Every three weeks or every week for Herceptin

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Several on this board have reported that asking the team who mix up the herceptin to omit mixing in the benzyl alcohol preservative) from your herceptin IV markedly improved the musculoskeletal complaints they had while on herceptin) If you weigh enough to have more than one vial of herceptin mixed up, you will need to share the second vial of herceptin with someone else (it is too expensive to throw away the rest) and that vial has to be mixed up with the preservative as the next person won't be getting herceptin at the same time you are) But let's say you get 1.2 vials of herceptin, then you will only get the tiny amount of preservative that was in the one fifth of a vial rather than 6 times that much (the amount in six one fifth vials)

Feel free to use search function on this --i have posted this at least five times before. Again, this could be in a thread pn what to expect from X treatment (gamma knife, liver embolization, herceptin infusions along with NCI descriptions, personal experiences and "helpful hints from Heloise"