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WBC not high enough for chemo: What can I do to get them higher?
Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Mar 24 12:25pm | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
You should see a much faster response with your neutrophil counts going up beginning a few days after the injection. From experience and responses from other members who have had Neupogen or Neulasta injections, it’s pretty common to feel some discomfort in your bones when the medication starts working. An easy remedy, recommended by oncologists for that side effect, is to take Claritin antihistamine daily for a period of 7 to 10 days. Not Claritin-D, which has a decongestant that you don’t need. So if you do get the injection to help raise your white blood count ask your doctor or NP if it’s ok if you take Claritin.
Seriously? After chemo you’re able to eat oysters!?! Wow, while I love oysters, there’s no way I would have been able to handle those while on chemo. One thing to be very cautious to avoid while on chemo, are food borne illnesses. It’s important to make sure all meats and seafoods are fully cooked to at least 160 degrees. Included any deli sandwich meats!! In fact, you should avoid deli or buffet foods altogether for a while. Here is a good food safety guide from Cancer.net while on Chemo:
https://www.cancer.net/survivorship/healthy-living/food-safety-during-and-after-cancer-treatment
Wishing you all the best on this next round of chemo. Fingers crossed that your blood numbers are up enough to go ahead with the treatment so you can get all of this behind you! 😉 How many rounds of chemo are expected in your plan?
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ironically fried oysters are one of the few foods i've craved.. i must have eaten half a gal at least over the past couple of weeks.... but only 5 or 6 at a time...
can't stomach sandwiches or breads of any kind though 🙁 not even the homemade bread i could normally sit down and eat half a loaf at a time of... can't stomach any kind of deli meats, or pork or scrambled eggs...which is weird because ironically my best friend couldn't handle pork on his chemo either...so no bacon or sausage or ham...all foods i normally would eat... at least 95% of the foods i eat are foods i cook from scratch so thats been really interesting with me not feeling like cooking most days... my hubby swears he's starving cause he's been having to cook for himself and he does things like hamburgers, hot dogs, frozen fish and chicken nuggets etc,.. i made bbq ribs potato salad and baked beans yesterday and he was in heaven...then today he got cubed steak a baked potato and some of the scallop stuffed mushrooms and he was like "wow two good meals for two days in a row, i'm gonna starve with you leaving again" to which i just laughed and said well there's leftover ribs in the fridge lol.. its been really weird for me with me being a "scratch cooker", I've managed a couple of small pieces of steak over the past week, and baked potatoes but not much else.. unless you count thin mints.... the only GS cookie i can tolerate atm..
they are doing 3 rounds of chemo (which of course has now gotten off schedule and having to be recalculated), then a CT scan to see if the tumors have shrunk enough to do surgery...if not then prob another 3 before checking again... so that part is still kinda up in the air...