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Cold feeling during Erbitux infusions? Anyone else experience this?

ByeByeCancer
ByeByeCancer CSN Member Posts: 54
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

My husband had his 5th Erbitux yesterday.  (SCC BOT IVa HPV+) He says he has been freezing during each of the Erbitux sessions.  He feels like the cold is so intense it is painful.  I got him a heated blanket to try but he says it didn't heat up fast enough to really help. Maybe the nurses could heat up the Erbitux a bit before injecting?  Anyone have any experience with this?

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  • DanceSkater
    DanceSkater CSN Member Posts: 62
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    Got a little cold

    I got a little cold during my infusions of erbitux but nothing like your husband is describing.   The nurses would bring me one or two heated hospital blankets and I would be fine.  I'm 5'5'' and weighed about 130/135 pounds at the time.   I assume your husband has 3 infusions left to go ?  Hope everything else is going okay with his treatments.

    Jan

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  • ByeByeCancer
    ByeByeCancer CSN Member Posts: 54
    edited October 2017 #3
    DanceSkater said:

    Got a little cold

    I got a little cold during my infusions of erbitux but nothing like your husband is describing.   The nurses would bring me one or two heated hospital blankets and I would be fine.  I'm 5'5'' and weighed about 130/135 pounds at the time.   I assume your husband has 3 infusions left to go ?  Hope everything else is going okay with his treatments.

    Jan

    Yes, he's got 3 left

    3 Erbitux treatments left and 17 radiation treatments left.  Going pretty good so far.  Throat starting to get a little raw this week and the rash is crazy...but other than that he's feeling okay.  He's still working, eating,etc. for now.

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