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Originally Posted by 4-eyes
Call the doctor for some prescription pain meds, possibly a nausea med (as that will probably show up, too) and perhaps a request for an extra bag of fluid to be run at the end of each infusion.
It is hard to drink enough if you are having swallowing issues. Sometimes IV fluids are a good substitute.
Don't suffer in silence. Call the doctor.
AND REDUCE THE RATE OF INFUSION! Probably not more than 50 ml/hr today!!! That is the number one cause of issues!
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I found the least side effects occurred, when they started me off at 40, and gradually increased it over the day. This however, made the entire procedure take up most of the day; and thus is the problem, as some places and or staff want to hook you up and get you done without consideration to the effect.
I'm still trying to figure out the correlation between IVIG and heart attacks. I have read, somewhere, that there is some connection with the pump pressure being administered, and welcome any feed back.