Anyone stopped chemo before last round?

Yes, but I had no choice. I did 4 A/C, with doable SE. Had first Taxotere of a scheduled 4. Had severe allergic reaction to it, MO stopped chemo. I'm still scared spitless 2 years later about having it stopped

My story is a little different than what you are discussing here, but I was scheduled for 6 rounds of TC. After the 4th round and a PET/CT scan which showed me to be NED, my onc said "an argument could be made for no more chemo" on the day of my 5th chemo. I chose to take #5 as sort of icing on the cake. I did not do #6 and am very comfortable with this decision as I have remained NED since July 3, 2013. I guess my point is the number of treatments is based on experience but everyone is different and responds differently. I know I haven't answered your question, but if you are hesitating to finish to no good reason other than being sick of it all, I would encourage you to have the final round. You will then have the satisfaction of completing your treatment plan.

i felt the exact same b4 my last round. I begged my onc to give me a pass on the last one but he really pleaded with me to finish the course , especially because Herceptin is proven to work better w chemo. I did the last one and had a complete response (pCR) at surgery. Now i may have had a pCR anyway but i if i didnt I would have always thought "what if"

If you are physically able to tolerate it i would finish the full protocol

Good! I am glad. I tell people I know how Russian counter-agents feel when they are being poisoned by the KGB .......but, if chemo does it's job of KILLING the cancer cells....then it is worth feeling like crap for awhile. Hang in there. It will take awhile, but things will be  good again, they really will.

Bippy I did three rounds of FEC without too many problems. Then did my first round of Taxotere and it was brutal. Went in for my second round that the onc reduced by 25%, but still brutal. I really thought it was going to kill me.

The onc decided I couldn't do the last round, and I was soooo happy. But I still worry that skipping that last round will come back to bite me. I don't think that will ever go away.

If your tx isn't completely brutal and putting you in hospital it's very worthwhile finishing if you possibly can. Then you can live the rest of your life without worrying that that last tx would have been the one that made the cancer completely gone.

I only had one round and sometimes wish I hadn't even had that one. I developed diverticulitis and decided that I wasn't willing to gamble with my intestines and the onc agreed and stopped chemo. I have neuropathy and digestion is still off a year later. I am triple neg metaplastic grade 3 so it is aggressive but I feel like I am in better fighting form than I would have been had I continued with chemo. You do what you can live with. I feel like I am going to be on the right side of the odds.

Bippy, what part of Fl are you in? I'm next to Clearwater

Hang in there Bippy625!  I had the same regimen as you (without the Perjeta which was not approved for early stage in 2012) and I know it's a grind.  I can remember being so tired of gearing up for the SE's.  Also my WBC kept tanking, requiring extra shots of neupogen on top of the Neulasta. I do agree about the Emend.  I took it the morning of chemo and for two days afterward and I never had nausea issues.  The worst thing for me was my mouth tasting of burnt garbage.  Some days I felt like I was breathing fire.  No amount of chewing cinnamon gum would alleviate that horrible taste!  However, Her2+ is nothing to fool around with so I pushed through the full 6.  And honestly, treatment #6 ended up being a breeze.  Maybe because I knew that was it, but I felt pretty good afterward and went skiing about ten days after my final treatment.

Herceptin alone was very easy.  I felt a little tired after the infusion and the next day but other than that I was fine. 

I did 4 DD A/C neoadjuvant and had no problems with it.  Did 12 Taxol adjuvant, it left me completely and utterly EXHAUSTED the entire time.  Before #10, Dr told me it was up to me to finish or not as it had done already about 85% of what could do.  I thought about ti and decided that I had to do all as it was only 3 more and had already done 9 so why quit before it was 100% of what it could do.  When Hubby and Son were doing everything that had to be done so all I had to do was fight the IBC Monster, if I didn't finish and had a recurrence/mets, how could I have told them after giving up?

SO WISH WE HAD SW FL TEMPS TODAY! My thermometer says its 4F right now - TV is saying -17F wind chill.. I'm originally from Punta Gorda, Hubby's from Maderia Beach. Lots of pretty white fluffy stuff outside - want some?😒😏

Woooohoooo Congrats!!!!!!

Meeeeeee! My reaction started before I got out of MOs office, but dummy me didn't know it, or say anything. By the time DH took me back in a wheelchair, I was swollen from head to toes. Doc said it was a severe allergic reaction, and stopped further treatment.

I was in a lot of pain, peeled skin top to bottom, even lady parts. Lost finger and toe nails.

Limited research showed me it's the preservative, not Taxotere that causes this. Polysorbate 80.

I've been dancing with NED 2 years now, but still have the fear it could come back. And then what happens?

I'd ask MO if there is another chemo you could do. I'd hate for you to be as miserable as I was.

Best wishes