Taxol and No Side Effects-is it working?

I'm on my 10th of 12 weekly doses and I had virtually no side effects.  I did have some blood in my nose after week 5 or 6 and just started losing my eyebrows a few weeks ago.

I think weekly dose is gentle on the body and around 1/2 the women do have bone or joint pain.  Just be glad you don't.

They do say there is no correlation between effectiveness and severity of SE's.

i would just be grateful you are having an easy go of it! Remember you were young and healthy going in to it all too. That must help. Also the weekly dose is lower than that given to people on a two or three week cycle, so you may find it catching up with you a bit more once you are at the later stages.

Like Jenn, I had many s/e's with weekly taxol. Bleeding from nose, vagina, urethra, rectum, numbness in face, peripheral nueropathy, eye twitching, skin rashes.

I did NOT have..joint or bone pain, tearing of eyes, loss or discoloration of nails.

As you can see, we're all different.

Best wishes for continuing without side effects.

I guess I'm middle of the road.  I've had some joint pain, but only enough to keep me awake at night a couple times.  I can't sleep the night after treatment, but the rest of the week I'm fine.  I do have free-flowing bloody noses about every other day, and a lot of stuffiness/sinus pain, especially in the mornings, but in the grand scheme of things, not a big deal.  Neuropathy has been minor so far (fingers crossed!).  My energy has been great compared to AC!  I keep remembering my oncologist stressing that it's cumulative this go round and it will be harder the further along we get, but hopefully it won't get much worse for either of us!

Pure, Everyone responds so differently with treatments.

KerryMac is right. There is no correlation between effectiveness and SE's. I have heard that weekly treatments may reduce SE's. Just consider yourself one of the lucky ones and try not to think more of it. I know it's hard not to second guess things at times when dealing with bc and undergoing treatments. I am suffering from every SE one can get from Taxol. I had 2 already, my 3/4 is tomorrow. I get DD every 14 days. My onc scaled my 2nd infusion back 10% due to my SE's. I have neuropathy so bad in my fingers/hands, feet/toes and my mouth/lips and tongue (Although this is RARE-usually seen in another type of chemo) I have been told my my Onc. Also, I have had bad bone/muscle/joint pain, where I have trouble walking -unsteady gait, broke out in hives (all of legs/feet and arms/feet). I have never cried so much before due to the friggin SE's. I hope that the neuropathy will disappear after my final treatment. I worry about it being permament SE. I take B-complex (as I heard ) this is helpful in treating the neuropathy. 

Frankie