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Old Fri Jul 20, 2007, 04:18 AM
Lisa V Lisa V is offline
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how do you decrease the dosis ? I mean you can skip a shot, do you just give half shots or three/third or whatever ? Do you discuss that with your hem ?
Celebrations- We discussed it with our hem/onc and he said we could either cut the weekly dose in half or skip every other week. We had tried skipping weeks once before and his Hgb had dropped and never came back up again (until after he had a second ATG), so we decided it would be better to try cutting the doses in half. We have been working with the hem/onc dept. pharmacist and he has been willing to pre-load the syringes for us under sterile conditions so that I won't have to pierce the same vial twice. After doing that for a couple of months his Hgb has stayed in a good range so now we're giving the half doses AND skipping weeks too. So far so good!
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-Lisa, husband Ken age 60 dx SAA 7/04, dx hypo MDS 1/06 w/finding of trisomy 8; 2 ATGs, partial remission, still using cyclosporine
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