Hello - I’m curious to know if your side effects were more tolerable on IV chemo vs the oral meds. I haven’t been on IV chemo…yet. I’ve read a couple times that some women did better with IV chemo when it came to side effects. I’m on Xeloda right now but thinking it’s my last option before IV.
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well it took about 5 months to figure out that I prefer IV chemo… because it took that long for the bad HFS on xeloda to finally go away… I’m finally just now walking normally with some small amt of HFS… so now IV chemo seems more benign… but the first months I still had to deal with HFS so iv chemo wasn’t easier. But with that gone… it is easy to just take Doxil and have a day when I rest and then the rest of the month I am feeling fine. I do have to battle constipaton just after treatment from zofran pre meds they give me. Meanwhile I feel good between treatment and have joined a livestrong exercise class.
Betty, so glad to hear you are doing well on IV Chemo. I know how active you like to be so I'm sure the HFS was very upsetting. Hope you continue to do well and be able to exercise. Sending you hugs and prayers.
Thank you my golfing friend! I just saw the cardio oncologist… and now have to go have my heart zapped… but he says that it may not be because of the doxil… it’s always something.
I'm so sorry. Hope that will work. I have read several articles that IV chemo can cause heart issues. It is upsetting that meds that are supposed to help us can cause some very unwanted side effects. Please take care of yourself. Sending hugs and prayers.
I'm surprised to find Paclitaxol easier to cope with than Capecitebine (Xeloda I think? Oral chemo anyway). I was advised to take B complex supplement to keep neuropathy at bay and I use a cold cap. So far (second cycle) no hair loss, good energy, no sickness. It just takes so long at the hospital! Good luck with it,
I was on weekly Taxol infusions for 12 weeks, unfortunately they didn't work, and I had progression. Currently on Xeloda. I haven't had any side effects with either, just occasional mild nausea with both, didn't lose my hair on Taxol, it only thinned. I found the weekly infusions disruptive, as I had to go to the hospital 2 days a week, 1 for a blood test, and one for the infusion, and because I had a tendency to pass out with the permeds I started dreading each infusion. I wish all the best you hope all goes well for you.
I was dreading IV chemotherapy but have found it pretty manageable now I am on it ( since November last year). I spent 6 months on Paclitaxel before progression and currently am on Eribulin. I agree with Autumn1 about the time at the hospital and being unable to make plans easily when the treatment is weekly, but it is nowhere as difficult as the FEC chemo I had with my primary in 2005/6. Wishing you the best with your treatments.
Mets to bones, brain, liver, bone marrow. I started with Exemestane then after MBC my onc added Ibrance. That failed after 3 years then moved on to pikray. That was a disaster and moved on to Truqap. More progression so moved to Xeloda.
FYI: My medical onc, and integrative onc both indicated the Xeloda/Capecitabine can indeed be given as an IV, and supposedly side effects are not as bad on IV.....I did oral Cape, and HFS was somewhat of an issue, but not dramatic, thankfully.
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