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Cristina19 · 08-28-2007, 04:43 PM

Oh my gosh, you all are great. Thank you for responding. I look forward to hearing more.

The steroid I have been given is Decadron 4 mg. I'm only supposed to take it the day before, day of, and day after chemo. The others are strictly anti-nausea, if I'm not mistaken.

Thanks for the Glutamine recommendation. I think I'm more worried about the possible side-effects of chemo than the cancer. None of this has ever seemed "real" to me. My diagnosis came completely out of the blue. I felt healthy; I had no symptoms. I was sent for a diagnostic mammogram for what I described as a fibrous ridge and that's what it was; in the meanwhile, they found everything else.

I've been doing some reading about supplements and have started CoQ10, a coenzyme that has been used to strengthen the heart and has been used in studies with people who are experiencing heart damage/failure. I figure this may offset issues of cardiotoxicity. I'm also looking into Milk Thistle to maintain liver health. These seem to be pretty benign complementary therapies unless anyone has wisdom on this.

Also, this is probably not new to the members of this site, but the substance in Green Tea (EGCG) which works directly with a protein to which Her2 is a "client protein" to block its negative effects. It's worth a read:

http://www.newstarget.com/007972.html

http://www.aicr.org/site/News2?abbr=...rticle&id=8997

My infusion time period is slotted for 5 hours so I'm going to be taking lots of reading, my iPod, and most importantly, my Latin textbook. Crazy me: I enrolled in my boyfriend's Latin class (he's a professor and so am I). We keep laughing that the misery of Latin will distract me from the misery of chemo!

Thank you so much.
C.

08-28-2007, 04:43 PM	#9
Cristina19 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 38	Oh my gosh, you all are great. Thank you for responding. I look forward to hearing more. The steroid I have been given is Decadron 4 mg. I'm only supposed to take it the day before, day of, and day after chemo. The others are strictly anti-nausea, if I'm not mistaken. Thanks for the Glutamine recommendation. I think I'm more worried about the possible side-effects of chemo than the cancer. None of this has ever seemed "real" to me. My diagnosis came completely out of the blue. I felt healthy; I had no symptoms. I was sent for a diagnostic mammogram for what I described as a fibrous ridge and that's what it was; in the meanwhile, they found everything else. I've been doing some reading about supplements and have started CoQ10, a coenzyme that has been used to strengthen the heart and has been used in studies with people who are experiencing heart damage/failure. I figure this may offset issues of cardiotoxicity. I'm also looking into Milk Thistle to maintain liver health. These seem to be pretty benign complementary therapies unless anyone has wisdom on this. Also, this is probably not new to the members of this site, but the substance in Green Tea (EGCG) which works directly with a protein to which Her2 is a "client protein" to block its negative effects. It's worth a read: http://www.newstarget.com/007972.html http://www.aicr.org/site/News2?abbr=...rticle&id=8997 My infusion time period is slotted for 5 hours so I'm going to be taking lots of reading, my iPod, and most importantly, my Latin textbook. Crazy me: I enrolled in my boyfriend's Latin class (he's a professor and so am I). We keep laughing that the misery of Latin will distract me from the misery of chemo! Thank you so much. C.