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Posted 10/21/2012 9:02 PM (GMT 0)
Posting on this site too. Just had a friend starting Taxol and is already getting side effects of aching. In other suggestions welcome.

Has anyone done this - taking Claritan before chemo and/or Neulasta - heard about it, tried it, know anything about it...?

We received this information from a nurse who had been battling breast cancer, than later from one of my husband's chemo nurses near the end of his Taxotere infusions. Also came up with another breast cancer fighter at a talk at the Wellness Center; however, the chemo nurse talking had not heard of it. He has been using it with the Jevtana (Cabazitaxel). His flu like aches have been diminished greatly to near zero.

Some of you well connected to experts might know more, but it's more in the palliative care area; which technically what all this journey is for us now.
Posted 10/23/2012 1:56 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, my chemo nurses said to use Claratin for bone pain. It sounded far out to me too. I never had to use it, as I didn't hurt.

Nulasta, I had to get the shot the day after chemo. I had about 2 hours, then it would flatten me. I'd be too fatigued to move. But it did keep my white cells up, and that's always good.
Posted 10/23/2012 2:53 AM (GMT 0)
We think its helped and have had others say it helped, but then many seem to know nothing about it.
Posted 3/7/2014 7:31 PM (GMT 0)
I utilized it two to three days prior to the chemo.......take it twice a day for a couple of days prior to your treatment. It lessened the blow each time for me. The very first time with neulasta had me in another world of pain and all of the above side effects. The next three I did Claritin. Although it was bad I was functioning on a higher level than without the Claritin. Joint pain was unavoidable.
Posted 3/9/2014 7:28 PM (GMT 0)

Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) is a man-made form of a protein that stimulates the growth of white blood cells in your body. White blood cells help your body fight against infection.

Neulasta is used to prevent neutropenia, a lack of certain white blood cells caused by receiving chemotherapy.

My first 12 rounds of chemo flattened me out, dropped my neutrophils with the first dose.  From the 2 - 12 dose  I had to have a shot of Neulasta exactly 24 hours after my chemo was infused. ( my chemo ran for 4 hours at the clinic and then 48 hours at home on an infusion pump )

Neulasta did cause me some large bone pain that usually started within 8 hours of the injection.  My Dr. gave me pain medicine as my sternum, hip joints and shoulders would hurt.  It went away over a 4 day period but each of us is different.

I wish you peace and it is good to see how caring the members of the Breast Cancer Forum are.  I am just lurking as my cancer is not breast but Stage IV colon cancer.

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