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Chelee · 04-22-2007, 12:06 AM

Harrie, There are many women that do have side affects from herceptin...but I find more don't then do. (Or so it seems that way to me.) I did TCH also and I know when I was doing all three drugs I couldn't tell which one did what for sure. But I can tell you once I was off the taxotere and carb...herceptin was a piece of cake. I did forget to mention as Brenda said...I did have a runny nose most the time. It gets old to say the least. But again, towards the end of my year even that quit.

I think you will find herceptin is like being on pretty much nothing. Its a breeze after you get through your chemo.

It sounds like you are tolerating herceptin rather well already...so I wouldn't worry to much about all the posts you read about women having side affects. We all react so different to these drugs. I can pretty much bet you it will be a breeze for you too. I think you will find being tired is one of the worse side affects the day of herceptin. Other then that maybe the darned runny nose & headache off and on. I am so serious...towards the last 5 months of herceptin...I felt no side affects. It was great.

Good luck to you, you will do fine.

Chelee

04-22-2007, 12:06 AM	#6
Chelee Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southern, CA Posts: 2,511	Harrie, There are many women that do have side affects from herceptin...but I find more don't then do. (Or so it seems that way to me.) I did TCH also and I know when I was doing all three drugs I couldn't tell which one did what for sure. But I can tell you once I was off the taxotere and carb...herceptin was a piece of cake. I did forget to mention as Brenda said...I did have a runny nose most the time. It gets old to say the least. But again, towards the end of my year even that quit. I think you will find herceptin is like being on pretty much nothing. Its a breeze after you get through your chemo. It sounds like you are tolerating herceptin rather well already...so I wouldn't worry to much about all the posts you read about women having side affects. We all react so different to these drugs. I can pretty much bet you it will be a breeze for you too. I think you will find being tired is one of the worse side affects the day of herceptin. Other then that maybe the darned runny nose & headache off and on. I am so serious...towards the last 5 months of herceptin...I felt no side affects. It was great. Good luck to you, you will do fine. Chelee __________________ DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes. Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs. Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06 Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07 3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07 9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV. 9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa 9-29-09 Power Port Placement 10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head. 11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed 12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa. 3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed. 4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone. 5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy. Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time. 7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.