Sunday 20-July-2008:
Woke up today (10pm to most of you) to Kris showing me her hands. They were red. Not as red as they were before with the higher dosages of Xeloda but red enough to be noticeable. Up until now they have been a wee bit darker than normal... sort of a darker pink than normal but everything has been fine so we watched. About Friday her Acid Reflux and Heart Burn started getting bad too. It's not like we didn't expect this but we were hoping it would not show up. Note that this Tuesday is her last dosage before her next infusion of Herceptin and Taxotere.
Our plan is to call Dr. Moran in the morning before she takes her dosage and consult with him. With only three or four dosages left (Monday and Tuesday)... well, I'm not sure if he'll ask us to stop or continue.
She's currently on only four pills a day, two in the morning and two in the evening. If I am recalling correctly, that's 2000mg per day. When she started it was 400mg per day and the really bad side effects didn't start right off... in fact, they started about the second course of dosages. Thus, our fear is that if we stay at the current dosage, the next course will be worse.
Edit: Sorry, was off by a factor of ten with the current Xeloda dosage!
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