Anyone listening??

[Tricia]

Hi My name is Tricia and I am 31 and was diagnosed Jan 4 2007 after being misdiagnosed for 3 months. I was told I was too young for breast cancer, no family history and "breast cancer doesn't hurt" all this after going to the Dr. complaining of right breast pain. Anyway to make a long story shorter... Excisional biopsy on Jan 4 2007 confirmed 7cm tumor and 4-5 other smaller ones. Had port placed on Jan 18 started my first chemo Jan 22 ( taxol/herceptin) all other scans showed no signs of mets... Praise God!!! My onc called me into his office after doing some research with UCLA oncs and he decided to change my regimen on the next chemo which was Feb 12 He started me on Taxotere, Carboplatin, Herceptin..... and man am I sick. My bones ache, my hair is gone, my vision is blurried most of the time, I run from both ends, I am on all kinds of other symptom controlling medications.... But I have two more pre-op treatments of chemo left and then they will do the radical/Mastectomy and then a year of the herceptin. But I have to say after being this sick...I can't feel the tumor at all!!! So I keep my thinking positive, my husband juices for me every day and I just keep counting the treatments down one by one..... God is good and works for the good in all things. If anyone out there has had this type of chemo please tell me about what you went through and any other ideas on controlling symptoms..... any advice you can pass would be greatly appreciated and used. Thank you and God Bless!!!