A man asking for help has this scenario and questions from another forum

This also can serve to show others what kind of things go on in PCa advanced treatments and how your doctors may or may not answer your questions or advise you of all side effects or what to expect scenarios.  It would be wise to learn all you can about various drugs and protocols if you face using them in the near future....knowledge is your power.

Here is the guys scenario:

what is happening to me?

I was taken off of taxotere and went w/o treatment for 2 months. two weeks ago i started jevtana and i was given a shot for white blood cells (?), a few days later i was unable to walk and went into ER. They gave me morphine and every other med imaginable, but they cannot control my pain. the pain is to my buttocks areaa upper legs. I cannot walk and don't know what to think or do. Has anyone experienced this? I also had zometa the day that i had chemo... i have no idea what my psa is. my doctor's are very standoffish. the last time i had lab work done psa was at 98.

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If you have any clues and answers you can reply directly via going to www.yananow.net and using there discussion board, this is a recent post there.  All I can say is, it is not pretty and you gotta feel sorryful for the PCa patient and even more pathetic his docs are sheepishly away from giving him explanations, it appears.  Let's hope this is not the future scenario for some of us going forward.  Jevtana is Cabazitaxel another type of chemo recently approved by FDA, we don't know what the white blood cells shot was at this point.  

Post Edited (zufus) : 2/8/2011 5:17:59 AM (GMT-7)

Steve's post notwithstanding and to the contrary, I'm sure the "shot for white blood cells" was Neulasta, which is pretty nasty stuff. My doc prescribed Claritin the day before, the day of and for 2 days after and I had no issues with Neulasta, apparently nicknamed "neu nasty". I had Neulasta one time in the past without the Claritin and it was horrible.

zufus,

i really feel bad for this other fellow. that's a hard path he is on, with a lot of suffering. hope some simple relief can be found, as suggested by gordy. i watch these advanced cases closely, just in case it comes back to haunt me one day in those situations.

david

Great heads up Gordy, so Steve sometimes a grape vine network is good useful idea. Now we might know about Neulesta and using Claritin...glad you had an answer. That mans situation is just not what should happen to a patient.

I will checkout yananow right now, thanks for getting envolved.

Just a reminder that medicinal cannabinoids are off topic here at HW. While there is an acknowledged benefit to cancer patients among doctors, it is a commonly abused topic online and the current rule is to avoid it.

Thank you for understanding...

Tony