Severe face rash -- Herceptin or chemo?

[juanita]

I she taking a steroid with it for nausea? There was a lady in my oncs office with this and they told her it was the steroid medicine she was taking.

[Audrey]

Hi Raquel, I developed a severe, burning rash on my face, near my eye, shortly after starting Herceptin (several years ago). the rash turned out to be shingles, brought on by my weakened immune system from all the chemo. Apparently, if you've had chicken pox in the past, it can re-surface as shingles, especially if the immune system is compromised. The rash went away after a few miserable weeks...just something to consider as a possibility...

[atdec05]

I had a rash on my face that developed at the start of my weekly herceptin. It did not burn though. After about 4 visits it went away.

[MJo]

On the Johns Hopkins Ask an Expert website, several women who received Taxol wrote they got rash relief from diaper rash ointment. I'd get the odorless kind.