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Re: Neupogen verses Neulasta?
I'm also on Navelbine (3 weeks on/1 week off) and get Neupogen for 3 days after treatment. I self-inject at home.
My insurance uses a "specialty pharmacy" for these expensive drugs, so the injections are sent to me in a cooler by the specialty pharmacy. I cannot just go down to my local pharmacy or they won't be covered. It started out that my next door neighbor (who is a nurse) gave me the shots. Then she taught my husband to give them to me and then she taught me to give them to myself.
Not sure if you have any nurse friends who can help you to learn to self-inject? It makes life so much easier for me. I then bring my used needles to the Cancer Center when I go for treatment and dump them in the sharps box there.
Good luck!
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Diagnosed 10-03-2005 (34 wks pregnant, 38 yrs old)
Lumpectomy Nov-2005. 10/18 Lymph Nodes impacted
Mets to liver, spine & femurs (thus being stage IV right from the get-go)
ER-, PR-, HER2+
Taxol/Herceptin/Zometa started Dec-2005. 11 cycles of Taxol.
Sept-2006: PET/CT scan of mets to liver, spine and femurs - Stable. Activity in R breast & mediastinum (not seen in prior scans).
Navelbine (3 wks on/1 wk off) as of Oct--2006 & continued Herceptin (every 3 wks) & Zometa (every 6 wks)
Jan-2007: PET/CT Scan - Stable. Continued Nav. through March-2007, then Herc./Zom. only after that.
June-2007: PET/CT Scan - activity in mediastinum. Back on Navelbine as of July-2007.
Scanned Quarterly since Oct-2007 - a few small scares, but otherwise stable due to continuing weekly Navelbine, Herceptin and Quarterly Zometa.
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