Chemotherapy during covid

Hi I'm getting chemo for BC paclitaxel and Herceptin/ Perjeta . I've just had covid and I'm not convinced I'm totally over it but my chemo is going ahead as I've missed a few weeks for different reasons. Has anyone else had experience of getting chemo just after or during covid and how did it feel? A bit scared but at the same time I know I need to get cracking with the chemo. Had 5 days of psxlovid antivirals And felt much better but have felt worse since it stopped - mainly very sore throat . 
 

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  • Aye, my wife got docetaxel a week after testing negative. Like yourself, she had missed a week here and there for various reasons. Mostly because it was hammering her, and she kept getting something or another like covid, shingles and temps (unrelated to covid). She was fine getting chemo insofar it didn't knock her any more than it would have in the absence of covid.

  • Thisnks so much for taking the time to share this.hope your wife is ok and chemotherapy is going as well as possible 

  • She finished it a few weeks ago. She's 2 weeks out from her op.

    Weirdly, she found covid to be a welcome break. She said it felt a lot better than the chemo did. We were all kinda lucky. I had a dry right nostril for a day, and had my wife not been rushed to hospital with a blazing temp and subsequently tested positive, I would never have even thought to test myself. I assumed it was the heating blaring that had dried my nose. She was a wee bit breathless for the first day (we didn't even think covid), then she woke up with a raging temp. The next day she felt normalish. She got the antibodies via iv.

    Covid is really strange, huh? Someone like me wouldn't even have realised i had had it, whilst others get floored with it. Like i said, even the wife was fine barring the high temp for a day.

    Just listen to your nurses and doctor and you will be fine. I think there's a lot of data around now telling them it's safe to administer chemo in recently recovered people.

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  • She finished it a few weeks ago. She's 2 weeks out from her op.

    Weirdly, she found covid to be a welcome break. She said it felt a lot better than the chemo did. We were all kinda lucky. I had a dry right nostril for a day, and had my wife not been rushed to hospital with a blazing temp and subsequently tested positive, I would never have even thought to test myself. I assumed it was the heating blaring that had dried my nose. She was a wee bit breathless for the first day (we didn't even think covid), then she woke up with a raging temp. The next day she felt normalish. She got the antibodies via iv.

    Covid is really strange, huh? Someone like me wouldn't even have realised i had had it, whilst others get floored with it. Like i said, even the wife was fine barring the high temp for a day.

    Just listen to your nurses and doctor and you will be fine. I think there's a lot of data around now telling them it's safe to administer chemo in recently recovered people.

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