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serum sickness
Hi everyone:
I have been tapering off the prednisone and the joint pains have returned. I have been going to the hospital every other day for platelet transfusions and sometimes red cells. Yesterday my platelets were "1", last week they were between 5 - 6. I'm not getting rigors anymore unless they give me platelets other then 0+ or 0-. THe HLA platelets didn't seem to make a difference. And they said I have no antibodies, even though I have had sooo many platelet transfusions. THe white cells are 3.4 with ANC 1600, red cell droppingnow at 8.5 but I had a transfusion of them on FRiday. I was doing okay until I took the exjade. But now it should be out of my system but my counts have not come back. I was reading Ryan's story in the AA bulletin and he had EPO injections. I never heard of them before. Has anyone? My doctor want me to go for a BMT but it's only been 3 1/2 months since the rabbit ATG. I had a bad reaction to Prograf, hyper, shaking, and itchy, and I was only taking a quarter of the doseage, so I stopped taking it. I was better before the ATG. Lynn
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