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Sarah,
HBC looks a lot like it is your hemoglobin level, which the normal level is 13.5 to 17.5 for women, wbc is your white blood count - at 1970, it is low, normal is 4500 to 11000, and normal platelet count is from 150,000 to 450,000 total. When you drop below 50,000 platelets, you tend to bruise easily and get hematomas or bumps under the skin with the bruise. Prednisone and cyclosporine can worsen the symptoms while helping the counts improve. I have never taken cyclosporine, but I do know that prednisone, especially in higher doses can give you boundless energy, make it hard to sleep, and at the same time make you weak. Prednisone will also cause your heart rate to accelerate and feel as if it is beating out of your chest at times.
Hypocellular marrow is one of the components of diagnosing SAA, it basically means that instead of having a marrow appropriate for your age, you have a little less available to produce blood cells, resulting in cytopenias - shortages - of red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells. Normal cellularity is measured by a rule of thumb 100 minus your age. If you were 40 years old, your marrow would be expected to be about 60% cellularity, give or take a few percent.
As always, you should definitely seek out more information from doctors that are skilled in handling SAA cases to get the best help possible. Hopefully this gives you a little more to work with when you see the doctor.
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MDS RCMD w/grade 2-3 fibrosis. Allo-MUD Feb 26, 2014. Relapsed August 2014. Free and clear of MDS since November 2014 after treatment with Vidaza and Rituxan. Experiencing autoimmune attack on CNS thought to be GVHD, some gut, skin and ocular cGVHD. Neuropathy over 80% of body.
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