[Terri B]

Maria,

I just finished my 12 weeks of taxol/herceptin.. here's how the weeks went for me:

treatment day: felt pretty good, very sleepy/groggy from the benedryl. I would go home and sleep til about 4 in the afternoon, then, the steriods would keep me up the rest of the night!

day 2: groggy from not sleeping the night before, but actually kind of jacked up from the steriods.

day3: coming down from the steroids, the fatigue would set in. For me, that meant feeling "sleepy" all day.

day 4: more fatigue

day 5: rebounding

day 6: felt GREAT. able to do chores, excersize, socialize.

day 7: more of day 6. preparing for treatment day again.

On the downside, i have one bad nasty mouth sore that really gave me problems for about two weeks, but it's getting better now. Also, at the beginning of treatment, I had allergic reaction to the taxol. After trying different things for two weeks, they settled on giving me the infusion slower (1 1/2 hours instead of 1 hour), PLUS they upped my dose of benedryl to 50mg (from 25).

On the GOOD side, I still have a headfull of hair!! Granted, the next round that i'm going to start in September will probably knock it all off my head, but i still have it now!!

I had crispy feeling feet. isn't that weird? Other than that, It was VERY tolerable for me.

GOOD LUCK girl. You will do GREAT!