Docetaxel - success stories?

Hi Sussex20, after my first chemo cycle I did start to experience constipation but taking Fybogel in the morning and evening completely resolved that. Good luck with the next cycles. 

Been posting in the thread called Docetaxel, ask if there’s anything else you’d like to know. So far not as bad as it sounded !

• RoyRoy 15 minutes ago in reply to RoyRoy

  Docetaxel cycle 2, generally tolerable, main issue is fatigue which was huge days 6-7, then eased off. My hair is falling out and I got oral thrush, but I can put up with these.  
  hoping the allegedly accumulative side effects don’t worsen too much.

  now I know to clear the diary for days 5-8 as that’s when fatigue is bad for me, but then it lifts, day 10 now and feeling a great deal better.

  I tend to wake early, probably due to the steroids,

  lower back pain day 5-8 probably due to the lonquez injection, paracetamol helps it.

  hope this is useful for anyone else going through it

Hi Sussex.

I've been offered enzalutamide daily tablets (until stops working) or doxetaxel chemo drip 6 session, with 3 week gaps.

I I'm 49 and fit n sort of healthy(incurable)

I'm leaning towards enzalutamide first as I want least amount of impact to my children(they going to be starting GCSEs year in September.....)

Glhow long did your enzalutamide treatment last or work for???

I think you've made the right decision. Enzalutamide is easy to live with compared to chemo. Mine worked well for 7 months and indeed the scans have shown good regression of the cancer. Unfortunately my PSA started to rise sharply again in April and chemo has become the only choice. Being younger you may well find that Enzalutamide works for you for much longer.      

I had enzalutamide first, it worked for 6 months, well tolerated. Then I had olaparib as I have a BRCA gene, which worked for 12 months. Now on Docetaxel . The evidence doesn’t give any clear steer on which order to choose, discuss with your team the benefits of trying enzalutamide first.