Hi all, please help. I have just finished my 13th herceptin and have being taking letrozole since June this year. I know joint pain is a side effect from these but the past few weeks have been nearly unbearable I am also suffering from sharp shooting pains to the nerve end where I had my mx. Saw my oncologist on Tuesday and she told me to double my gabapentin for the nerve pain but this is making me really sleepy and I am now having that ‘drugged’ feeling which is also unacceptable as I am going back to work in 2 weeks. I am taking tramadol, ibuprofen and paracetemol for the joint pain but I know I am taking far too many tablets. Has anyone else suffered pains like this and is there any alternative or a more effective pain killer. I am so fed up with this I was dx just over a year ago and thought I would be finished with all the pain etc. after chemo and rads and surgery.
I am also taking citalopran for depression and ramipril for my damaged heart (from herceptin).
Ive just had No 14 and I too have been suffering with joint pain especially for the week after the latest dose but just take ibuprofen and paracetamol and try and get on with it, I too feel tired.I too have the sharp shooting pains where i had my mx but didn’t realise that there was something that could help with it besides what my surgeon had said about doing them when I have my reconstruction.
It feels like never-ending and am getting a bit fed up with it all. I’m on Tamoxifen and am taking pills for the SE of that. I now have been diagnosed with high blood pressure which am taking more pills for I now feel as though I rattle when I walk… I’m hoping that the BP is just a blip and will be ok once finishing the Herceptin.As like you im on anti-depressants too but feel as though I have good days and not so good days rather than bad days.
I hope it is of some comfort to you that you are not alone feeling like you do…and im fourty-something too.
Hi Sally thanks for your reply it does give me some comfort to hear that I am not alone but sorry that you are suffering too. I suppose ‘just grin and bear it’ applies, I am sure it will all end eventually.