Docetaxel side effects - how long do they last?

Hi ian16527 

I am sorry your wife is having a hard time on docetaxol. She should have been given a 24 hour oncology hotline number. If her symptoms are continuing, I suggest she gives them a call. They are very good at supporting issues with chemo. You are correct that both the cancer and filgrastim can cause pain of this type. Assuming she is on a 3-weekly treatment cycle, things are usually more settled in the second half of the cycle. 

My oncologist said it was the combination iof the two. Id certainly had filgastrim before without problems and the pains stopped when i reached the end of my 5 jabs each cycle. I took paracetamol over that period. I was on a two week cycle so it wasn’t much of a break. She said I wouldn’t have needed the filgastrim if we had chosen the weekly option and I could still change. As it happened I ended up with periphheral neuropathy anyway and I had the last taxol cancelled anyway

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Pain seems to have abated after a week today. She is at the cancer unit tommorow

She wasnt given an option for cycle length, just 3 weekly She wont stand this regime I am afraid so we will see what they say on Wednesdays tel call

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Ask about the weekly - itsmilder but as effective. May not be right for everone, though.