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Thanks Leslie. My secondary insurance United Health Care has not changed their guidelines. I'm currently working with a patient advocate from United Health Care to get this problem straightened out. If Medicare will not pay for the shot my United Health Care will as my secondary. My hemoglobin drops very quickly -- always has since the beginning. My hemoglobin even dropped when I was only getting Herceptin. Seems like I suffer from anemia all the time and the chemo just makes it worse. I had no problem until I had to go on Medicare in March. I had been on disability retirement unrelated to cancer and after 2 years I had no choice but to go on Medicare. My employer pays for my secondary coverage.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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