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I just finished my 6 chemo treatments. and I too was scared to death in the beginning. But now that its done, I can honestly say it wasn't that bad. For the first few days, I was a little tired and stomach sick but by the end of the first week I was back to myself. Yes, I lost all my hair, that I loved dearly, but now thats not such a bad thing, and its great to go somewhere and get ready in 10-15 minutes, no hair to worry about!! You have to look at the positive side of things. Like everyone else is saying you want to give yourself the best chance possible and I believe chemo is the way to go. I have to start my rads in 2 weeks, 25 of those. Tamoxifen for 5 years and then after the rads I have herceptin every three weeks for a year. Im not going to complain, so far everything is showing good and I trust and believe in my doctors that they are doing everything possible for me to beat this thing. These are just my feelings on how I dealt with it. Good luck in your decision, do what you think is right for you.
All the best
Dawn
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Dawn
Mar 2006Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu 3+++, Er & Pr positive, 8 of 18 pos 03/14/06: Mastectomy 04/19/06 started Chemo adriamycin, chlophosphamide, taxotere 25 rads
Nov 1, 06: 3 years Tamoxifen, Herceptin (1yr)
Jan 2009 Femara mets to bone aromasin and aredia
June2009: Full Histerectomy
2/22/2010 6 spots in liver 2 mm-10 mm: switched to xeloda and Herceptin will continue with Aredia J
Scan February 2011 new onc, switch to abraxane
April 2011 NED clear organs, 3 spots on bone scar tissue.
Scans August 2mm spot on liver and lungs. now on to tykerb/xeloda
Dec 2011 scans nothing on lungs, liver down to 1 2 mm spot. j
une 2012 another spot on liver on to cisplatin/gemzar.
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