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Hi All,
After having pneumonia and being hospitalized from 11/8 to 11/13 my blood counts have started a rapid increase.
I've been on low dose Dacogen, one infusion per week for 6 of the last 9 weeks. Also continuing to use thalidomide and Promacta(for platelets). My platelets are now at 65, WBC at 2.8, and Hgb increasing to 7.9 (it was in the 8's prior to the pneumonia)
My doctor thinks the thalidomide may be working in concert with the low dose Dacogen. It's a rather complicated drug schedule but since it seems to be working at the moment we aren't changing anything yet. 
I'm fairly confident that the blasts are being reduced by the drugs otherwise the counts would not be increasing.
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Kirby71, RAEB2 dx 2/04, Thalidomide 30 mo, Revlimid 18 mo, No resp Vidaza
6/09 2nd Thalid use, Promacta, Lowdose Dacogen added 10/09 at 40% blasts. 5/11 BMB-blasts 8%.
2/11 2nd Revl restart=good resp, Platelets drop 6/11, 3rd Thalid,+Nplate+Dacogen. 7/12 Cnts stable for 10 mo.
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