"In a clinical study, mild to moderate bone pain occurred in 31% of the patients taking Neulasta®....In most cases, bone pain was controlled with a non-narcotic pain reliever, such as acetaminophen." Source: http://www.neulasta.com/patient/support/support.jsp
Yup, they are right. The last time Neulasta was injected into my system, I was also taking steroids, so the side effects may have been minimized. I'm not in awful pain or anything, I'm just aware that there is something inside of me that is hopefully doing it's job. It sure ain't your grandmother's aspirin.
Sometimes I'm asked if I feel fatigued when my blood counts are down. Good question.
It depends on which counts are down. If my white counts are low (which they currently are), then I am susceptible to infection, viruses, etc. White blood cells are the cells that fight off infection. If the red counts are low (which currently they are just outside the minimum level), then fatigue sets in.
To further add to the confusion, within the white and red cells, there are subsets. That's as far as I'll go with it today. Tomorrow, I'll wait until after my appt. at 2:30 to post anything.
2 comments:
First. When red blood cells and white bloods cells get married and have babies, do they have pink blood cells?
What are your pink counts?
Actually Skippy....when they extracted stem cells, THEY were on the pinkish side. As they say, "Real men wear pink!" My "pink counts" at the time were 4.7 million cells that were extracted from me over the course of 4 days. I didn't know I had 4.7 million of anything. Wonder if I could sell them for a dollar each?
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