Anyone get chest pain after Remicade Infusion?

[Mountaingem]

I've been in the MOTHER of all flares so my GI doubled my dose of Remicade. After I had my last infusion for about a week I had chest pain on my left side, starting the day after, going down my left arm, which incidentally is the arm I had the infusion in.

It improved every day but it was a little disturbing. My GP checked my heart-everything was fine, but BP was really high-which she attributes to the stress of the flare and the huge amounts of pred I've been on. I also have been really tired and my muscles ache and cramp bad enough to take Flexeril. I got terrible charlie-horse cramps in my calves as well.


Has anyone here have this happen? Anything I can do to avoid having it happen again? Please help-my next infusion is Thursday. Any advice is welcome guys-thanks for listening! :thumright:

 

[rygon]

Ive heard it is one of the side effects, unfortunately i dont think theres much you can do

 

[Mountaingem]

Thanks Rygon-apparently my doctor expected it this time. He instructed the nurse to have me take Tylenol and Benadryl every four hours for the first three days. So far, so good.

 

[rygon]

cool, glad they have sorted you out. Hope it sorts oyu ouyt. btw I thought benadryl was a hayfever tablet lol?

 

[Trev]

i had bad chest pains after both infusions, the doc said they could give me something for the pain, but it would give me a bad headache. i didn't want to swap one pain for another. i also lost the muscles in the back of my legs and couldn't stand for a couple of days.

 

[Lydia]

cool, glad they have sorted you out. Hope it sorts oyu ouyt. btw I thought benadryl was a hayfever tablet lol?

Its an antihistamine, to prevent a reaction to the remicade. They usually give it as a pre-med along with some kind of steroid to prevent an allergic reaction.