Taxotere, Carboplatin and Herceptin

Hi there, my TCH sisters. My white blood count is way down and borderline nuetrapenic, but they are still going to give me my 6th and final chemo tomorrow. I will be at high risk, until the nuelasta shot I will get Thurs. will kick in. , so I will stay home for the next 5 days. I am very glad to be getting the final chemo done, I want to move onto radiation, and finish out my year of herceptin, get the port out next summer, and pray for healthy screenings for years to come, as we all do.

zumbagirl - Big Congrats on finishing chemo!!!!

So question for you, this time around they gave me Emend in the infusion today.  When should I start taking the Zofran and Compazine? anyone know?

Grimbol: 2 days after my first chemo, I got a little nauseous.  I took one Zofran and it went quickly away--I loved that little pill! 

I am almost done now--#6 tomorrow (knock wood).  My question is: how long before my taste comes back?  I miss that more than my hair!

Wendyspet - Congrats on finishing CHEMO!!!!

Grimbol -  I only took the compazine if I felt nauseous, that's what my doc said.  I had very little nausea, if it had been worse, I probably would have taken it proactively.  I took it at the first feeling of nausea. 

Yay for zumbagirl too!

Hello, ladies!

Today is my day 4 after chemo. I am sitting and waiting when nausea comes...I took Ativan at 2 a.m., now what? To take ATIVAN OR COMPASIN, OR... NOTHING?

bREST HURTING LIKE CRAZY AFTER FILLING ON mONDAY

cONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE ON FINISHING CHEMO!!!!

wendyspet,

I had my last chemo yesteday, and today my taste is already gone, I totally agree with you, it is more annoying than losing my hair, good luck with your last chemo, and I hope you sail through it with minimal discomfort. My tummy is sensitive this morning, but I just took a nausea pill.

zumbagirl - how are you counts?  and Congrats!

Izzy325 - rads were pretty easy, but time consuming.  I started mine about 3 weeks after my last chemo.  My skin handled it pretty well until the end.  One thing they didn't tell me, until the end, was that your skin continues to get worse for about 3 weeks after your last rad.  My RO prescribed Kenolog for me to use, it worked pretty well, but it was sore.  You probably won't want to wear a bra or anything for a while after you are done.  It seems like everything went so slowly until the rads were done, then it's just flown past. Good luck.  Just be sure to report any thing that you are concerned about to your RO.  They have a lot of tricks in the bag if you do have issues.  Take care.

Ana ... don't think too far ahead ... you will make yourself crazy. Just deal with what you are going through ... tackle one thing at at time. You will survive chemo and then it will be on to the next stage, and you will survive that too and then it will be on to the next one.

I had surgery first and then chemo, and now I have just finished 22 of 35 radiation treatments. Radiation will make your skin look and feel as if you have a sun burn. If you keep moisturizing and moisturizing, you will not get the blistering and pain. You have to start moisturizing before you see any symptoms.

We all fear what we don't know but once you start radiation and once you get through surgery, you will see that you will get through all of them and you will be all the stronger for it. This crappy disease will not defeat us!

Good luck with the rest of the chemo!

EvelynMarie

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My white counts are low, borderline nuetrapenic, but I am hoping the nuelasta will hurry up and pump out some more white cells from my bones .

My white counts seemed to be fine on nuelasta but when I broke out with that rash this August my primary care MD had me get a blood test. He said my whites were a little low… maybe that's why I got a nasty cold 4 days after the blood draw. I usually don't get colds unless I'm run down.

EvelynMarie,

You are right. But like Birds, it seems like the people who have negative experiences with rads are the ones who tell their stories. It is good to know it doesn't have to be that way.  

Birds, I am glad to hear you did well with rads also. I am hoping I will too.  

My next decision is on surgery and if I had to make a decision now,  I don't know that I would be able to.  Being HER2+, I am afraid of recurrence, but then I could get cancer in other places. I meet with the BS in a couple of weeks after an MRI and she will outline my options.  She told me a lumpectomy would give me the same odds as a mastectomy, and my tumor is gone now, but I still wonder if that will be the best option in the long run. I had micro calcifications in my other breast a few years ago and I am think those are pre-cancerous. They went away, but I still wonder if I should consider a bilateral.  At this point in my life, I don't think my breasts are that important to me, but when it comes to making a decision, I am just not sure. 

I guess for now I should just concentrate on my next chemo.  I caught a pretty bad cold from my students and I am totally wiped out.  I will have my blood checked on Monday before my treatment on Thursday. I am hoping it will be okay.  The transfusion helped me feel better, but I wonder if it is all okay.