Anyone had allergic/severe reaction to Taxotere?

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thanks Fiona. I’m having second Tax on Monday so will see Onc then - I’ll post too when I find out anything.
Elinda x

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hi all day 13 now nearly back to normal apart from taste buds wish i cld taste my food any one else that can taste theres yet glad all pains have gone for now thanks for the tips hope everyone else is getting better tc laura xx

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Hi there

Had second taxotere yesterday. Oncologist reduced the dose by 25% as I’d had the severe reaction with so much pain, neutropenic sepsis and skin reactions and got GCSF too. He says he’ll see how I do on this. I didn’t dip last time until about day 3 or 4 so I’m keeping fingers crossed this time.

The Onc looked at my perineum and said he hadn’t seen that reaction before but that was one of the reasons he reduced the dose. He said I was doing the right thing using the pile cream (found this better in the long term that the lanacane). Sister on the chemo unit suggested I try an antihistamine to help with the itching.

Last night when I got back the itching around perineum was absoluately horrendous and I took an antihistamine which really helped - she recommended piriton which can make you sleepy but not a bad thing to take at night. So others having same problem may well be worth asking your Onc about this too.

Good luck to all!

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Hi belinda , By Palmar plantar do you mean pins and needles in hands and feet.? Have just had my fourth tax. and numbness is getting. worse . the cream sounds good anyway!/ Hope you are all doing o.k
regards

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hi all my itching as settled a bit but will mention when im due next tx which is 7 sept i got a wk delay as my boys 21st and didnt want to miss that onc wernt happy but a my choice any info i get will post on here hope u are all well tc laura x

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Sorry took so long to post, lost this thread for a while! Spoke to onc who suggested antihistamine but strangely I have not had any reaction on my perineum!

My hand is still mostly numb not had any assurances that this will recover.

Hope you are all coping OK

Fiona

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thanks Fiona. I took an antihistamine for first 8 days following chemo and it worked. I had the most horrendous itching on perineum on the day of chemo and antihistamine stopped it straight away. The whole area is very puffy and quite sore though still and I’ve been using the pile cream for that which eases things.
Glad to hear that you didn’t get that reaction this time though. Sorry to hear about your hand and I certainly hope it does recover. I suppose you won’t know until a while after your taxotere has finished. Did you get a reduced dose this time?

My consultant hadn’t heard of this reaction - had yours? I was able to say to him that a couple of other women on this forum had. The nurses were really interested as they hadn’t heard of it but were keen to know about it in case they had other women come in with the same problem.

take care
Elinda x