Low er (trip neg) brca1 carriers

PS If you had a high grade tumor, and it was not in lymph nodes, they would want to take it out. I had lymph involvement in 1-3 nodes at diagnosis, so it was 'out of the building' already and so we went to chemo first.

I was BRCA tested but it was negative. But my MO thought Carbo/Taxotere would be the best for me anyhow. It was very effective. I had chemo first as thre was definitely cancer in one lymph node already, upon diagnosis.

Not nearly as bad as I was worried it would be... I did a "fasting mimicking diet" prior to each chemo (I have posted lots of info, if you search this site for those terms) and it helped my SEs a lot. You can look up specifics of what I did on the TN forum under Member's success stories thread. I did a huge amount of complimentary things which I believe may have helped me and certainly did not hurt me.

My main SEs were constipation right after chemo, mental fogginess, food aversions (I was "hangry," but nothing seemed appealing), and fatigue. That began about day 3 or 4 and would lift by about day 6-7... it took a bit longer for me to bounce back as I had more and more chemos, but I did bounce back to feeling quite normal until the end, when my anemia was pretty bad.

The chemo-specific SEs were roughly the same all 6 times. Never had bad nausea, just queasiness. Food tasted weird and wasn't appetizing, though I was hungry. I took a lot of supplements and I iced.... I think these practices protected me from the neuropathy, fingernail issues, and mouth sores, thought I might have just been lucky. I did interval training throughout on the recommendation of an integrative MO I consulted.

You can do this!!-- and you can get rid of TNBC! That's the silver lining. After 3-5 years clear there is practically zero recurrence. So be aggressive!

well even though my chemo was first the necrosis was obvious in the biopsy.