Is there anyone else out there who has had or is having
4 x 3 weekly AC (Adriamycin (Doxorubicin) & Cyclophosphamide)
followed by
12 x weekly Paclitaxel (Taxol) with Herceptin
Most people seem to be having FEC or FEC-T, and this is different so I thought it might be helpful to have a separate thread as its hard to find info specifically for this regime and know how anyone else is getting on with it or how they found it when they had it.
just to give you a bit of hope my aches on my first paclitaxel were horrible but they eased off and were nowhere near as bad on the 2nd one and they have been even less since then.
I dont know if you have started herceptin? That can make you a little achey too but again its less so for me as time has gone on
I had 3x3 e/c followed by what should have bee 3x3 tax I had 2sessins tax which made me very ill ended up in hospital so last dose given as weekly paxel x4 which I tolerated well it’s a lot easier on body Den x
Thank you for all your replies. It is really good to hear that others have had the same chemo treatment and managed ok.
I take my hat off to those of you cold capping through 12 weekly paclitaxols! Amazing! Not an easy thing to do at all.
I cold capped through AC and have a large bald patch on top and thinning old lady hair around the sides. I’ve probably lost over 50% of my hair and can’t go anywhere without a hat, scarf or wig. I was at the point of thinking I might as well just shave it all off, as it looks awful, but went to a specialist hairdresser to cut my wig to shape around my face. She advised me to persevere with the cold cap as she said it would take months to get back the hair covering that I have still got. She said it would be easier for the new hair to fill in the gaps than start from scratch and that I would have more normal looking hair quicker if I stuck with the cold cap.
I’m glad I got some advise and am persevering with the cold cap, despite having to wear wigs etc. anyway.
Hope that might be useful to others debating or wavering on whether to continue cold capping.
Hi, I finished my treatment on 10th April last year (can’t believe how quickly that year has gone!).
I had 3x3 weekly fec then 12x weekly paclitaxol and I cold capped the whole way through. My hair thinned dramatically after first fec but then started to grow back. I lost probably 50% pretty evenly throughout and when I finished chemo I had an inch or 2 of new growth giving me some nice natural layers.
It’s tough, but worth persevering. I found taxol much easier than fec, there was cumulative fatigue but no nausea or nail problems that some ladies report. You do feel like you’re never off the chemo treadmill with weekly blood tests and treatment, but you can tick the dates off on your calendar pretty quickly.