Rashes and Other Skin Issues From Chemo

perjeta can cause acne, rash, whatever you want to call it. You can wait until you see your onc. This shouldn't be enough to have to reduce the dose. Also, side effects can be cumulative. So, after your next dose, you may have side effects that you didn't have with earlier rounds and that is normal.

Hopefully, it will get rid of your liver mets. I have been Ned for 8 years after T & hfor my liver mets.

Good luck!

Herceptin and Perjeta both can cause a rash on the face and upper body. Mine was very mild on my forehead, just a few spots that didn't itch, and it stopped occurring after a few months on H&P. I still get intense itching on my upper arms that drives me nuts,especially when I'm trying to sleep. There's no visible rash on my arms, but many women here have problems with upper arm itching while on H&P so it definitely seems related.Topical benadryl helps with the itching.

I figure that as far as SEs go, as long as it's just a mild rash it's a small price to pay for the benefit of H&P. If your rash is really bad, some women drop Perjeta and only do Herceptin. You could always try that and see if it's the one causing the rash, but there's strong likelihood that Herceptin is causing it. If it's mild, try waiting it out and you might stop having that reaction like I did.

It's a common reaction Elderberry and definitely not hives - although if you think it looks like measles, with the current epidemic in the US you would want to get it checked if it starts spreading over your body and you've been in contact with anyone who has traveled here. Anytime I've had hives in the past it's been large raised areas (quarter size and larger) and incredibly itchy, like super-sized mosquito bites. Yours sounds like the typical rash from HER2-targeted drugs, mine was just small red dots too but sometimes it looks like acne, and the forehead is one of common locations for it. If it's not itching and causing you distress, I wouldn't worry unless it covers a large area of your body or itches enough to drive you crazy. It might clear up in a few days, and then show up again after your next infusion.

You'll probably get a drippy nose that never stops too. Take out stock in Kleenex now haha!

Elderberry, I had a bad breakout this time last year and get them on my belly after almost every infusion but it’s tolerable. The skin and melanoma group at my cancer center confirmed it just SE’s, likely from Perjeta. I was also told that this can be a sign of treatment working well on the epidermal part of HER2.

Elderberry,

Are they little red dots? Like this: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320597.p...

The images show advanced presentation. I get them when my platelets are low.

Take care,

Jennifer