Wednesday, May 20, 2020

First round of Xeloda

I've been on Capecitabine (aka Xeloda) for almost 2 weeks now. It's a pill that you take for 14 days, then skip 7 days. Traditionally I think it was used to treat Stage 4 breast cancer, but a clinical trial showed that it improved survival in triple negative patients, "particularly in patients with residual disease following neoadjuvant chemotherapy treatment." That's me! Though I had a bit of HER2+, my residual cells were mostly triple negative. I'm also doing Herceptin every 3 weeks.

I know it's really early, and side effects add up, but so far I am not feeling many side effects. I had a couple of aches the first weeks when I was laying in bed at night, but I noticed it happened more on days I was not very active. So I've been trying to work out at least 5 days a week (20-30 minute intense exercise bike workout) and get a good walk or two in every day.

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