Here we go again

[Tenacious66]

In June 2019, I was diagnosed with stage 4 OC. And, on Tuesday, 8/25, I will start my third line of treatment. Will be taking weekly taxol and Avastin. I’m told it’s pretty tolerable, which I’m all about. Any advise for what I can expect to feel with respect to side effects?

Unfortunately, I didn’t make it past the 6 month marker without new growth while on my first line of defense, which makes me platinum resistant.

My 2nd line was on Doxil. Did okay on it, saw good regression, but at 7 month marker we started to see new growth. The Doxil also gave me horrible mouth sores. Soooo painful. Was pretty nauseous for 3 to 5 days post-infusions too. So they decided, based on the mouth sores and the new growth, to move onto a 3rd line. (Sorry, I never know if I’m using the correct verbiage when describing my OC).

Thank you in advance for your responses!

Carol

[delia2]

Hi Carol. I haven’t (yet) had weekly taxol with Avastin as have only had one recurrence and am on Olaparib. Others on here have found this combination tolerable and effective though I guess you will probably lose your hair again which is a drag. I really hope it does a job on the beast! Let us know. Xx

[Tenacious66 in reply to delia2]

Thanks for the reply delia2! I’m not looking forward to the hair loss, but I don’t think it will be as traumatizing as the first line of defense. Much love! Carol

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Hi Carol,

You’ve been through a lot. I haven’t been on weekly Taxol. I have been on Avastin twice. Once for a full year and later for 6 months. The side effects I had were: nose bleeds, some abdominal pain and my white blood cell count was a little low. So be careful to not to mix with many people because of Covid-19.

Be kind to yourself and make everything as easy for yourself as possible.

Good luck with it.

Anne 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗