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My mother takes herceptin. From what I understand you should have few if any side effects, but in some people herceptin can cause flu like symptoms. My mother was taking herceptin along with taxotere. She was very ill and had a lot of flu like symptoms such as body aches, etc. That was probably from the taxotere and not the herceptin. She has not had herceptin without taxotere so we just don't know which one caused her side effects. You do need to make sure that you have the occassional Muga scan as herceptin can have some cardiac toxicity. Hope this helps.