Hi Ladies!
I am a February 2013 member (February Valentines) and am popping in to wish each and everyone of you the very best of luck on your chemo journey.
May I make a suggestion? Once you begin your chemo and post on here about your side effects, or ask questions etc. it is very useful if you include at the top of your post what your regime is, and which cycle you are on, because each regime has different side effects and each cycle is different from the next. For example, mine would have been:
TCH cycle 3
This really helps the others that are on the same regime, and might cause less stress to those on different regimes who may not suffer the same problems.
To answer Mariecay's question about sickness. Not all chemo drugs will make you sick. FEC probably will. Tax doesn't normally. The part of the brain that makes you sick with these drugs is the same part that makes women sick during pregnancy, so those two things are related, and you may find your oncologist will ask you if you suffered from morning sickness. Mine did.
I was never once sick nor was I ever nauseous. I was given a box of anti-sickness tablets after my first chemo but never needed to open them. In fact the box is still in my cupboard somewhere! I was on Tax and Carboplatin with Herceptin.
Good luck ladies. It will soon be over and time will fly, I promise you. xxxxxx
