[mmsuffrahParticipant]

Anyone experience hallucinations using high dose Plerixafor for mobilization?

[janwParticipant]

Hi,

I had Plerixafor the evening prior to the first day of my second Stem Cell harvesting, as well as the following evening prior to day 2 of the harvesting. I experienced some really weird hallucinations during the night of the harvesting. I raised my concern with the nurses, but apparently they had not had any other patients experiencing similar side effects. But when I looked online about related side effects to Plerixafor, there were some studies which identified patients experiencing nightmares and hallucinations relating to the drug. On a positive note, Plerixafor worked really well in resulting in the required number of stem cells being collected for a second SCT in 2015.

Jan

[mmsuffrahParticipant]

Jan, Thanks for the reply. I needed Plerixafor to boost 4 days of G-CSF and got a subsequent good harvest however none of the NHS blurb or briefings mentioned abnormal dreams etc – perhaps a good thing!? Getting back to normal now though. Fight the good fight!

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