Thread: Fluid retention
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Old Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:08 PM
Rentzi Rentzi is offline
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Fluid retention

I am hoping some of you can shed some light on this. Since my husband finished the prednisone, he has been retaining lots of fluid in his lower legs. (Plus2). He has been elevating them and wrapping them with ace bandages. They go down some at night but fill up in the day. We are three months post ATG. His recent counts are wbc 1.8, hg 8.3, anc 860, platelets 40. It has been two weeks since his last transfusion but numbers seem stagnant. It is so hard to be patient. Oh, his creatinine was 1.6- slightly elevated. I think he was dehydrated from the traveling to Mayo clinic. Please advise on the swelling. Thank you.
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Melissa- wife to Rory 45, dx VSAA , 8-11-2014. Thymoma, ATG and cyclosporine
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