I found a phone number online and gave it to my doctor to start the process of switching me. She's never heard of Hizentra before (I think I said earlier that I'm her first diagnosed case of CVID), and so I'm also her first patient to switch to it. From everything I've read online in my support groups, it is the drug of choice. It has the reputation of having even fewer side effects than Vivaglobulin, which has fewer than regular IVIG. Before I even left the office my doctor had CSL Behring on the phone (manufacturer of Hizentra), and called me into her personal office to give her information on my insurance and other details that they asked for. She also submitted an order for additional blood work to be done right before my next infusion so that she could submit my "trough IgG levels" to help them determine what dose I will need.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Confusion Over How to Arrange the Switch to SubQ
Sometime in August...
I found a phone number online and gave it to my doctor to start the process of switching me. She's never heard of Hizentra before (I think I said earlier that I'm her first diagnosed case of CVID), and so I'm also her first patient to switch to it. From everything I've read online in my support groups, it is the drug of choice. It has the reputation of having even fewer side effects than Vivaglobulin, which has fewer than regular IVIG. Before I even left the office my doctor had CSL Behring on the phone (manufacturer of Hizentra), and called me into her personal office to give her information on my insurance and other details that they asked for. She also submitted an order for additional blood work to be done right before my next infusion so that she could submit my "trough IgG levels" to help them determine what dose I will need.
I found a phone number online and gave it to my doctor to start the process of switching me. She's never heard of Hizentra before (I think I said earlier that I'm her first diagnosed case of CVID), and so I'm also her first patient to switch to it. From everything I've read online in my support groups, it is the drug of choice. It has the reputation of having even fewer side effects than Vivaglobulin, which has fewer than regular IVIG. Before I even left the office my doctor had CSL Behring on the phone (manufacturer of Hizentra), and called me into her personal office to give her information on my insurance and other details that they asked for. She also submitted an order for additional blood work to be done right before my next infusion so that she could submit my "trough IgG levels" to help them determine what dose I will need.
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