burning chest pain

Kathy,

first thing that came to my mind is "do you have a mediport?"  if you do, make sure that it is functioning properly. is it on that same side with the pain?  i guess the CT scan might show if there was a problem in that area.  talk to your onc though about that.

Then the other thought i had was that during herceptin i became extremely depressed after my triple doses, i would have headaches as well.  I don't know if the depression was from herceptin messing with me, if it was from cancer in general..it's hard to say with so much going on, but i did FINALLY agree to start an antidepressant and that helped.  Also i changed my infusions to weekly and my headaches were much improved. 

I always heard herceptin was a piece of cake and that always made me feel bad, because i had a difficult time with it.  I did the whole year kicking and screaming because i didn't feel well.  I can't say what it was.. but i know that part of it must have been psychological.  i found that with herceptin i had more time to think about everything that had gone on over the previous months, because i was not nauseated. 

Sorry you feel crappy. I can only say i can relate.  i did have shingles with rads which i did during herceptin so i guess it's possible but i had to take meds for it to resolve!

Good luck hon, let us know how you're doing.

you can pm me anytime.

LittleFlower

Kathy,

I too am having burning pain in my chest on herceptin.  It started with just for a few days after treatment, they did US, scans everything.  I finally went back to my surgeon and she checked my port and it was leaking.  They took it out the next day!  No problems since.  I get my next treatment on Friday without the port.  My onc said I only had 5 more herceptins why put it back in.  It was so nice to get that out of me.  Good Luck I know how hard it is to feel something but no one understands.  They kept telling me to go to the ER they thought I was having a heart attack.

Debi