With this figures, I could surmise that the nurse is talking about your white blood counts or the neutrophil counts. White blood cell precursors in the bone marrow are usually affected by chemotherapy and this can lead to low levels of these blood cells. Since white blood cells are our body's defense against infections, the manifestations of low white blood counts would include fevers or any focus of infection.
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.
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.
I'm scheduled for an echocardiogram in two weeks but my doctor told me to continue all activities a she believes I'm very healthy and that the EKG reading is a "fluke" and that it's most definitely exercise induced.
If it is exercise induced, is there any harm in having LVH? I've read that sometimes they ask you to stop exercising for 3 - 6 months . . . if I do that then I WILL be unhealthy!
I have been told by my Cardiologist that Lipitor has a protective effect for cardiovascular disease even in patients with normal lipids, if there are other risk factors, such as family history. Is there evidence to that effect?
I am a 63 year old male. I was started on Lipitor in 2000 after some small calcium deposits were discovered in my coronary arteries on a screening CT scan (I was asymptomatic). Cholesterol was about 190.
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.
Neulasta is the same drug, filgrastim, only pegylated to stay in the system longer. Don't they have it available for cancer chemo patients? 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.
It is a good idea to wear gloves when cleaning the litter box. I have found the clumping litter to be the best and the easiest to keep clean. In stead of dumping the entire litter box out when cleaning it, a person can just pick out the solid pieces (both the feces and the clumped urine) or scoop them out, put them in a plastic bag, and toss them in the garbage can.
I get bad chest pain across my chest, numbness in left arm, sharp pain in left shoulder , and an irregular or palpitating heart beat. It scares the **** out of me, even after having this condition for over 2 years. I have had my heart checked with a stress test utrasound 1 yr ago, and a neuclear stress test done 6 months ago, and both were normal. It seems the symptoms are more prevelant when my stomach is bloated, or when I am constipated.
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!
PSP has been shown to significantly enhance immune status in 70 to 97 percent of cancer patients. Turkey tail is also being used to treat many different infections, including aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, E. coli, HIV, Herpes, and streptococcus pneumonia, and is hepatoprotective. It may also be useful for chronic fatigue.
Himematsutake (Agaricus blazei): Himematsutake, also called Royal Sun Agaricus, is a relative of the common button mushroom.
I had a run of NSVT on an 18 hour holter in 1987, I was 22 at the time, I'm now 49, PVCs and NSVT in a normal heart or even a heart with mild insignificant abnormalities poses little or no risks, no greater than the normal population, We all are at some statistical risks, no matter how minute, but to think about it constantly robs one the ability to enjoy a normal carefree life, which can in the long run carry more risks than the NSVT or PVCs.
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