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Yes, Maria,
I find it is quite common...to fuel up so to speak...I think folks don't really know just HOW demanding it is for the body to undergo the herceptin process...first just imagine: As far as your body is concerned, when you get Herceptin, from the body's point of view, it is just as though INVADERS HAVE LANDED...even though these "good guys" merely land on cancer rich lilly pads with cute little her-2 receptors on them that have heretofore gone completely undetected by the immune system. Now that these secret pads have been discovered, it is as if Herceptin TAGS them with a kill me now SIGN and suddenly the fire alarms and emergency whistles go off signaling "we have an invader we have an invader" but to mount the attack..the body must go through a process not so different, sadly, from what the U.S. army had to do to get all THOSE trunks tanks and weapons to IRAQ. What is worse, the immune system has as much paperwork and procedures to fill out as the government...gee, is it any wonder so many of us don't make it...a little black humor there...Finally, once the immune system has gathered the fuel it needs and whipped up batch after batch of new immune cells...off it goes to the tagged lilly pads which now have the big neon signs marked KILL ME NOW blarin... But alas, this is just the beginning of the war...getting there, as we have learned all too well from Iraq, is JUST THE BEGINNIGING, the immune system (and the U.S. Governement) will need enough fuel and energy and "funding" not only to surround each cancer filled lilly pad, but will have to break these "cells" down one by one and then carry the debris out through the digestive tract....this is quite a process, make no mistake...that is why I like to rest after I get the herceptin as the whole thing wears me out....Best of luck to you, Gina
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