Help! Neupogen and Chest Pain

[Rosebud41]

I took my second injection of neupogen Friday night, about 1 hour later,
I experienced chest pain and rapid heart beat.
I will be contacting my doctor this morning.
Has anyone else experienced this or know anything about this side effect.
I am not on tx now . I was stopped in February due to low neutrophil numbers and
a doctor who didn't really have the expertise to treat Hep.C or complications.
The very experienced specialist I am now seeing wanted to see if he could get my numbers up a little before restarting
treatment. It seems that every step along the treatment process has been difficult for me and I don't want my doctors to give up on me.

Rosebud

[Rosebud41]

Thanks for responding so promptly. I have been very frightened every since the pounding hard incident. I go today to get my blood tested.

I went to the doctor and he checked my heart out and found everything was O.K.

How did you get through treatment with all the pain from Neupogen for 7months.

I haven't even started the treatment yet, but I'm determined to do it if physically possible.

I have the support of my 80 year old parents and all my aunts and friends etc.

Again thanks so very much for your account of your situation.

Rosebud41

[FlGuy]

"felt as if maggots were gnawing at my bones".  I love that description.

[CoWriter]

Chest pain is listed as an adverse reaction on the Neupogen med insert.  Notify your doctor about the chest pain.

http://www.neupogen.com/pi.html#adverse

[czechm]

I got a call from my doctor  3 months into my hep c treatment that I had no white blood cells and had to get a shot of neupogen immediately! I was on neupogen for 7 months, and I had all kinds of side effects from it, especially on my left upper back and shoulder (it felt as if maggots were gnawing at my bones).  I had pains everywhere which made me have panic attacks that I was having a stroke, not the case.  Every time I showed up at the doctor telling him I was dying he said I was fine.  So, I slowly accepted that it was my mind mostly reacting to all the drugs...I was suffering from anxiety attacks which lead to panic and so I treated it with anti-anxiety drug throughout the entire treatment.  Not pleasant physically painful, but most of all psychological drainage.
best of luck