Anyone Else Taking Taxotere and Cytoxan?

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Anyone Else Taking Taxotere and Cytoxan?

groucho2

I just started a regimen of taxotere and cytoxan for four rounds. I have my first infusions today. I feel fine tonight, and am drinking my water, ect. like I was advised.

My questions have to do with what to expect from this combo? I've read the official side effects and am prepared for fatique, constipation/diarrhea, bone pain (from the Neupragin shot tomorrow). I've read some people go through this with little to no side effects, while others have many side effects. What are your stories? When did you lose your hair? on what day of your cycle did your side effects really start bothering you?

Let's trade some information!

Hopefloatsinyyc

it's a pretty common regime. I would recommend joining our August 2016 chemo group... So you are going through it with women all being treated at roughly the same time... We learn from one another. I know there are some in the group with your protocol.

CrawfordsMommy

Everyone is different, so you may react to this regimen better or worse than some people. I'm on this regimen and my SEs have been... well, they've been there, but they're not unbearable or anything. Just a little pile of annoyances. It's not fun the first week or so after treatment, but not as horrific as I'd imagined. It's the typical combo: fatigue, nausea, the usual suspects. My #1 piece of advice is to drink the heck out of some water. Like, a gallon a day starting on the day of your chemo (preferably the day before, really). Hydrate like crazy because it rinses those toxic drugs out of your system. Chemo doesn't have to sit around in your body and it's not supposed to. It goes in, it circulates, it kills some cancer and then you need to excrete it or else it's just going to percolate into your tissues and make you sicker than you ought to be.

I did get a mouth sore after my first treatment because I was a dummy and didn't drink ice water/suck ice chips during injection of the chemo. It was a nasty thing. It was a three-quarter inch hole that took up part of my bottom lip and ate into the inside of my mouth. It took forever to heal and looked awful. I fixed that problem second time around by sucking on ice, and didn't get a mouth sore or even the tiniest hint of one at the following treatment.

I'm so glad I got a Power Port installed because I get my blood drawn all the time now, and it makes going in for labs a snap. I'm keeping it through my next few surgeries because it's so handy.

My hair fell out, my blood counts are in the toilet for like 2 weeks after each treatment (leaving me housebound... YUCK), I'm tired all the time, and I don't care for taking so many pills, but I'll survive and I'm sure you'll manage, too. Best of luck to you!