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Has anyone suffered any side effects from this drug? My mother was receiving a weekly injection of 60,000 (units). My family had began noticing possible side effects after the first couple of weeks. Then in May of this year shortly after receiving the injection, she was rushed to the emergency room with very low blood pressure and her heart had stopped. She was placed on the ventilator. Overnight she improved and in a few days was moved to a private room. She was never given an explanation on what happened. My mother and her family informed the doctor and nurses not to give the injection again as we had suspicions about the drug (procrit) causing this. She was to be released from the hospital in a few days.
For whatever reason, she was given the procrit injection again and was rushed back to ICU within two days due to difficulty breathing and was placed back on the ventilator. When the doctor was asked why the injection was given, he blamed it on the nurse. We informed him that we had already talked to the nurse and she stated she had reminded him the patient did not want the drug. He stated it was only miscommunication. My mother passed away after two months in ICU.
I have contacted patients and families we have met in the ICU waiting room and have found similiar stories about side effects from the drug and possibly one other death.
My mother did not have cancer. She did have heart surgery in 1999 and recently suffered from mild anemia.