TDM1 breathing/fatigue question
Hello to all. I have been hesitating to ask because I don't want to complain but I am the kind who needs to know what is going on in my body even if it doesn't change anything. Here is my question related to TDM1 side effects:
I had 3 treatments. At each treatment, starting at the end of week 1, I feel tired (not tired as I was with FEC or Taxol or other treatments, I mean exhausted), but worse I am very limited. I cannot take a shower or move around without being breathless and having pain in my thorax. The only way to prevent that is to stay in bed. It gets better the last days of the third week. I asked the onc who said they did not know what it was. The heart was checked and is OK. My blood counts are OK. They said the tumors in my lungs are small and would not generate that. They had just seen the scan and there was nothing else to report than the tumors in the lung area. I read on the list of possible side effects"dyspnea, pain in the thorax". Is that it? I did not see anybody really report this on our forum although I read fatigue and once pain in the thorax. Did this happen to you? Do you know where it comes from? Any advice?
I have so many things I feel like doing, start and have to abandon, even in the house.
Michka
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08.2006 3 cm IDC Stage 2-3, HER2 3+ ER+90% PR 20%
FEC, Taxol+ Herceptin, Mastectomy, Radiation, Herceptin 1 year followed by Tykerb 1 year,Aromasin /Faslodex
12.2010 Mets to liver,Herceptin+Tykerb
03.2011 Liver resection ER+70% PR-
04.2011 Herceptin+Navelbine+750mg Tykerb
06.2011 Liver ned, Met to sternum. Added Zometa 09.2011 Cyberknife for sternum
11.2011 Pet clear. Stop Navelbine, continuing on Hercpetin+Tykerb+Aromasin
02.2012 Mets to lungs, nodes, liver
04.2012 TDM1, Ned in 07.2012
04.2015 Stop TDM1/Kadcyla, still Ned, liver problems
04.2016 Liver mets. Back on Kadcyla
08.2016 Kadcyla stopped working. mets to liver lungs bones
09.2016 Biopsy to liver. no more HER2, still ER+
09.2016 CMF Afinitor/Aromasin/ Xgeva.Met to eye muscle Cyberknife
01.2017 Gemzar/Carboplatin/ Ibrance/Faslodex then Taxotere
02.2017 30 micro mets to brain breathing getting worse and worse
04.2017 Liquid biopsy/CTC indicates HER2 again. Start Herceptin with Halaven
06.2017 all tumors shrunk 60% . more micro mets to brain (1mm mets) no symptoms
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