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mz.quail · 07-07-2011, 10:35 PM

I just joined today. Was looking for something else, but can give you my experience with Tykerb. Started chemo with Docetaxel and Carboplatin in combinations with Trastuzumab and Lapatinib (Tykerb) last Aug of 2009. I was taking 4 pills a day and at around the end of the first week, I was very sick to stomach/diarrhea. I was asked to take 3. Didn't have any more nausea, but continued to have diarrhea to the point of getting a really sore butt, found that using the donut hole cushion I had really helped. I got through it..one whole years worth of horse pills. In time like everything else your body makes adjustments. It was something that I could quit at any time, but if it will help me and anyone else with this problem... I'm glad I did it.

07-07-2011, 10:35 PM	#26
mz.quail Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: I live in Montana. After living in big cities most of my life, being in an area where the rush hour is clocked at 17 minutes...is really refreshing. Posts: 1	Re: herceptin + tykerb (no xeloda) I just joined today. Was looking for something else, but can give you my experience with Tykerb. Started chemo with Docetaxel and Carboplatin in combinations with Trastuzumab and Lapatinib (Tykerb) last Aug of 2009. I was taking 4 pills a day and at around the end of the first week, I was very sick to stomach/diarrhea. I was asked to take 3. Didn't have any more nausea, but continued to have diarrhea to the point of getting a really sore butt, found that using the donut hole cushion I had really helped. I got through it..one whole years worth of horse pills. In time like everything else your body makes adjustments. It was something that I could quit at any time, but if it will help me and anyone else with this problem... I'm glad I did it.