Herceptin Side effect - weight gain?

UKKate: good to see u caught it at Stage1 and so tiny!!  I think the digital mammos are finding that small where the other didn't.  Now that I see u never had to take the hard drugs (I was Stage2), now its even more solid info that its the Herceptin.  Sometimes when I get overly bloated, dr said it was ok for me to take a probiotic.  That seems to help.  Man, the other night my belly looked 5mths prego.  I guess Im going to deliver a water and gas baby!! LOL  Not to mention my little side blubber.  I was an ex model, so I have to keep telling myself ...this too shall pass.

UKKate: u look good in ur pic, so ur doing something right!!  I guess we have to keep reminding ourselves all this fat/blubber is somehow part of making us better.  Probiotic helps a little, but not much.  I have never been this big my entire life.  And, Im not eating more.

To all: how much do u think is blubber vs. bloat?? 

Im hoping when Im off this stuff, say 5 lbs is bloat and I only have to work off the 15.  I try now, but its v hard b/c it makes u tired first few days.

Hi Reikihobo: I have not been around the boards lately, but today, for some reason, I logged in and saw your entry.  Interestingly, I am in a similar situation as you are. My belly size after Herceptin has doubled. And it has been 2 years since my last Herceptin infusion.

I am physically active and eat a healthy diet,  so naturally, my doctors are puzzled as to why I am still a size 14/16 and not back to "normal" size of 8. (but my doctors are also wondering whatever happened to my hair as that did not come back after my chemos, but that is a different issue altogether) Anyway, my liver enzyme (ALT) has been slowly climbing and in October, it actually and suddenly had jumped from 51 to 88 within a week period of time. (we only now , last week, re-did the lab work to be sure). I am also due for an abdominal CT next week that I am dreading, though, my onc thinks it is not necessarily the liver I am having slight pain in, but I might have a stone in my gallbladder .

She is also testing me for high iron levels that may also prevent proper metabolism as my glucose and cholesterol are also a bit high and has been since Herceptin. How do you use the Epsom salts? Are you doing the liver flush? And if so, how do you feel afterwards? I am asking this because I was thinking about doing it, too.

just found this thread and thought, I seem to be gaining weight! Thought I was imagining it, but now I seem to have an answer, yes thank you, cause I thought I was nuts. Gaining a stomach on chemo therapy.... And yes, whatever I am taking, is having a horrible effect on my bowels. Cramps, diarrhea, constipation, blow outs. Wow what a gam met? Anyone else want to comment.

having this appetite does not help, sorry about you who are nautious but I am still gaining weight. Maybe the herceptin panel can tell us more.