Weekly Taxol Side Effects
Because statistically I am in the minority as a young person with breast cancer, I feel I may have had different reactions than say, someone in their 60’s. I wanted to put out there how I handled things as an active, fit, 31-year old woman.
When beginning Taxol, I’d find myself googling Taxol side effects. There are threads out there on breastcancer.org, for instance. But there are several, and you have to navigate posts from 2008 on. If you skip to the last page, you're left with half-conversations and more confused people jumping on the "please tell me what will happen to me!" train. Not wholly helpful.
When beginning Taxol, I’d find myself googling Taxol side effects. There are threads out there on breastcancer.org, for instance. But there are several, and you have to navigate posts from 2008 on. If you skip to the last page, you're left with half-conversations and more confused people jumping on the "please tell me what will happen to me!" train. Not wholly helpful.
Stuff to Consider About Taxol (and my singular experiences)
- The weekly Taxol regimen is accumulative. That means all the bad stuff may creep up - slowly - towards the end of treatment, weeks, months or even years, after you’re "finished." So prepare yourself, and don’t expect it all to come to a halt. It may not.
- I didn't know, and my doctors didn't know for sure, exactly what SE's (side effects) to attribute to what drug sometimes. The acne, for instance; some said it was from steroids, some said from Perjeta, some Taxol.
- Taxol is supposedly milder than AC, for anyone going through that. Knowing that makes me want to vomit, because I still have to undergo AC; it’s on the cancer docket. *Update: AC is much, much worse and I tolerated it terribly. Pray that if you get Taxol and AC that your doc does AC first, to get it out of the way.*
- Taxol weekly is exactly what it says it is - weekly. That means only a few days respite, if any, from the bad side effects. So don't feel badly if you keep hearing Taxol is "milder" than other forms of chemo (guilty, above) - and you're progressively feeling like terrible. It's normal.
- You will, and I will, get through this. No one is the same; no one can predict what will happen. Maybe you'll have it worse. Maybe you'll breeze through. But feel free to use this as a resource in case you want any consolation, or commiseration, on what can happen - what happened to me.
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