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ATG doesn't leave you permanently immune suppressed.
You will be immune suppressed while receiving the ATG. It will knock out all your counts so you will be neutropenic, but you will be in isolation at the hospital during this time. My ANC was above 1.0 within a week of receiving the ATG, but everyone is different.
Of course, if you do ATG with Cyclosporine, you will be immune suppressed while taking the Cyclosporine.
If you mention that you have a bone marrow failure disease that may be aplastic anemia, they should schedule you in really fast at Sunnybrook. That has been my experience...one of the benefits of the disease I guess.
Good luck and don't procrastinate! If there is an auto-immune attack going on, you want to act fast to avoid irreversible damage.
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55 yo female, dx 9/08, AA/hypo-MDS, subclinical PNH, ATG/CsA 12/08, partial response. small trisomy 6 clone, low-dose cyclosporine dependent
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