You are amazing 🤩 thank you for the information.
I wish you all the best 💕

Everyone reacts differently to chemo, and yes there are side effects. There are meds to offset the most common ones, and some tips and tricks to help. Remember, the drug manufacturers list all these side effects as the way to legally cover their backends. I tell people I had the buffet of side effects, a little bit of a lot of things, but not too much of any one! And the ones I had, they did not all come on at once, it was different things as we made our way through the protocols. And if anything is really challenging, the doctors can adjust the dosages, etc. to make it easier. Keep your PCP in the loop, mine did a CBC lab, as well as a nutrition panel to make sure I was in my best place to take this on. She also reviews all my scans, labs, etc- a second set of eyes looking over things never hurts! Hugs!

Thank you so much for responding to me. I’m so afraid of all the side effects that I have been hearing about. I’m worried that it might nock me out and I will never recover.

PS. I worked all the way through treatment, and retired this past June from the school system- just a couple months shy of my 68th birthday! Hugs!

Hi Mehrnaz! My diagnosis was HER2+, Stage 2 Grade 3. I was 62 at the time and still working full time. My chemo was TCH. The chemo was hard, I had the Neulasta Onpro auto injector to help boost white blood cells (the infection fighters). That caused some rough bone aches- which makes sense, as the drug was stimulating the bone marrow to make more white blood cells- so it was working harder than normal. I never had any trouble with the white blood cells. However, my red blood cells (which carry oxygen around the body) definitely took a hit with each chemo. This brought about mind-numbing fatigue. Most days, I went to work, came home and made a simple dinner for the hubs and me, washed the dishes, took a shower and was in bed by 7 to start over the next day. I was scheduled for 6 chemo sessions, and twice a session had to be delayed a week because the red blood cells and plasma counts were too low to proceed. But eventually I made it through the 6 chemo sessions. Then I moved to Herceptin only- and that was soo much easier. Besides being faster, the Herceptin has the job of blocking signals instead of zapping cells. So, bit by bit your energy starts to come back, as well as stamina. After a few months- even while still on Herceptin, if you have lost your hair, you may reach up and feel the fuzzies of new hair growth!
Hang in there, it's not easy, but listen to your body, when it says rest- go with it! It is all part of the process and healing! Hugs!