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Old Fri Jul 29, 2011, 11:29 AM
Ryan Jay Ryan Jay is offline
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A couple more things

700 mg daily sounds a little high to me, so it was probably good to take him down a bit. I´m 6,4 260 pounds and 325 daily is enough for me. But everyone is a little different.

Some doctors still believe in giving patients a mega-dose of cyclosporine at the beginning; others disagree.

At one of the conferences, a "famous" doctor told us that he brings the Cyclosporine down slowly (25 mg per 2/3 months) meanwhile he keeps montoring the patient's CBCs. If he sees a clinically significant drop in the counts, he'll bring the Cyclosporine dose back up to about 50 mgs above the nadir.

So, let's say you got down to 75 mgs daily, and your counts started to dip, he'd pop you back up to 125.
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Ryan Jay: 38-yo, dx SAA: 7/25/10, ATG: 8/10/10. CR with counts still rising. HGB: 13, Plt: 137 WBC 5.1 ANC
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