Just wondering how many people are having peg/filgrastim with their Paclitaxel.
Like many I’m having a rough time with the jabs whilst I’m on EC, which has thankfully just finished, but my nurse mentioned I mightnt need the home injections with the 4 PACs cycles I have ahead.
Just wondered if this was common… ever hopeful!! 
Hi Indigo
I had pegfilgrastim with paclitaxel. I tried to get out of it as I hated the stuff but no such luck!
Best of luck with it 
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I had it too as they wanted me to have my chemo every two weeks rather than 3. It allows your blood count to recover quickly. I didnt like them either even though the injection didnt actually hurt( nippy on 2 occasions in the last 2 weeks). Every time it took me ages to put that needle in!!
Speak to your cancer team. I have read on the forum of some ladies that go to the hospital/GP for theirs. Do you have a family member that could do it? Best wishes going forward. X
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Hi there
I’m actually a nurse and the injection itself doesn’t bother me, it’s the dreadful after effects. I’m pretty sure the chemo would be almost tolerable without the jabs! A necessary evil because of sepsis but I was interested to hear that some oncologists don’t give it with Paclitaxel and there was a glimmer of hope that it wasn’t needed! 
I didn’t have it with Paclitaxel. There was a debate as I had found the bone pain excruciating when I had had it with EC, we tried without, and my white blood cell counts remained fine.
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You can request to switch to Lenograstim - they are a bit of a faff as not pre-mixed but the side effects were a lot kinder, for me.
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Hi Indigo2,
I have filgrastim with paclitaxel 
I’m finding Paclitaxel is way easier, except from the fatigue, than EC so hopefully your side effects from the injections won’t be so intense.
Hope your treatment is going as well as it can.
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I’m having palitaxal after EC and the oncologist said I will only have the injections on the first 3 EC cycles and not the rest (palitaxal)
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Thank you for your replies everyone, I find out what the score is on Friday. Trying hard to go with the flow…for good reason. 
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How are you getting on? Xx
Well interestingly had my paclitaxel with filgrastim days 3-8 and the joint and bone pain were unbearable for over a week so I’m now on a reduced dose of pax and no filgrastim. I still get the pain but only on days 2-5 so it’s clearly the chemo itself that’s a major factor causing the pain. Just one of the unlucky ones. 
There are 2 or 3 in the January starters group however who are experiencing joint and bone issues with their pax cycles too.
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Hey, just wondering - are you having the pax weekly or 2 weekly?
I’m also struggling with the filgrastim and horrendous pelvic pain. I managed 3 injections and the oncologist told me to stop.
Waiting for a call from them to seal my fate if I need to carry on injecting or not 
Oh no so sorry to hear this. Are you having it weekly? Hopefully they can give you stronger pain relief as you can’t continue like this for back to back treatments x
Hope you’re ok. I’m going to weekly pac after my last EC next week. I’ve been told no injections so it seems weird that you are both having them x
Im on fornightly ec then fornightly Paclitaxel and have been told the 7 day injections will continue, i think the regime is called dose dense so given if on fornightly chemo rather than weekly
@lauzloo
Plan was two weekly pax including jabs, then day 3 after 1st pax unbearable hip and lower joint pain, on morphine all week. Decision to half dose and weekly no jabs.
There’s a real mix on here who have jabs or not but my pain was definitely still there without the jabs anyway!
Hope you achieve a compromise too.