Side Effects of Adriamycin/Cytoxin and Taxol/Herceptin

[madubois63]

>>My mom has had a very difficult day so far today--she is three days out from her second treatment.<<

Day three was always the worst day for me. Keep gingerale, (string) black licorice or licorice tea, pickled ginger (like the sushi kind - seafood department or oriental grocery store) or crysallized ginger (cooking ilse) for the "day 3" blues...
also, clear broths, jello, sherbert, crackers, pretzles and nutty whole grain breads. I've heard some people live on potatoes too.


I found the Taxol to be much easier on me than the adriomycin/cytoxin. But, remember you still have the adriomycin in you and even though you will be getting taxol, your eye lashes and eye brows will fall out. That is residual effects from the adriomycin. My hair started grown back rather quickly during the Taxol treatments and the brows and lashes come back pretty quickly too. Within a year and a half my hair was back to my normal length (see picture).


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