Next chemo Taxol - can't wait for it to be all over!
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What were you on previously?
What were you on previously? From what I've heard, Taxol is easier than the A/C combo. I was on Taxotere, which is similar, and found it much more tolerable.
I know Carrie on here just switched from AC to Taxol & is finding it much easier, hopefully she will read your post & chime in her experience.
*hugs*
Heather0 -
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I have just completed round three number two of taxol. I've had no side effects other than mild fatigue. Are you going weekly or every three weeks? I go weekly and my dose is not a potent but I go for a longer period of time. Every fourth week is no chemotherapy just herceptin . I have heard from others that taxol is the easier of all the chemotherapy drugs. Good luck to you and I hope your experience is as easy as mine had been.0 -
Taxolkjrpcb said:Taxol
I have just completed round three number two of taxol. I've had no side effects other than mild fatigue. Are you going weekly or every three weeks? I go weekly and my dose is not a potent but I go for a longer period of time. Every fourth week is no chemotherapy just herceptin . I have heard from others that taxol is the easier of all the chemotherapy drugs. Good luck to you and I hope your experience is as easy as mine had been.
I just finished the A/C combo and going every other week which will continue with Taxol. I am sure hoping it gets easier. I feel like my quality of life has dropped so much and sure was not expecting that. Trying to stay positive! Thanks so much!0 -
I had taxol and it is easierViv2010 said:Taxol
I just finished the A/C combo and going every other week which will continue with Taxol. I am sure hoping it gets easier. I feel like my quality of life has dropped so much and sure was not expecting that. Trying to stay positive! Thanks so much!
I had taxol and it is easier than AC. no neulasta shot or its side effects. not as harsh. good luck! I did get neuropathy so you may ask about taking B6 vitamin. )0 -
Received my first Taxol last Thurs and 48 hrs later started with muscle and bone pain...by Mon night had to take pain RX. Took the second one yesterday and now just waiting to see if it will kick in tomorrow. Most say it is a hit or miss when it comes to the side effects. I did have to have a 4 week break after my last A/C due to neuropathy so I'm praying this won't start up again during the Taxol. Good luck and let us all take it one day at a time!carkris said:I had taxol and it is easier
I had taxol and it is easier than AC. no neulasta shot or its side effects. not as harsh. good luck! I did get neuropathy so you may ask about taking B6 vitamin. )0 -
Taxol
I had one so far,I got itchy skin all over so thats all. I have three more to go thru0 -
I've had both ... Taxol is medically less invasive on yourcanjuncutie said:Taxol
I had one so far,I got itchy skin all over so thats all. I have three more to go thru
body .. some of us Chemo Queens (myself) did tolerate chemo very well at all. I did lose 3 toe nails .. while on Taxol - just a noted and know side effort.
Best of Luck and let us know how it is going!
Strength and Courage
Vicki Sam0 -
We're all diffferent -
and there is no way of knowing how the different chemos will effect you.
For me, the 4 A/C wasn't that bad at all - I was tired 2 days (started 2 days after infusion) out of the 2 weeks but resting would help with it. Th only 'issue' I had with Neulasta was that, almost to the minute, 2 hours after the shot I went to sleep for 2 hours - no pain no nothing other than the 2 hr sleep. Taxol, though, was BAD! I had 12 weekly doses of it and it was BAD the first time but only got worse with each one. Trying to rest did no good at all and could not sleep (without Ambien). 5 days a wwk all I could do was lay on the couch the other 2 day (roughly noon on the day before the next infusion til roughly noon the day after) weren't quite as bad but still MUCH worse than the worst of A/C was at all.
We're all so different!
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I don't know Viv, but, amViv2010 said:Taxol
I just finished the A/C combo and going every other week which will continue with Taxol. I am sure hoping it gets easier. I feel like my quality of life has dropped so much and sure was not expecting that. Trying to stay positive! Thanks so much!
I don't know Viv, but, am praying and hoping that it will be easier for you.
Hugs, Leeza0 -
Taxoljbuff said:Received my first Taxol last Thurs and 48 hrs later started with muscle and bone pain...by Mon night had to take pain RX. Took the second one yesterday and now just waiting to see if it will kick in tomorrow. Most say it is a hit or miss when it comes to the side effects. I did have to have a 4 week break after my last A/C due to neuropathy so I'm praying this won't start up again during the Taxol. Good luck and let us all take it one day at a time!
For initial diagnosis of IDC in 2006, chemo-wise, I was on Adriamycin and Cytoxan (AC), and EMEND for nausea (wonderful stuff!!). This time (regional recurrence), I'm on Taxol and Herceptin. The first one of six treatments (every three weeks) was last Friday (11/19/10). Saturday morning I started experiencing lower pelvic pain, which quickly morphed into horrible aching and shooting pains into my lower back, legs, and feet. I was wondering, is this the bone pain or the neuropathy I was told might happen? Per my oncologists' nurse, it was bone/joint pain and she said it would last a few days. Good Lord, it was awful, but as she said, it started diminishing on Wednesday, and today I am feeling ok. I had some Percocet on hand, which didn't help, so I will definitely ask for something stronger for the next go-round!
Also, my onc told me I probably won't have any nausea with Taxol, but he wrote me a script for Compazine anyway . . . just in case. Well, thank God he did, because I was a barffin' fool there for a few days!0 -
taxolViv2010 said:Taxol
I just finished the A/C combo and going every other week which will continue with Taxol. I am sure hoping it gets easier. I feel like my quality of life has dropped so much and sure was not expecting that. Trying to stay positive! Thanks so much!
Hi Viv2010, I think you are on the same cocktail I was. Not to be discourging but taxol was even hard for me than the ac and the ac was tough. Try not to get too down with it all right now, remember, you are right in the midddle of one of the hardest part of bc treatment. Just try a line up some help...try and stay positive and keep drinkin gallons of water. Hugs....alison0
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