[Marlene]

I would also find out if they checked your B12, folate, b6, iron and copper serum level lately. All can effect your blood production. Your B12 should be at least 500. Many will tell you it's ok if it's between 200 and 500 but that is based on out-of-date information. It needs to be above 500 especially in the presence of symptoms like yours. And it is so easy to correct a low B12 level through oral supplementation. Always ask them for the specific results so you can judge for yourself if you think you need to bring up those levels.

Chemotherapy depletes nutrients and will disrute your body's balance. John too had shingles and his nutritionist said that it is tied to insufficient levels of the "b" vitamins. So we added in a B complex and extra methyl-colbamine form of B12. B vitamins are needed for healthy nerves and blood.

Zoe makes a good point about what your counts were before chemo. It would be good to have a baseline of everything when you were "healthy", when you were diagnosed with cancer and then what it is now. Unfortuately, docs never check vitamin status when we're healthy and not even when were ill. So what's optimal/normal for you when healthy may be well above a "low normal" test result when you're not healthy. IMO, I think this is one area overlooked by docs these days.

Marlene