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Reviewer: pac1952, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I have been on hizentra since April. The last two months I have had joint aches, pain, so tired, fogginess. I'm assuming it is from the drug.
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Reviewer: Elizabeth, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Caregiver)
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Migraine headaches, fever, and vomiting 3-4 days after infusion for my 11 year old son with an immune deficiency. It has been horrible!
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Reviewer: carltonowen, 55-64 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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I have using using it since it came out and I been giving myself injections for over two years . I do get head aches but take something before I start . The site does stay soar between injections . No major difficulties . Takes about one hour and twenty minutes and I hav to use longer needles because I have gone an excercise and diet rountine so the hizentra was running back out of the sites . So
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Reviewer: ang1965, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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this medicine hizentra, never been on anything else , been on it for 7 months, been the WORST 7 months of my life,....its easy to do, price sky high, fatique i agree is like being in a coma, aches, pains, all my teeth started decaying, i barely can move till my next infusion, idk,....im bought to give up, now i need major teeth work, im 45 yrs old, side effects for me are horrible, just being hone
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Reviewer: crae1966, 35-44 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I had every side effect possible with fatigue that is like being in a comma. I could not move until the next treatment. The stomach site was horrible. I had lumps, bloated ect. bruised. you name it I got it. No thanks.... crae1966
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