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I JUST WENT TO THE DR AND TOLD ME MY WHITE BLOOD CELLS WERE LOW SO THEY REDUCED MY MEDICATION THEN I WENT BACK 12 WEEKS LATER AND THEY DROPPED EVEN LOWER I HAD TO GET AN THIS TREATMNET ***** INJECTION

Just got the call this morning that my doctor wants to put me on Neupogen for 4 weeks because my white blood cells are so low. I'm so disappointed, I really wanted to be done shooting into myself!! Anyone else out there on this drug? I don't know a thing about it.

I just read that a lot of people try NOT to take Neupogen unless it is a necessity due to sx. I am on Neupogen and I take it 3 times a week and have been taking it for 8 mos. now. Does anyone know exactly why people/anyone would want to NOT take Neupogen? Your answers may provide some insight for me and my sx's.

has anyone had Low white blood cell beginning tx and stayed border line and no need for medication. Im in week 3, has anyone had 2700 of WBC and stayed low in tx and no medication needed. I was 4500 beginning of tx and in week 3 I'm 2700. Im 1a and going for 48 weeks, can I make it with no medicine for bringing WBC back up.

Having said that, there is much debate in the medical community whether or not HCV treating patients are at any further risk of developing infection even with a low ANC Neupogen is another very strong medication and always best to have a frank discussion with your doctor on wether o not he/she feels it is even necessary even if your level ever is too low Best of luck with your tx. Will.

Low WBC/ANC and low platelets. Took Neupogen for ~48 weeks. It never affected the platelet levels ... unless it was for the worse, which is doubtful. Starting from a low base of mid-90's platelets dropped to the 40's after 3 or 4 months of tx. Luckily it bounced around the 40's for the duration. Your platelets may take a hit but with a hope, a prayer and a hearty HI-OOO Sliver! it won't be a problem.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, Neupogen is not the right medication for your husband. Neupogen is used to increase white blood cells. You said your husband's red blood cells are down, which means that he is anemic, and the correct management of anemia for someone on triple tx with Incivek should be 1) reduce the ribavirin dosage in 200 increments, 2) transfusion, and 3) Procrit, which is a medication that helps the body increase red blood cells.

Neupogen can cause major bone pain, here are some things I find help me a bit, To me this is worse sometimes than the infergen! Ibuprofen is good, I tak epre injection pre sleep. Warm bath helps, heating pads also I have lately found stretching and small walks help also, It is major hard to get going on these, when all you want to do is lay there and cry, but dig deep, because it does help. laying there I think makes it worse, all the muscles tighten up.

Usually the neupogen is a very fast working medication and I do not understand why they insisted he stop treatment instead of taking the neup WITH the regular meds. As a stage 3 it's critical that he get SVR now if possible - rather than later. Many people in here have had their white blood problems repair themselves without even doing a rescue med. It would have seemed to me that staying on the peg and working out the other problems would have made more sense.

In the randomized‚ double-blind‚ placebo-controlled trial of Neupogen® therapy following combination chemotherapy in patients (n = 207) with small cell lung cancer‚ the following adverse events were reported during blinded cycles of study medication (placebo or Neupogen® at 4 to 8 mcg/kg/day). Events are reported as exposure-adjusted since patients remained on double-blind Neupogen® a median of 3 cycles versus 1 cycle for placebo.

I am not on chemotherapy but I have to take Neupogen 2x/week at 480mcg a shot. The bone pain I have is horrible, the weirdest pain I have ever had before. My bone marrow gets so swollen that I can actually feel my heart beat in my femur, pelvis and ribs. That happens if I get up too fast, or bend over. On top of that I have the "bone aches and sharp zings" of pain for a day and a half after a shot. The first night I woke up shaking, because of the pain my body was experiencing.

"I know my spleen is enlarged but I figure it's working overtime trying to get my blood counts back to normal levels." That is NOT TRUE. The spleen does NOT get enlarged for that reason. If your spleen was NOT enlarged before you started treatment, the fact that it is enlarged now would be worrisone. I'm not sure using Neupogen on somebody who has an enlarged spleen is safe since Neupogen can cause the spleen to rupture.

I have been doing "some" reading on Neupogen and have read that although it is not FDA approved for the treatment of,HCV, no generics being manufactured and is quite expensive. Are there assistance programs out there to assist with cost of Neupogen if my Dx prescribes. I am on a basic health program and co-pay 50% for all meds.

s use as the threshold for starting neupogen. The neupogen often brings up the ANC quickly, but the interferon knocks it back down. You will need to continue to monitor it and may need to continue through the end of trt. Good luck.

Do any of you have information about any long term side effects if you had Neupogen for 40 weeks?

low blood count started neupogen injections to build up white blood cell count so I can have chemotherapy, can I drink beer with this?

So the doc finally agreed to a neupogen shot, after many delayed shots of pegasys. I was supposed to do a shot tuesday, however got bloodwork done today and anc is 620, Doc says to take neupogen tonight (I did, the neupogen is 300mcg, im ~130lbs) and get more bloodwork done on thursday, and then he'll call friday with whether or not to take the shot or not. So here I am, waiting, again. Arggg!

I am supposed to receive Neupogen tomorrow. Did my peg shot this morning. I'm sure I will get instructions with the med but it's good to get some input from those who are currently treating with it. Are we supposed to wait 24 hrs after the peg shot to inject Neup? Should I inject more slowly than I do with Peg? Docs office told me to reduce peg today to 135 mcg but I didn't (me not listen - what a revelation) because I knew I was getting the Neup tomorrow.

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