Filgrastim

• Hi all, so I had my first round of EC on the 2nd August- chose to have the cold cap, that nearly was taken off after the first 5 minutes! But I stuck with it, wasn’t a walk in the park but it did get better as time went on, I think my head just froze. 
  I was ok on the day of chemo and the second day was not too bad, I thought I had cracked it but for four days after it was a little rough. Did the Filgrastim injections ok after 5 days, I did them at 8pm each night, not much sleep seemed to be up and down to the toilet!!
• I have managed to go back to work part time makes the days go quicker, I am due chemo again on the 25th August so I am having a few very good days at the moment, just a few aches and pains and a low appetite. What I will mention is that I reduced my calorie intake prior to chemo for 2 days before and 1 day after, I am not sure if that helped with the sickness or not, but I didn’t have any nausea. 
  Thank you for all your advice as I took it and used it, and it worked in my benefit x

I hate needles but these injections are absolutely ok. Wouldn’t worry about having them again. Certainly beats a low white cell count and infection. Was admitted after 1st chemo with an infection in my pic line and had to spend 8 days in hospital - anything is better than that !

I've just gone through this after my 3rd round of EC chemo. The trick is to get someone else to inject for you. I was told that if I couldn't do it myself, ask the district nurses to do it instead! In actual fact my husband was able to do it for me, and it went really well. No problems. No side effects (I definitely could NOT have done it to myself). I guess it depends how co-operative your local surgery is, and whether you know anyone who would be willing to do it for you. Good luck!

My husband as had 3  lots of Chemo and is fine until he starts the injections .Each time he has been so depressed and just sleeping ,So much so this time I am worried about him driving to see the consultant .I am wondering if he can have break from it all or at least the injections .

Not good for my husband as he is feeling depressed and ill and it is a week since having the last one , He is thinking of stopping . 

Hi. I’m not sure if you still come here some 3 years later but just seeing how you are doing as I had the same, my oncotype was 26 and was told that was high risk of distant recurrence. I’m currently having chemo but they couldn’t say how much that’d bring the risk down by so interested to see how you are 3 years later?