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rentrac · 09-01-2007, 11:46 AM

I am so relieved to find out I'm not the only one having the split skin problems. I'm no longer on Heceptin, but am on Tykerb and Xeloda. I'm in a newly started clinic and have to write multiple prescriptions a day by hand until we get an electronic system installed. Between flipping through charts and the writing, I'm looking either like a major Klutz with bandaids on all 6 bleeding finger tips, or like a beginner mummy if I use the thin paper tape to hold by fingers together! I'll take all the suggestions I can get! If it weren't for the tetracycline I was put on for the Tykerb acne, I'd have infected fingers as well. My toes have developed blisters. I've been babying them because I recall how awful they felt when I was on AC, and my skin is so dry and sensitive now that even my lymphedema sleeve caused a lovely ring of blisters around my upper arm every where the grips touched - not allergic rxn with swelling, redness, itching but just perfectly spaced little blisters. How odd!
Rentrac

09-01-2007, 11:46 AM	#7
rentrac Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Eastern NC Posts: 65	I am so relieved to find out I'm not the only one having the split skin problems. I'm no longer on Heceptin, but am on Tykerb and Xeloda. I'm in a newly started clinic and have to write multiple prescriptions a day by hand until we get an electronic system installed. Between flipping through charts and the writing, I'm looking either like a major Klutz with bandaids on all 6 bleeding finger tips, or like a beginner mummy if I use the thin paper tape to hold by fingers together! I'll take all the suggestions I can get! If it weren't for the tetracycline I was put on for the Tykerb acne, I'd have infected fingers as well. My toes have developed blisters. I've been babying them because I recall how awful they felt when I was on AC, and my skin is so dry and sensitive now that even my lymphedema sleeve caused a lovely ring of blisters around my upper arm every where the grips touched - not allergic rxn with swelling, redness, itching but just perfectly spaced little blisters. How odd! Rentrac __________________ Oct. 2003: Dx age 48, Stage IIIA Ductal Ca. dense dose neoadjuvent AC. BrCa 1&2 -, ER+, PR-, Her2+. 2004: R mastectomy, 3+ nodes, dense doseTaxotere ( allergic), total hysterectomy, radiationx36 . Tamoxifen x6 mo., Arimidex x9 mo. Jan. '06: Multi left metastatic nodes left neck. Stage IV. Taxol, Carboplatin (allergic to both), Herceptin, radiationx27. Herceptin cont'd. 1 mediastinal met in old rad field. April: 2 brain mets - Rcerebellar, Ltemporal lobe. Gammaknife. Stop Herceptin, Start Tykerb. May: CyberKnife-mediastinal node, Zometa restart. July: New RLung mets. Xeloda add. Jan. 2008: CT: Lung mets shrinking. Fatty liver w/increased liver function panel. Feb '08: MRI: brain mets back, 2nd GammaKnife. June: Migraine headaches from cerebellar tumor. Team for WBR - Choose Craniotomy on Cerebellum only. Aug: Crainiotomy successful. Sept: PET -right lung apex clean; left internal mammary artery appears malignant. Herceptin in future. Left mastectomy? Last edited by rentrac; 09-01-2007 at 11:51 AM.. Reason: completion