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Andrea Barnett Budin · 01-01-2008, 03:03 PM

SINCE I'VE BEEN ON HERCEPTIN FOREVER, IT IS HARD TO DISTINGUISH SOME SYMPTOMS. I have a little cough tat is not wheezy or phlegmy. Just a dry thing that has a need to come up here and there and throughout the day. I can live with it...

HOWEVER, a few wks ago I had a hacking cough and an upper respiratory flu that made my ribs hurt. It was exhausting coughing nonstop! I was given a prescription expectorant and that helped right off. Anything with codeine in it helps a cough. Just watch taking it during the day. It is strong. It'll give you the best night sleep ever, but not recommended for daytime, unless you're confined to the house...

My chest scans are all clear and stable. Hope all yours are too!!

Andi

01-01-2008, 03:03 PM	#5
Andrea Barnett Budin Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: LAND OF YES! w/home in Boca Raton, Florida Orig from L.I., N.Y. Ever hovering IN THE NOW... Posts: 1,904	Coughing... SINCE I'VE BEEN ON HERCEPTIN FOREVER, IT IS HARD TO DISTINGUISH SOME SYMPTOMS. I have a little cough tat is not wheezy or phlegmy. Just a dry thing that has a need to come up here and there and throughout the day. I can live with it... HOWEVER, a few wks ago I had a hacking cough and an upper respiratory flu that made my ribs hurt. It was exhausting coughing nonstop! I was given a prescription expectorant and that helped right off. Anything with codeine in it helps a cough. Just watch taking it during the day. It is strong. It'll give you the best night sleep ever, but not recommended for daytime, unless you're confined to the house... My chest scans are all clear and stable. Hope all yours are too!! Andi __________________ Andi BB '95 post-meno dx Invasive LOBULAR w/9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier. Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF). Borderline ER/PR. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive... '98 -- multiple mets to liver. HER2+ 80%. ER/PR- Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast. New PORT. 9 mnths Taxotere Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!) + good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either... Added Herceptin Nov '98 (6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08! Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug! NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings) EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE. Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle. Up to me and God now...