immunoglobulin therapy

gracie,

Interesting that you brought this up. My brother in law has been having weird symptoms for about 3 years. Coughing, asthma like symptoms and difficulty breathing. He's been hospitalized many times. He's seen this doc and that doc and no one has come up with what he has. Last night he said he was seeing an oncologist and maybe starting on immunoglobulin therapy. The therapy itself doesn't sound anything like chemo. They have sent sputum samples for culture for the next 3 weeks so won't start any therapy until then.

You don't have the same issues since you are dealing with neuropathy. I don't quite understand why they are doing immunoglobulin therapy for neuropathy?

tucker

Hello,

I was receiving IVIG during my pregnancy. Before my successful pregnancy I had two miscarriages. Finally, I was tested and told I had anticardiolipin antibodies. As soon I would become pregnant those antibodies would attack fetus. I was told I have to be on IVIG every three weeks until week 27 when baby was big enough to survive. IVIG did not give me any side effects except mild headache if given too fast. It was infused in hospital over 3-4 hours.

Good luck.

I have a friend who gets this about every 3 weeks. it takes 2 days because they have to put it in slowly or she gets a terrible headache. The other possible problem is high blood pressure while it is going in, but the nurse will watch for that. She sleeps during most of the infusion time, been doing it for about 8 years now and it is going well.

 My friend has perhaps 3  difficult days (including the 2 infusion days), then feels very good for about two weeks, then the week before the next infusion is rough once again.

but this is not done on my freind for cancer, it is lung and or neuropathy-related.

yes, it actually helped the neuropathy more than the lungs. I am talking about feet neuropathy that is not up to and above the knees.

She has tried to go without the infusion several times because of the cost, but she always always feels better, like i said, maybe 3 or 4 days after the infusion. it is like a new lease on life for a few weeks, until the meds wear off and she needs a new infusion. There have been times in the last 8 years or so where she has gone 8 weeks between treatments and did very well.

Oh you are welcome!!!

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