Mets Pain or Necrosis Pain?
For my 4th weekly treatment, Onc decided to skip. He said 3 weeks on, 1 week off. This is the first week I have felt better. I have been so sore and achy since I started taking the Taxol/Paraplatin/Herceptin weekly treatment. My first treatment was 4mg/kg. I slept the first night, by the second day I started having some cramps on my liver (2 mets on my liver). I had never felt sore on my liver before. By end of the first day after the treatment, I was so sore I could hardly breathe without wincing. I drugged myself up with 2 pain pills, and by the next morning, I felt a little better. It took 2 days for the feeling to subside.
The next 2 treatments were 2mg/kg of Herceptin, and I hadn't had that terrible pain in my liver, but I have ached and felt sore in so many areas it's ridiculous. I have managed so far.
But on the 4th week, I had no treatment, and finally felt better for the first time in a month. I don't mean just better, but SIGNIFICANTLY better. After the first really bad day, I asked why I was cramping so hard. They said it might be the disease itself or necrosis. I thought, if it were the disease, wouldn't it be hurting more and more each day, each week, each month? For the first time, I feel so much better. It just happens to be the week I haven't had treatment. Is this coincidence?
OR does Necrosis Hurt?! (BAD!)
Will the 5th treatment be 4mg/kg again? Or will it be 2mg? I thought he said it was 2mg. After the cramping from the 4mg treatment, I almost hope that it will be 2mg. Then again, I hope it will be 4mg again so maybe it will give a big punch to the mets in my bones and liver.
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