Herceptin Injection

Hi Sall

Sorry to hear your in a covid ward, hope your results come back clear and you can be discharged. I'm having a covid test tuesday prior to chemo Thursday, not looking forward to it

Take care

Linda x

Hi

No results as yet! 
Hope your test goes ok and you start you chemo x

Luckily all my treatment is complete just on Herceptin injection for the next year!!! But if it keeps cancer away then that’s fine by me xx

Hi

Sorry your in NHS hotel . Like you I've had my op and done chemo . Now on Herceptin had no 6 two weeks ago. Also will get second biannual Bisphosphonate infusion .

I will follow your story with interest because like you I get a list of minor SE ( compared to chemo ) 

they make me paranoid about Covid at times . Dry cough left over from chemo doesn't help . As well as the fatigue & headache  I also get nausea . One thing I haven't had is temp ( reverted to chemo routine and check it daily ) 

Were you shielded I got letter middle of March ...seems a lifetime ago . 

My neice who was working on Covid ward tested positive spent Seven days in isolation at home . Although not ready for f/t work she was fine after seven days just very tired  

hope you get your results soon so you can get on with getting better .

margaret x

Hi Northerner, (Margaret)

Ive been told test was negative but they have been having false negative results so nurse spoke to dr and he asked for a 2nd test so had to have it done again! So another 24 hours of waiting! 

Yes I had shielding letter in March and have literally gone to hospital appointments and straight back home.

Looks like phone call to Oncology consultant when I get home to see where we go from here. Supposed to be having Echo on Thursday but guessing that will have to be rearranged

I’ll keep you up dated xx

Hi

yep that's all I've been doing into hospital and home . I' m waiting for echo appointment should have had it at end of March but I deferred it saying to Onco would rather wait til best practice put In place . So it is due in June along with my mammogram can't believe it been a year .

Hope you keep well 

keep in touch 

Margaret x

Northerner

I’m due mammogram in June too.

Really doesn’t seem 12 months since it all started..... been tough at times but we’ve got to the other side xx

#Staysafe xx

Hi

I'm another on Herceptin after completing all other treatments.  Tuesday will be injection 10 and I've had a range of side effects, all mild thankfully but definitely the worst one is the aches and pains, especially in my legs.  Had the headache, nausea, funny legs at night, sort of restless.

I had my 1st year mammogram at the end of Apr and was glad when it came back as clear.  Funny, after all the stuff I've subjected my body to over the past year it is silly to think that the Cancer stood a chance but still I worried, especially as my remaining boob has been particularly painful for the last few months, apparently curtesy of Herceptin too messing with my hormones being the likely cause.

Tummy aches are another side effect I regularly seem to get, Oh and mid way through each cycle I get a day or two when everything seems to go straight through me very rapidly.

Keep going ladies and stay safe

XOXO

I’m having that problem too with everything going thru me.... 

did you have after every injection? This from what I can remember is the first time I’ve had these symptoms 

Stay Safe xx

Hi

I think it started after the 2nd or 3rd round but have had it ever since, it only lasted for about a day but the unfortunate thing is that I get no warning which would be an issue if I was away from home.  Lucky we're under lockdown isn't it?

XOXO

Looks like I’ve picked up stomach bug on top of chest infection

Had swab results from covid19 test and that was negative

So I can go home tomorrow with oral antibiotics 

Hopefully then I might get a decent nights sleep xx

Stay Safe everyone xx