[Becky]

Jean


During chemo, take your multi. However, don't take more than 100mg CoQ10 per day(or don't take any at all 3 days before or 3 days after a treatment and then you can resume your 400mg - takes 3 days to leave the body. When you are on Herceptin alone, you can resume this amt daily). The Fish oil/omega 3 is okay in any amount. Since you are taking taxol, you could take one tablet of curcumin (or eat turmeric or curcumin/curry during the 24 hour period of getting taxol - this spice (in vitro) has been shown to have beneficial syngerstic effects with the taxanes)). All the others I would stop as there is no evidence that it is good or bad (might protect the cancer cells but it might not).

Get what you need from food. Nuts for vitamin E. Green for folic acid. Oranges/tomatoes/citrus/peppers for vitamin C. It is the safest thing during chemo.

The calcium I think is fine. Also, this time of year - 10-15 minutes of sunlight on unprotected skin 2 or 3 times per week gives you more natural vitamin D than 1000 mg per day (arms, legs, face) and its not too much to be able to cause other problems. In winter, with the sun's angle, you can't do this even if you can tolerate the cold temperatures.

I don't know anything about Cosamin so you should ask the nutritionist at your cancer center (and the lecithin too). The B complex is also a no-no.

Hope this helps and is only my opinion. I am not a true believer that vitamins during chemo is bad but there is no evidence that it does any good and no evidence that it doesn't harm - so most advice is to stay away.

Be well Jean. I am thinking of you.

All I did during chemo was take a multi (with minerals) and fish oil tablets. I did Herceptin sequentially (after chemo and rads) and that's when I really started everything else. (to include CoQ10, maitake mushrooms, olive leaf, vit A, vit D (do the sunlight now), tumeric, a full strength aspirin and still the multi and fish oil.

Kind regards

Becky