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When I was told that my daily injections of Neupogen would give me “flu-like symptoms,” I wondered what that meant. Well, last night it meant that I felt a lot like I had the flu. I felt crappy indeed.
But there’s some good news! “We want you to feel bad,” my doctor told me last week a little apologetically. That means the drug is working. (That is, it’s producing white blood cells and my body is reacting as if there were some kind of virus that had triggered this production.) So I guess it’s working. Hooray!
I feel a little better this morning, but then, I usually feel a little better in the mornings. So we’ll see how things go. It’s just one thrill ride after another these days.
