Hi
I’m due to start 18 x weekly Taxol next week & would appreciate hearing about others experiences - side effects, how you feel during the week etc
Feeling very anxious as still suffering from side effects of WBR.
Ingrid
Hi Ingrid, sorry that you have to have chemo, I had taxol for 6 months from jan to July this year, had recurrance in breast and small lung met. I managed it fairly well ,it was not pleasant but doable. They also gave me anti histamine which made me feel woozy so they diluted it and gave it slowly seemed to do the trick. I have diarrhoea occasionally seemed to come on a couple of days after treatment but only mild. Had sore mouth , had to eat soft diet and use mouth was, difflam very good as it numbed the mouth, lost my hair after about 6 weeks not completely had some wispy bits but it started growing before the end of the course. Worst side effect was nails lifting off the nail bed fingers were worst and quite sore. This all sounds bad but I did not have nausea, also felt tired some aching of bones, but the side effects did not last long just seemed to experience most of them at some point. Looking back it was doable and shrunk my lung mets well, not so good on breast recurrance just had bilateral mastectomy but it was my choice, just wanted the lump out of me.
Hope it all goes to plan
Sarah x
Hi Mildred I start docetaxol today ( is that taxol?), I am also interested to see how others get on too. I am having 6 x 3 weekly so it may be different.
Suzanne. Ps good luck xxx
This link is to an old thread about Taxol (Paclitaxel). You may find it helpful to read about the possible SEs and how to manage them. Good luck with your treatment. I hope it’ll be gentle on you and tough on that cancer.
I started Taxotere in October and I am due my third treatment on thursday of this week. I have an upset tummy a couple of times after the first treatment and shocking pains in my legs for a couple of days the second time. My first scan is due on the 5 th Dec and fingers crossed it os working. I discovered I had Mets in my liver lungs and bones in September and I think I’m getting a bit depressed about it all now xx
Hello ladies,
I’ve been diagnosed with liver mets and started 18 weekly doses of Taxol (Paclitaxol), the first one was last Monday 18th November. I’ve lost my sense of taste, have the odd mouth ulcer and aches and pains as well as a woozy head. It’s not as bad as when I had to have Docetaxol at 3 weekly intervals a couple of years ago so the lower dose seems to be a bit more bearable.
It all seems very unreal to me, restarting treatment. Mentally I am feeling very low and on Friday I had a visit from the Palliative nurse who has suggested taking something to make me ‘feel better’ - I feel as though they aren’t letting me acknowledge the shock of this new diagnosis and that having the odd blub is something I ought to keep on top of. Anyone else had that experience?