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Mary Lou,
Sounds like you managed to get through your treatment without too many side effects. As to when you will begin to feel normal again -- big question! Everyone is different and responds and bounces back differently. The hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, etc will grow back and about at the 4 month mark you should have a decent head of hair. A few months after you finish Herceptin you should start to notice improvement with bone/joint pain, running nose, etc. Just take things one day at a day and enjoy each and every day. You may find that you tire easily and this is quite natural. It takes your body a long time to get over all the effects of chemo. Good luck to you
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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