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Shadow,
I'm so happy you made a decision! Congratulations. I experienced very few side effects from taxol and herceptin. It was a breeze for me expecially after 3 months of A/C. I hope you have an easy time too. I experienced no nausea which was the worst side effect for me with the A/C chemo. One thing to be prepared for though given your age....you will experience massive hormonal swings....be prepared for crying jags and extreme sadness. In my opinion this is related to chemopause (of course, dealing with a cancer diagnosis is tragic in itself) but I could not believe how sad I was. I am not a baseline depressed person and I wasn't prepared for this part of it. The good news is that the mood fluctuations are TEMPORARY (or at least they were for me). I got my period back 6 weeks after chemo ended. Also, hot flashes are hell. Get a fan for your bedside.
Good luck and PM me anytime.
Janelle
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Janelle
Diagnosed October 2006 at age 37 wtih grade 3 IDC and high grade DCIS
Stage 1c triple positive, no node involvement but
vascular invasion
multifocal disease
Lumpectomy November, 2006
A/C every 3 weeks (started Jan., 2007 and finished March 2007); followed weekly Taxol (finished June 2007) concurrent with Herceptin (finished March 2008);
Bilateral Mast with immediate recon in Sept 2007; finished recon Dec. 2007
Started 5 years of tamoxifen Nov. 2007; started peptide vaccine clinical trial at MD Anderson October 2008 and finished active part of trial in April 2009 (monthly injections of AE37 peptitde (HLA type specific) with GM-CSF or GM-CSF alone depending on if I was in experimental or control group); started Zometa infusions June 25, 2009- 4mg every 6 months for 3 years (taking it "off-label" to try to prevent mets)
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