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Also, regardless of finishing your year of Herceptin or not, as Lolly said, there are drugs to help your heart - period. Call that cardiologist and discuss this with him. Call your oncologist and make an appointment to see him in one month (to discuss getting another muga/echo) to see if you can restart Herceptin.
In the meantime, start taking CoQ10 if you haven't been - start out slow (50mg with breakfast) and work up to 300 - 400 mg per day taken about evenly with each meal (when I was on Herceptin I took 200mg with breakfast and 100mg with lunch and dinner). DO NOT start taking it all at once. After a few days on 50mg with breakfast, start taking an additional 50 with lunch then progress after a few days to another 50 with dinner. I think you get what I mean. There are studies with folks that just have CHF that 370mg - 500mg per day was all they needed. You never know.
Also, Omega 3 fatty acids can help too.
You will get through this little, little blip in the road.
I am thinking of you.
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Kind regards
Becky
Found lump via BSE
Diagnosed 8/04 at age 45
1.9cm tumor, ER+PR-, Her2 3+(rt side)
2 micromets to sentinel node
Stage 2A
left 3mm DCIS - low grade ER+PR+Her2 neg
lumpectomies 9/7/04
4DD AC followed by 4 DD taxol
Used Leukine instead of Neulasta
35 rads on right side only
4/05 started Tamoxifen
Started Herceptin 4 months after last Taxol due to
trial results and 2005 ASCO meeting & recommendations
Oophorectomy 8/05
Started Arimidex 9/05
Finished Herceptin (16 months) 9/06
Arimidex Only
Prolia every 6 months for osteopenia
NED 18 years!
Said Christopher Robin to Pooh: "You must remember this: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"
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