filgrastim and pegfilgrastim

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.

Filgrastim is also prescribed as pegfilgrastim (called Neulasta). My doctor used the 500 neutrophill count as a cut-off, so every time I got down around 500 I used Neulasta. The interferon drops neutrophils and platelets. Some people can do okay with low neutrophils but just as many end up with kidney and sinus infections, etc., that make you even more miserable.

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!

All things being equal, it is good to have an onco with whom you feel comfortable with and who seems to care about you as a person,as well as one who inspires hope and confidence. Please keep us posted on how you are getting along. Best wishes...

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.

Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) and Neupogen (filgrastim) are both products of the Amgen pharmaceutical company. One recent cost estimate for Neupogen is $1500-2400 per injection, depending on the dose strength, and it is often covered to some extent tby insurances, including Medicare. The company also encouages those in need to contact its patient assistance program.

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.

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?

Riba crashes hemoglobin and procrit is started around 10 with the goal of getting you up to 11, so you'll be safe & just have the energy to keep going. It's a shot a week until you hit 11 or so and then it's stopped. A few weeks later you start the whole ride again when you get back down to 10. Riba reduction will also lessen the destruction of hgb.

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.

Filgrastim and pegfilgrastim

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