Neulasta bone pain

Melinda0628

Just had my third ACT infusion out of 6. Half way there! How often should I take claritin for the bone pain? Once a day or more?

Connie1230

I took it once a day straight through from start to finish

Kicks

Can't help you - I had no pain issues with Neulasta. The only 'issue' I had with Neulasta was 2 yrs (almost to the minute) I would go to sleep for 2 yrs, wake up and nothing else from it.

Artista928

I took Claritin day of and 2 days after Neulasta and had 0 bone pain (1 pill a day for total 3 days). You can go longer if you need it.

mustlovepoodles

It's a long-acting drug taken once a day.  I took it the day before chemo and continued for 5 days, I believe. Only once did I have significant pain. About 3 days after my first chemo, I became septic.  I was all kinds of sick--I could barely even walk from my bed to the bathroom.   I don't remember much, but I do remember having pain in my facial bones, the base of my skull, and my lower back in my sacrum.  Actually, the back pain was excruciating.  I hadn't felt anything like that since I was in labor!  I finally had to take Percocet and even then it didn't take all the pain away. That was a miserable experience.

SpecialK

Melinda - I would start the day before but time taking it so that your dose is fully active at the time of the injection. In other words, if your injection is at 3 pm, start taking the Claritin (10mg of regular Claritin or generic loratadine, not Claritin D) in the morning the day before, then again the day of, then continue for several days afterward. Claritin's antihistamine works by helping control the edema in the bone marrow that is generated by the rapid manufacture of white cells, but because it is a 24 hour drug, it can take a bit for it to be fully functional and provide the bone pain prevention - rather than treating it once it has started.

Melinda0628

Thank you everyone. I am taking it once a day and seems to be helping. Much better than the last two times without taking it. Ill be glad when chemo is over.

BG46TN

I take it starting the day after chemo, 1 time a day (buy the 24hr one) and I take it for about 6 days...my nurse said to do 10 days, but I didn't really need it that long.