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Old Sat Sep 25, 2010, 03:02 PM
KimO KimO is offline
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How long to wait for cyclosporine

It's now been about a month since Shauna relapsed. The docs had to wait a week of that to make sure we had a "trend" before restarting Cyclosporine. She's now been on it for about three weeks and the drop seems to have stabilized --- platelets dropping from 150 -- 92 -- 75 -- 47 before and then 44 -- 41 since. Hgb is holding steady in the 11 ish range but ANC is down to .6.

The doctor said Thursday that he was going to give her one more week before recommending we repeat ATG. I'd like opinions on whether it's too soon to declare the cyclo not working. She had only been it 2.5 weeks at that point. He did have to back her down to 200 mg 2x a day from 300 mg 2x a day because the trough value was too high.

Thoughts anyone?
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