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Capecitabine side effects are really tough: What helps?
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@nancyschweitzer
After reading your experience with Capecitibine it brought back bad memories for me like dehydration, mouth and nose sores, blistered feet etc. You never mentioned how many mg you took and I found most people took 2500-3000 but my first dose was 3900 mg
So glad to be in remission for 2 years now
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@denise134
I am glad that you asked this question because after I posted I realized that I didn’t mention that but could not go back in to edit the post;
I weighed 110lbs, I was 64 years old and healthy and exercised all my life.
Oncology started me on 1650mg 2x daily. This caused severe foot issues but they kept me on that dose for two cycles with longer recovery times. I was told to take 2000mcg of B12 daily.
Then they dropped it to 1300mg and side effects were still severe.
For cycle 4 they had to drop my dose to 1000mg 2x daily and I took it for 11 days but could not take it for the full 14 days due to side effects.
Congratulations to you for being cancer free 2 years! My Liver Resection y roux was December 3, 2025 and since then I’ve been cancer free. I will have my checkup in November and hopefully December will be one year cancer free for me. Yes, bad memories and hard times for sure, but the brilliant doctors and wonderful care team always made me feel that I was in the best of hands. I’d never go anywhere else.