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Just undergoing my first immunoglobulin infusion - had to laugh as the nurse went through the possible side effects - shivering, headache, nausea and the best ' a sense of impeding doom' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣- that's ok then, that's my familiar

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Love the humour!

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Easy peasy- no reaction at all. The nurse mentioned I might experience an itch all over / I've had that when they treated me for CMV in ICU - that was torture, so I was dreading that eventuality. Anyway doom remains pending.

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