Low neutrophils

Hi 

I can’t answer your question as to why you can’t have the injections again , only to say that my neuts are 1.1 and chemo been cancelled for this week !! I had a nasty infection and was on antibiotics but the number scares me 

I have not been offered the injections either , they want to see if my body will recover and numbers pick up on wbc… feeling similar to you on that one too but would prefer not to have the injections but will if they say 
I am eating more proteins , fish / nuts and plenty of veg , fruit and smoothies ( I say plenty , just as much as my appetite allows ) and lots of water 

Can you call nurse again , you should at least have an explanation 

Sending hugs 

L xx

hi no magic wand from  me im afraid but I do know how scary this is and I understand your anxiety. no 4 of PAX and although my wbc was OK, red blood count was very low , was told i may need a blood infusion  if got much lower, scary, had an iron infusion  no 5 and  today was told RBC is the same, no worse, no better , hoping the iron helps soon. just as I thought was on home run, chemo throws a curve ball....am trying to ensure I eat more meat. it can't hurt to eat better. I'm going  to try my hardest  to complete the 12 cycles unless they pull the plug , can't do anymore than that. Good luck with whatever your decision is Etna x

Morning Etna

Sorry your feeling so disheartened and upset 

I don't know why they are not wanting to give you the injection at mo I would try and see if you can get a better explanation from them 

but I wonder if it's because the injection can cause your body to go from very low to high very quickly and that is actually more dangerous according to my consultant and as I now know cause many problems 

I don't know if this will help you but this is what happened to me  I was low on the Sunday blood test so given them to take home after my chemo on the Tuesday to start taking on the Thursday as normal then had to have my bloods done on Sunday perfectly normal week on the Friday I started to feel more sickness than normal and my legs really hurt this was then followed by constipation like I had never had before this continued on Saturday with my leg hurting and feeling so wrong that I couldn't drive ( now I guess I should have phoned for help at this point but  because it was just an escelation of things I had had all through treatment I just kinda excepted it)  had to get some one to take me to have blood done on the Sunday 2hours later I got a panicked phone call to stop taking jab immediately as my white count was sky high and whole thing actually started a chain of events were everything got so out of wack I ended up in hospital extremely ill for a week and have had to have my chemo shortened and reduced luckily it's done it job and shrunk lumps enough that the surgery to follow will hopefully now just be a lumpectomy 

I hope this helps sending hugs xxx

Ah ok, I had it on the EC and it was this low but I guess that's a different chemo.

That makes sense, I wish someone said to me like my oncologist or the nurse.

I re read my medical records it says 1.5 - 8 is normal doing I'm normal ,I think I'm just in a panic as it's dropped so quickly so I'm worried it will drop even lower.

Oh ges, I've no idea all this stuff can happen, it's so scary, I hope you start to recover xx

Thanks, 

I've started to eat nuts from yesterday, I'm going to do my best to keep a healthy diet, this week,.

I going to ask if I can take protein with vits & mineral's shake as my weight is dropping fast, lost alot weight on the EC as I just couldn't eat .Im slim and easy to loose the weight harder to put it on which is a nightmare.

I hope you recover well & it all goes ok x

Thanks 

It’s so hard isn’t it , that’s a good idea about the shakes especially if you’re losing weight 

love L xx

I think the situation we are in make us all worry and look at things we never would have before at least.lets face it we were all going about are normal live feeling fine then either found a lump or it was found on routine scans and then suddenly in a very short time we are given loads of examinations and a huge amount of info /paperwork to take in and make quick decisions on and everyone is different to we all get given different treatment options and react differently to medications and that is the brilliant thing about this forum there are lots of us on here all at different stage so you can ask question and no one is going to make you feel silly as we all understand and sometime we can offer an opinion or some info that might help sometimes we can just offer hugs it all done with love and care which often the medical teams wonderful as they are just don't have time to give if I've helped I'm glad and I hope your soon feeling better and remember we are all here for you even if it's just to say hi take care sending hugs xxxx