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Lani · 02-20-2012, 02:57 PM

some ladies here reported that if you ask the pharmacist mixing up the herceptin for use for you to leave out the benzoyl alcohol (preservative, reportedly only needed if there is some left in the vial to give someone else later) from the vial only given to you, it cuts down on the total preservative infused (only that from the vial shared with another patient which requires the preservative be mixed with it) that they had less joint pain. May be worth inquiring about.

02-20-2012, 02:57 PM	#9
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,778	Re: Herceptin and chills/joint pain? some ladies here reported that if you ask the pharmacist mixing up the herceptin for use for you to leave out the benzoyl alcohol (preservative, reportedly only needed if there is some left in the vial to give someone else later) from the vial only given to you, it cuts down on the total preservative infused (only that from the vial shared with another patient which requires the preservative be mixed with it) that they had less joint pain. May be worth inquiring about.