A trip with triple negative breast cancer

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  • Musings on diet and chemo

    Coddfish
    One of the horrible aspects of EC chemo is that it temporarily affects your taste buds so that many types of food taste flat, or just not quite right. I have found each cycle a little worse from this perspective - a day or two longer, more foods affe...

  • EC Round 4

    Coddfish
    Feeling delighted to have entered the halfway stage. Once I have processed this one, it will be 12 weeks of Paclitaxel. Also delighted that round 3 improved enormously after my last post. Once I had resolved the constipation, the rest of the cycle pa...

  • EC Round 3 - the doldrums

    Coddfish
    When I first started chemo, a doctor described it as standing at the top of the stairs and being knocked down. Each time you climb back up, only to be knocked down again. But each time it’s a bit harder and you don’t get quite so far up t...

  • EC Round 3 - making progress

    Coddfish
    I wrote a little too soon about the side effects at the end of round 2. Whilst it’s true I was generally well during the final week or so, I woke up most mornings with abdominal pain and wind that sometimes led to bowel urgency. I also never qu...

  • EC Round 2 - return to normality

    Coddfish
    It’s hard to judge whether the second round of EC was easier or harder than the first. On the plus side, I was aware of which side effects would kick in and when, so could both adjust my life around them, and take appropriate medications. The a...
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