Has anyone taken Docetaxel

[dieneke]

Hello Lovely ladies

Thanks for all your advice on cysts, surgeries and weekly paclitaxel. I am still in the middle of it what looks like a right old mess. Second opinion is very hard as to an outsider my case is impossible- 'old age pensioner' (just had my 69 birthday), 2 chemos and heart condition. So the last one I had to explain a lot as it was too much for the GP with whom I only had 5 min tel consultation. So my GP passed the reply on to me and I contacted the surgeon direct. I did get some advise on cysts via email. However I do think that in my case probably I need to go for private consultation and then hope to go for NHS again.

Meanwhile, my cyst seems to be shrinking - good news as I am due to see my hospital surgeon on Wednesday to talk about surgery.

I found out that the weekly paclitaxel that the hospital suggested is no good for me as I am neutropenic - low white blood cells, so I would need to inject after a blood test and then at least wait a couple of days again - there won't be enough days in the week...

I actually found potentially another chemo that for me is very interesting but I don't know anything about it. Has anyone taken docetaxel? And what where the effects? And do you take it on its own or with something else? It seems that a clinical trial was done in vitro with docetaxel and curcumin which showed that the tumor was shrinking more with curcumin added. And as I am taking curcumin to control my multiple myeloma, that might work to get my ca125 down - although it is not that high 37.

Thanks everone as always

Best

Dieneke

[Yoshbosh]

Hi Dieneke,

I had carboplatin and docetaxel as my first line treatment because I was allergic to paclitaxel. Docetaxel is in the same family of drugs (“taxanes”) so its side effects are basically the same as paclitaxel.

Worth discussing with your team, but they are very similar drugs.

Vicki x

[dieneke in reply to Yoshbosh]

Thanks Vicki

that is good to know.

Will discuss it next week.

Best

Dieneke

[chasse10]

I have carboplatin and docetaxel as my second line treatment. From what I have read, everyone deals with it differently. I don't feel real well for about 7 days after each treatment which is once every 28 days. I'm 69 and I've had 4 treatments of it so far. I am very tired.