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Old Fri Jun 7, 2013, 04:30 PM
4bcsboys 4bcsboys is offline
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Chirley,
I noticed too a difference in my response to low hemaglobin levels. I seem to get symptomatic when it gets to 8.5, once even at 9.1. When I described my slow thinking, something "just not right", and scaring one of the nurses in the ICU (I'm a pharmacist) when I was 9.1 they transfused me. It seems that I notice a quickened heart rate lately prior to feeling dizzy or short of breath. But, I'm 5 years older than I was when first diagnosed, and I was transfusion free for over 4 years. I got the hematologist to agree to not let me go below 8.5 because I really scared some folks at work and almost hit the floor a couple of times. I've wondered about the age-related thing.
Mary
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Wife and mother of three young boys, diagnosed at age 39 with AA 2007; treated with ATG and cyclosporine; progressed to MDS end of 2012; MUD on June 26, 2013.
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