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Any successful experiences with GemAbrax after awful side effects?
Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Apr 5 2:48pm | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
I am 75. The worst is the hair loss, fatigue and neuropathy to my feet especially. I read your description below about your neuropathy & would agree that is the same feeling. I see you are with the VA. I am trying acupuncture to relieve some of the neuropathy & if you start early enough & can continue it does help. I try using community care for the acupuncture but am not getting it half the time. Time to go to chemo..#22 this time around; total will now be 66. I have not had issues with my labs. Oh, the worst is the constipation! after chemo!
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Oh, yeah... hair loss. My husband looks completely different without his beard and eyelashes and says his nose is always dripping without nose hair 🙂 I hadn't seen him without a beard in 47 years. More concerned about fatigue and neuropathy. For Dan the nausea was much worse with folfironox than it has been with gem/abrax, so that is a plus.
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Constipation after chemo. Had nelected to list that one but lasts only one day now so I guess my body is getting acclimated to the meds. some. Hair loss: I was never much to look at but that sure didn't help. 🙂 I'll ask about the acupuncture when I see my VA doc again. 22 sessions: I'm going to do my best to keep up some exercise for strength as that's about all I can do to help myself bear up to the infusions. My oncologist did change my schedule 2 days ago to once every 2 wks. instead of 3 on/1 off.