectomy, immediate reconstruction- implants
Stage 2b, 2 tumors- 2.2 cm and 0.6 cm, 3/5 + nodes
all scans clear
genetic testing- negative
06/06 began dd A/C x 4, 12 weekly Taxols w/ Herceptin
30 rads
Herceptin weekly x 1 year
Herceptin completed 08/07
Port removed 12/26/07 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
05/17/08 Two year anniversary NED
"We gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... you must do the thing that you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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