Round 3 delayed

Carebear50
Carebear50 Member Posts: 7
edited June 2014 in Managing Side Effects of Breast Cancer and Its Treatment

Struggling with keeping my spirits up when I have been delayed again. I am supposed to have 4  A/C and supposed to get 4 Taxol after that. Now that my bone marrow (white blood cells) aren't co-operating they are talking about changing the last 4 treatments. Worried that I'm not getting the first choice treatment. Has this happened to anyone else ?

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  • CoolBreeze
    CoolBreeze Member Posts: 4,668
    edited September 2011

    What does "not cooperating" mean?  If they are low, they can give you neopogen or leukine or something to bump them up and keep you on track.  Seems almost every woman on chemo has to do this at some point.

    Other than that, I'm not sure what could be happening to you. 

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  • Carebear50
    Carebear50 Member Posts: 7
    edited October 2011

    Not co-operating means even after taking Neupogen I still have low neutrophils, enough that I have been delayed twice and I am only on treatment #3 when I get to it. Just wondering if there is anything else I can do to raise my counts I guess

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  • SheriA
    SheriA Member Posts: 6
    edited October 2011

    I also had a delay in my 3rd treatment because of my neutrophils being low. That was a thursday and they had me come back on monday and they were up a little so they went ahead with the infusion.

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