Avastin for BC (Taxol & AC, too)
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Wow, it sounds like you have been througth the wringer! I am on Taxol and Herceptin...they have been successful and very few side effects...I do not know about Avastin. The chemo nurses at the center i go to suggested a wbsite to go to to read about drugs and their effects, but I did not write it down, so of course I have no idea what it is now. I have confusion and memory problems too....carry a notebook, or get an electronic one and USE IT ALL THE TIME. Chemomeds.com maybe??? You might ask the oncologist or his nurses if they know. Maybe 6 weeks is not long enough for the effects to wear off???0
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Hey dearheart...so you are a semi-colon, too...just like me...we got the 2-fer...colon followed by breast...lucky we are, huh?
Post this Avastin question over on the colorectal board...you will get many responses. We have a number of stage 4 warriors that can share, I'm sure.
MY trick was water, water, water....flushed everything out....2 quarts the day before, day of, and day after infusion.
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Hi Coehler, I have taken taxol also, it damaged my FEET big time, did it yours? The nerve ends are damaged, numb, tingling, sore, burning, hard to walk at all, did the Taxol do that to yours?
I didn't take that other drug but did the AC as well. Dr told me Taxol gets the "hidden cells" so I had no choice she said......now I can't walk right due to the pain. Would love to hear from you.
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I had the foot damage from theSkybuf said:Hi Coehler, I have taken taxol also, it damaged my FEET big time, did it yours? The nerve ends are damaged, numb, tingling, sore, burning, hard to walk at all, did the Taxol do that to yours?
I didn't take that other drug but did the AC as well. Dr told me Taxol gets the "hidden cells" so I had no choice she said......now I can't walk right due to the pain. Would love to hear from you.
God bless you on your journey
A/C. and leg pains from Tax where I took vicodin on and off.
I haven't taken Avastin but plan to if i have a recurrance (I've also had colon and I have mulitple lung nodules) - so I figure it will be a "three for 1" for me. Don't let the oncologist treat you like you're crazy. The big Avasin study for breast was only completed a few years ago, so they only have a few years of real world data on side affects and you could be having side effects that didn't come up in the trial. You can ask him to file a report to the company (Genentech) and let them know of your side effects to help others down the road...0
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