07-21-2013, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: LAND OF YES!
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Orig from L.I., N.Y.
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My Wife Rachel Was Just Diagnosed With HER-2+ Breast Cancer (Please Help ...)
A friend/cancer survivor told me recently about Claritin and Neulasta.
When I was on chemo Neulasta or Neupogen were only given if your white blood cell count was too low to get chemo. Now they offer this as a regular course of treatment.
I do recall bone pain which I accepted as I knew I needed to boost my white blood cells and I "wanted" to get chemo. It was necessary. It was my lifeline. Pulling me through rough waters, to get to my goal...
Now I understand they have discovered that Claritin taken the day before (Neulasta shot) and once a day for a full week -- helps to prevent bone pain.
This article is a year old but interesting.
Claritin and Neulasta | We interrupt Walbridge's regularly scheduled program...
With a great attitude Rachel, and a super loving husband -- you will do well I believe. Still, I will add some prayers in your name, envisioning you bathed in radiant white Light of healing...
To better days... one baby step at a time... one day at a time... there is a light at the end of the tunnel...!
Andi
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Andi BB
'95 post-meno dx Invasive LOBULAR w/9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier. Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF). Borderline ER/PR. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive...
'98 -- multiple mets to liver. HER2+ 80%. ER/PR- Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast. New PORT. 9 mnths Taxotere Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!)
+ good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either...
Added Herceptin Nov '98 (6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08! Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug! NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings) EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE. Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle. Up to me and God now...
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