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Old 11-18-2007, 11:21 PM   #81
Chelee
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Hi Sue, I did six rounds of TCH and I know I had some swelling in my hands, fingers, feet, etc. The puffy face I always got seemed to be when I had to take that stupid decadron. I hated that stuff. Turned bright red, face was round and puffy. In my personal experience my hands and fingers were all swollen...and yes they did hurt at times. Unfortunetly many of us that did TCH had that problem. Plus you mentioned your arms aching. I had aches every where...places I didn't even know exsisted on my body. lol But you hang in there...you will get through this.

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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.
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Old 02-17-2011, 06:08 PM   #82
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Re: Taxotere, Carboplatin, Herceptin

Hi Bonnie - My Mom is going thru' Taxol Carbo and Hercep. and getting it weekly! Every Monday and yes it takes 4ever...she is great Tuesday and then CRASHES Wed. Thurs. a little better fri.!!! She fights the fatigue and starts to feel bad because she cant do much on those days!! Any words I can share or just reiterate that this CRASh is soo normal and to rest and sleep when her body tells her!!!! She says if she sleeps now she wont sleep thru' the night! She's been fightin' for 15 years! I guess it is tiring...ya know! Thanks Missy
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Old 02-18-2011, 07:09 AM   #83
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Re: Taxotere, Carboplatin, Herceptin

My husband called it CarboFlatten. All I can say is to go with the flow. She should do what she can, and let the rest go. Her body has to recover and for me carboplatin was the worst. She should sleep when she needs to. Don't fight it or she will be exhausted and that doesn't help recovery. Some nights I was up in the middle of the night on the computer here on the forum. I wasn't the only one. Know that it will get better.
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Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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