filgrastim and pbsc

my stats seem to go up and down so I only have to take it now every 2 wks. It is unknown whether filgrastim (Neupogen) increases or decreasses an individual's risk of developing cancer. Based on limited long-term data from healthy people ( if a person is healthy why would they need neupogen in the first place ) who have received filgrastim, no long-term risks have been found so far. good luck to you....hope this helped!

Do you mean filgrastim? And are you saying Dengue fever? It would be a surprising though perhaps not impossible use of filgrastim. Dengue is usually treated by pain managers and sometimes hospitalization and a blood transfusion. Anyway, if you have a legitimate prescription from a doctor, you should be able to fill it in the United States.

For this reason, patients are prescribed antibiotics and even receive injections to increase white blood counts (such as filgrastim or lenograstim). If this 0.4 value really pertains to your white counts, then I believe this is really low and what you are experiencing is a condition called 'febrile neutropenia'. I would suggest you ask your doctor about filgrastim or lenograstim injections aside from the Levaquin. Regards.

Hey everyone, Its sally. I went to dr. yesterday and hade the PCR test done. My white blood count is now really low. Dr said to come back in 2 weeks and if blood work shows the count is not improving we will have to re-evaluate my dosage. Also they will call me on the results of the PCR test. Friday will be my 5th shot. Suddenly I'm so tired and scared. Another dr has me on Xanex and this is seeming to help.

Taken 21 injections of Pegasys 180 mcg till date. i am having very wide fluctuations in WBC and ANC. The range is between 6500 and 1400 for WBC and 4700 and 260 for ANC. Doctors unable to give any explanation for such wide variations on a dose to dose basis. Till date, I have also taken 5 doses of Filgrastim - the WBC Stimulator. Can you pleae advice possible reasons for such wide fluctuations.

Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) or NEUPOGEN® (Filgrastim) may reduce your chance of getting an infection, but it does not prevent all infections. An infection can happen anytime your neutrophil counts are low. Look for signs of infection, such as fever, chills, rash, sore throat, diarrhea, or redness, swelling, or pain around a cut or sore. If you have any of these signs, contact your health care professional immediately. http://www.neulasta.com/starting-chemo-with-neulasta/about-neulasta-neupogen.

Perhaps contacting your primary care doctor is not a bad idea? Or is your PCP & internist the same person? In my case I am not sure if Neupogen is the proximate cause of the pain I feel as of late. I feel worse since I started Neupogen however I cannot help but wonder if I somehow inadvertently contributed to the matter. I do a lot of heavy work out doors and I have to admit it has felt incredibly laborious and overwhelming as of late; yet I try to persevere with the same intensity.

Hi, With modern medical advances, especially effective anti-emetics, and growth factors (filgrastim), chemotherapy has become safer and more tolerable over the last decade or so. Hair loss will be your major side effect, and some intermittent illnesses may also be expected during the course of chemotherapy. But your overall long-term benefit will be much more than these temporary effects. All the Best!

, the primary ‘rescue’ meds are (generic) epoetin alpha (brand names Epogen, Procrit, Aransp), and filgrastim (generic) (brand name Neupogen). We do have a platelet booster here that has been approved for cancer treatment; it is generically known as oprelvekin (brand name Neumega), but its use has not been FDA approved for HCV treatment to my knowledge; it tends to worsen hemolytic anemia, although we have had a few patients in forum that have tried it.

I just got my first report on my blood counts and my white blood cell count is low, 2.6. Is it o.k. to scoop kitty litter?

I am currently on the ribivarin and peg-interferon compound treatment. In month 4, and WBC is dropping. Dr. has ordered more blood work. I'm just trying to educate myself alittle before the CBC analysis. I really don't want to cut back on the treatment. I've gone through this much and mentally I'm ok with the crap it puts you through. I'm just looking for ideas to get the WBC back up there.

So I posted a two weeks ago about my cbc counts being low and needing the aranesp and neulasta. I have been very sick thhis past week it has been awful! I have been waiting for our insurance company to authorize the meds. I called the doctors today to find out what is going on, the nurse told me that the insurance company said they won't authorize the meds unless I am in kidney failure. I don't know about any of you but to me that sounds kind of drastic.

I used Neulasta, the pegylated form of filgrastim. More expensive but supposed to hold your neuts up longer when they are getting stomped by the IFN (I have good insurance). No side effect problems with it at all and it took my neut level from .640 to 12 overnight and kept me out of danger level for about 6 weeks. Better than an interferon reduction if patient is responsive to it.

I find it hard to imagine that such an important chemo rescue drug is not available in Australia. Try looking it up as filgrastim and if you can find it your doctor may be able to prescribe it off label. It's a biological, like interferon, so needs to be kept cold and may not ship well.

After Neup injections I get fever and bone aches. Wish it was side-less for me.

Thus local treatment (surgery) would not treat the distant spread, and these would continue to grow and appear on scans shortly after surgery. Hence a combination of local (radiation) and systemic (chemotherapy) therapy was tried and showed better results. Studies have shown that a combination of chemotherapy (usually with a platinum and etoposide) and radiation therapy offers the best chances of remission.

weight gain, sleeplessness, too sleepy during the day, lethargy, sweating, upset stomach, constipation and on and on and on..., you get the picture. I just decided to give up on them and do something different.

okay, writing on the run here but want to mention the cool thing about my bone pain (not muscle aches). When they were driving me nuts with shooting pain that I don't even want to think about again (like transition in delivery), my doc said that my body was trying to increase its plummeting white blood count and the pain represented success! Sounds hokey but then I saw in my lab reports that each time after my three major bone pain episodes, my precarious neutrophil count got boosted!

Hi Everyone, I was due for 3rd of 48 shots last nite, but was call by by GI (Fri) yesterday and told not to take my shot because my WBC was low. Also advised to continue Riba and wait for nurse to get "hormone??" approval from my ins. co. I have had HCV for about 20 years, dx in 2003, but due to lack of ins. could not get tx till now. Bx will be at the end of April. VL was 2,250.000, I am a 1a, and have had little to no testing prior to 11/07.

If there is a possibility you may get a placebo, I suggest having a back up plan in place. When my bloods started to tank at week 7 they reduced my peg. I immediately contacted another hepatologist and explained my situation....being in a trial and facing dose reductions. I arranged a "plan B" so that if the trial docs made me either skip meds or reduce doses further, I was going to leave the trial and continue SOC uninterrupted on my own.

thanks for your replies I dont know genotype just yet as they had not come through, only LFT test and VL, cos i feel like my liver is bouncing round inside me and iam knackered all the time (the reason i got tested) coulped with high figures i assumed my liver is damaged, iam waiting to see a specialist, and i am very scared as to what else i am going to find out, best regards James

I know, and I apologize for the fact that I have found out that there are sub-groups, such as alfa-2a, alfa-2b, etc. I will find out which from him later. My query for all of you who I am sure are experts by now, is that he has been put on two new meds just this Friday. He spelled them out for me and I cannot find them listed anywhere. This is what he gave me: Neupogen is a new med for him, also Procrit is another new med for him. Obviously I have gotten some spellings incorrect.

Filgrastim and pbsc

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