Tarceva Side Effect

My mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 NSCLC on March 25. She started taking 150mg Tarceva two weeks ago and has yet to break out into this rash everyone describes. Is anyone taking Tarceva successfully without ever getting the rash? I keep hearing everyone say that the rash indicates that it's going to work....so I keep hoping for the rash.

for dry skin try to use vaseline it should not give you any bad side effect. also if you do get dry eyes use refresh PM at night that really helped me.

my mother in law took Tarceva for 1 month and for a variety of reasons was taken off it.  Her insurance company sent her a three month supply though so she has 60 pills left.  We have called all over to try to donate them but because the bottles could have been opened, ( they are still in original prescription bags)they will not take them anywhere.  We hate to just throw out such expensive medicine.  Any ideas what to do with 2 months worth of 150 mg Tarceva pills?

My partner has been on Tarceva for 10 months and the rash is indicative of effectiveness - read the data sheets - google it - but that is a GOOD thing....

 

On 10/25/2007 JGAs kids wrote:

my mother in law took Tarceva for 1 month and for a variety of reasons
was taken off it.  Her insurance company sent her a three month
supply though so she has 60 pills left.  We have called all over
to try to donate them but because the bottles could have been opened, (
they are still in original prescription bags)they will not take them
anywhere.  We hate to just throw out such expensive
medicine.  Any ideas what to do with 2 months worth of 150 mg
Tarceva pills?

 

You may be the answer to our prayers.

My
father in law has lung cancer has been prescribed Tarceva by his
physician in Panama. The medial facilities in Panama are state run and
have recently removed Tarciva from thier list of available drugs,
apparantly due to the expense.

He could have come to the US, and if prescribed Tarciva by a US doctor would have received assistance from the manufacturer

Unfortunately his visa was denied for financial reasons. (Limited Income)

As
the pills you possess are the correct dosage, I would be willing to
take the unopened pills and forward them to my father in law.

Please respond at your earliest convenience.

Best regards, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear JGAs kids

It has been a blessing to have com across you mgs. My freind's mom (61yrs of age) has been diagnosed with 4th stage NSCLC since Oct 2003 and has been battling with the dreadful deceased for the last 4 years. she has undergone multiple and endless chemo to fight this cancer. However it keeps coming back. This last Oct it came back and has even spread to her brains. She has just finished 12 rounds of radiation and will only know the outcome this coming Dec11th. As for her lungs it has even spread upwards and nearly covered the whole of her left lung. The doc has just strated her on 150mg Tarceva, but the family is struggling to meet the high expense of this medication. Therefore the family would greatly appreciate if you could share some of the pills with her.

Please do respond as soon as possible. The family is willing to pay for any freight charges for the pills to be sent to Penang, Malaysia.

Hope to hear from you soon.

God bless u.

 

I have been on Tarceva since Sept 8, 2008.  I take it before going to bed, so I don't experience the fatigue most people have.  I also, do not have the rash.  What I am experiencing is joint and muscle pain throughout my body.  I too would be interested to know if anyone else has had this.  And does no rash reflect on the fact that it might not be working.  I am 60 years old and have NSCLC 4+stage.  It is in both my lungs and lymph nodes.

My idential twinsister died of the very same thing last year.