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Claudine68
Claudine68 Posts: 1
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I just finished my first round of chemotherapy and am getting ready to start a 12-week, once per week dose of Taxol and Herceptin. I experienced bloating and cramping with my AC drug combination and am trying to lose weight, albeit slowly. Has anyone had success in losing while undergoing chemotherapy?

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  • AuntieMC
    AuntieMC Posts: 346 Member
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    Yes, indeed! I was 54 when I was diagnosed, and I spent a year in chemotherapy. When I went in to chemotherapy, I weighed 365 pounds, and had been disabled and hadn't worked in years. I changed my lifestyle to help in my recovery, and I lost 188 pounds over the next 1 1/2 years (the first year of which was during chemotherapy). Here is a link to my blog about it (although when I wrote the blog, I had only lost 120 pounds). http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/AuntieMC
    In addition to losing all the weight, I came out of chemotherapy no longer disabled, and have been working again for about a year and a half! Gained back some of the weight, though (bummer!).

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