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Re: Subcutaneous herceptin
I have had 7 sub.cut..After 3 Years being on the drip (bone mets) I could not be happier: If I am lucky and it is not to busy I`m in and out the hospital in 20 minutes (including bisphosphonat-injection. First two injections it looked a bit like an enormous moskito bite, but that went down quickly. Now there is nothing, nurses say it is because they are experienced now (I was their first patient) Needle is very thin, compared with the sharp pain I experienced when they put the port-needle in this is heaven. Hospital was first very reluctant (staff has to be trained, they need a seperate room because the other patients could see your thigh(!!!) Now they are promoting it , it turnes out that the cancelation rate has gone down, people like me (self-employed) don´t have to waste
time and money just staring at a drip. This sessions were a constant reminder that I am a cancerpatient (most of the time I forget it). and seeing patients who were obviously not doing very well especially the very young ones really depressed me.O, by the way:SE:I used to be very tired with flue like symtoms after the drip, that is gone as well.
Next stop: I want to inject myself and then I will be FREE (more or less).
Hendrina
(living in the Netherlands, beeing treated in Germany, we live on the border
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