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  • Forum Post: ghastly chemo injury

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    I had an extravasation injury (leak into my arm) on my last session of Taxotere. This was around 6 weeks ago and I am still suffering from horrible swelling and pain. My whole arm and hand blew up due to the effect of the chemical burn and I was in such excruciating agony to begin with I had to be on...

  • Forum Post: Taxotere pain

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    My poor mum is suffering terrible pain throughout, it's about 4 days after her first Taxotere dose and this is the worst she has been so far through all the chemo. I can tell it's just taken it out of her completely. It's the first time that I felt my phone calls don't help - she's...

  • Blog Post: Life is a rollercoaster ...

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    You know ... I used to say “ if only I could have a pound for every compliment I receive for them red shoes.” However, over the last few weeks it would be for each time someone has said to me “Go sh ... doesn't time fly ... where did that year go ...? ” These comments have...

  • Blog Post: Chemo wobble and into hospital

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    It has taken me a while to get back online as I have not been feeling great. Had a central line put in on the same day as my first chemo (3rd Dec) - made the mistake of saying I should be alright without the sedative. If anyone else has this option - take the sedative! I think I must just be a big baby...

  • Blog Post: Chemo plan sorted

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    Thanks to eveyone for their help to date. Good to hear from Lea as this is the chemo I will probably have. Saw the oncologist last week who said I will probably have 3 x Taxotere and then 3 x FEC. (Unless they think I have shouldn't have any more Epirubucin as I had this back in 2004, then I will...

  • Forum Post: Hair Loss from Taxotere - Help?! Lots of detail required!

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    Hi all, I have recently begun 4 rounds of Taxotere and Cyclophosphamide. My hair began to fall out as reliably predicted on Day 14 and very quickly almost all fell out until I got sick of it and shaved it all off. It was heartbreaking as I had beautiful hair ( I know that sounds so vain but to be...

  • Blog Post: Simply red ...

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    My mother died 14 years ago, aged 53, of ovarian cancer. She had been diagnosed five years before ... but to be truthful the cancer had probably been there since her early forties, when she was a similar age to me. For a year or two they had said she was peri-menopausal and by the time they realised...

  • Forum Post: Re: Genetics - BRCA 1 positive

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    Hi Sarah, I don't often post here but your messages prompted me to do so as I am an in a very similar situation to you. Dealing with a diagnosis of breast cancer is difficult enough when it impacts on so many areas in life. When it happens at our age, we have no kids but do want them; cancer has...

  • Blog Post: You are one in a million ...

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    Well, actually I am not one in a million ... I am one in 28 million. What I am not sure about is whether that makes me more or less special ....? Last weekend saw the end of the Tour de France. Yes, I know what you are saying. “ Tour de France?! What is she on? " That it is up there with my...

  • Forum Post: Docetaxel rash on hands

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    Hi All My best friend had her second cycle of docetaxel last Wednesday. She was supposed to have 4 FEC and then 4 Docetaxel but the Fec wasn't working after 2 cycles so they moved her straight on to Docetaxel. About 2 weeks after her first Docetaxel, the skin started peeling off of her hands...

  • Forum Post: Re: docetaxel side effects

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    My wife is on the TAC regime for breast cancer - docetaxel (Taxotere) , doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and cyclophosphamide. She has had 3 of 6. The first was quite rough. It took all her blood counts down (not just white and neutrophils) and she then got an infection which meant she had to be admitted for...

  • Forum Post: Breast cancer, HER2 (3+), ER and PR negative- advice please

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    Posted over 3 years ago
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