Please post your two cents on Herceptin "side effects" real or perceived!

[skye]

Thanks, Karen, it's good to know the effects may lessen, and that the weight gain isn't hopeless. I had that sense of strange smells and tastes, lost my taste for wine and chocolate, during AC but it went away after starting Taxol and so far has not recurred. It sounds like new symptoms can crop up at any time with Herceptin treatment, however. Why is it that the docs seem to be in such denial over these things? - Skye