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Nora
Have you tried asking to have your oncologic nurse mix up your herceptin with normal saline instead of with the benzyl alcohol-containing vial that comes with it? Several on this board report less joint pains when that is done.
As I don't know your weight, and therefore not how many vials you use, this is easy if you use only one vial's worth. Otherwise, some have asked to have one vial mixed up with Normal Saline and the other with the normal diluent
(this is because the rest of the vial must be used by someone else due to the high price of herceptin, and if the rest of the vial is not used immediately some bacteria could grow in it because the purpose of the benzyl alcohol is to be a preservative and antibacterial I believe.
Not yet sure who I might pass along the info from this thread to...
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